What is Pursuit AI research?
Last updated: September 4, 2026
Quick Answer
Pursuit AI research is a set of research columns Pursuit has already run across its entire entity universe. Add one to a worksheet and the values appear immediately, with no credits spent and no run time. The starting set covers Budget Cycle, Operating Budget, Sworn Officer Count, Number of Dispatch Seats, and Calls for Service.
What This Is
Nearly every team researches the same handful of operational fields on every account. Pursuit runs those prompts once across the entity universe and publishes the results as shared columns. You import the column instead of running the prompt, so the answer is already there when you add it. Accuracy improves for everyone as Pursuit refines the underlying prompts.
How It Works
Adding a column
In a Research worksheet, open the Add Column menu and select a Pursuit AI research column. Values populate for every entity in the worksheet that Pursuit has already researched.
What it costs
Nothing. Pursuit AI research columns consume no research credits and start no run. Your credits stay available for the custom prompts only your team needs. See "How to see where your credits went".
How the set grows
Pursuit expands the library based on the prompts customers run most often. If your team researches the same field on every account, tell your Customer Success Manager. Recurring prompts are the candidates for the shared set.
What It Doesn't Do
You cannot edit the prompt behind a Pursuit AI research column, because the same column serves every customer. When you need a field defined your way, or a field the shared set does not cover, build a custom AI column instead. See "Creating a Custom AI Prompt".
An entity Pursuit has not yet researched for a given field returns an empty cell rather than a run in progress.
Next Step
Open a Research worksheet, add a Pursuit AI research column, and compare it against the custom prompts your team already runs on every account. Anything that overlaps is a credit you no longer need to spend.