# Research a niche, a competitor or a topic before you write the post > Source: https://tareno.co/agents/use-cases/research-before-you-write > Language: en > Use an AI agent such as Manus to research public boards, hashtags, sources and catalogs, find the gaps in your own account and draft posts for them. You approve every request in Tareno. ## Short answer **Can an AI agent research a topic and then draft posts for the gaps?** Yes. A research-oriented agent reads public pages you point it at, compares what it finds with your own posts that Tareno can list, and drafts posts for the topics you have not covered. It reports how much it could read, learns from public content without copying it, and leaves approval to you in Tareno. Most accounts post what they happen to have, not what their audience looks for. Research closes that gap but takes hours: reading public boards, hashtag timelines, catalogs and trade pages, then comparing them with your own history. Agents built for long research tasks do the reading, and Tareno supplies the other half, your own posts. The pattern works in a clinic, a stationery shop, a festival and a bookstore. The rule that makes it acceptable is the same in each: learn which topics exist, never copy how someone else expressed them. ## The same job in four industries - **Healthcare:** A physiotherapy clinic studies local competitors' public Facebook posts and finds topics none of them cover. - **Design:** An invitation designer maps ten public Pinterest boards and finds a theme she has not pinned. - **Events:** A folk festival checks which hashtags its audience uses on Mastodon before choosing two or three. - **Retail:** A bookshop researches five books on a theme and verifies each title and year against a catalog. ## How it works 1. Give the agent a list of public sources and a time window, and ask how many it could actually read. 2. Compare with your own posts, which Tareno can list on networks that expose them. A gap only counts if you have not covered it. 3. Ask for ideas and angles, not copies. A pin or post should show your work and use your words. 4. Draft for one gap first, publish it and look at the result before you build a series. ## Guides that put it to work - [Can Manus research local competitors on Facebook and draft your Page posts?](https://tareno.co/agents/manus/facebook): Competitor research for a local clinic, drafted into Page posts. - [Can Manus research a wedding niche on Pinterest and draft pins for the gaps?](https://tareno.co/agents/manus/pinterest): A niche map from public boards, compared with your own pins. - [Can Manus research which hashtags a festival's audience uses on Mastodon?](https://tareno.co/agents/manus/mastodon): Hashtag research for a festival on public timelines. - [Can Manus research five books on a topic and write a Bluesky reading-list thread?](https://tareno.co/agents/manus/bluesky): A researched reading-list thread with verified details. - [Can Manus compile a weekly industry digest and prepare it as Threads posts?](https://tareno.co/agents/manus/threads): A weekly industry digest with a named source for every item. - [Can Manus plan your X posts around a conference you are speaking at?](https://tareno.co/agents/manus/x): A conference post plan built from the organizer's pages. ## What to watch out for - Public content shows what exists, not what performs. Reaction counts are not appointments or sales. - Never reuse another account's image or sentences. - Custom connections are needed for some agents today. Check what your plan allows. ## Questions ### Is it acceptable to study competitors' public posts? Learning which topics and formats exist is ordinary research. Copying images or wording is not. The guides tell the agent to summarize themes and never to describe a specific post. ### Can the agent see how competitors' posts performed? No. It sees what is publicly visible, not analytics. A topic that appears often suggests interest, and one test post is a better check than any assumption. ### How does the agent know what I have already posted? On networks where Tareno lists posts, it reads them, including posts created outside Tareno. On others it only knows what you tell it, and the guides say which is which. ### Which agents are suited to research tasks? Manus is built for long research tasks and has a guide for each network. Any agent with web access can do the reading, but the discipline of counting sources and checking against your own history should be the same. ## Related - [Manus × Tareno](https://tareno.co/agents/manus) - [Analytics reports](https://tareno.co/features/analytics-reports) - [Approval workflows](https://tareno.co/features/approval-workflows) - [Read the replies to a post and turn them into a decision](https://tareno.co/agents/use-cases/read-replies-and-triage) - [Check a claim against its source before it becomes a post](https://tareno.co/agents/use-cases/check-facts-before-posting) - [Publish photos and slides with image descriptions that are checked](https://tareno.co/agents/use-cases/photos-with-image-descriptions) Approval model: Tareno saves drafts directly. Scheduling, publishing, edits to scheduled posts and deletions become pending actions that a person approves in the Tareno dashboard; no agent can approve them.