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Schedule Research Tasks for Background Processing

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You need competitive intelligence by Monday. A market analysis by Wednesday. And a technology deep-dive by Friday. Doing this research yourself means days of tab-hopping. With Vox, you schedule all three as background tasks and check results when they're ready.

Queue up research

Computer, I need three research reports this week. First, analyze our top five competitors' pricing changes. Second, research market trends in AI developer tools for 2026. Third, do a deep dive on WebAssembly adoption in enterprise. Start all three as background tasks.

Vox — Task Queue
Task 1: Competitor pricing analysis — spawnedDone
Task 2: AI dev tools market trends — spawnedDone
Task 3: WebAssembly enterprise adoption — spawnedDone

Three background agents start working simultaneously. Each one plans its research strategy, searches the web, fetches relevant pages, and compiles findings into structured reports.

Check progress anytime

Computer, how are my research tasks going?

Vox

Task 1 (competitor pricing) is complete — report saved to your Desktop. Task 2 (market trends) is 70% done, currently analyzing three more sources. Task 3 (WebAssembly) is in the planning phase, estimating 15 minutes to completion.

Tip

Vox's task engine tracks status, progress, and completion for every background agent. Use search_tasks to see all active and completed tasks at any time.

Results that improve over time

Background agents learn from past tasks. After completing research, they store trigger-solution patterns — which sources were most reliable, what format you preferred, and which comparison frameworks worked best.

You

Do another competitor analysis next month.

Vox

I'll use the same framework from last month's analysis — the five companies, the pricing matrix format, and the feature comparison table you liked. I'll also check the three new sources I discovered last time.

Turn research into action

Computer, take the competitor pricing report and turn it into a presentation for the strategy meeting.

Computer, email the market trends summary to the leadership team.

Research flows directly into documents and communication. No intermediate steps, no copying between apps.


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