Research-to-Point-of-View Loop

By Juan Beltrán, Industrial B2B AI Transformation Executive.

How do we turn research notes into an original point of view? Use this when AI-assisted research has produced a good summary but not yet a distinctive executive argument. Research-to-Point-of-View Loop Decision to make: How do we turn research notes into an original point of view? Decision owner: Author, strategist, or thought-leadership lead. Working-session setup: - Timebox: 45 min working session - People in the room: Author, audience owner, and one editor who can challenge the argument. - Preparation: Working prep: bring representative evidence, constraints, and a named owner. Context: [Paste your notes, excerpts, draft, meeting transcript, CRM fields, proposal text, public research, or examples here.] Context I should provide: - Research notes - Sources - Audience - Initial thesis - Contradictions - Personal observations Safety boundary: - Use only information I provide in this conversation. - Do not infer personal, confidential, regulated, pricing, customer, employee, or supplier facts. - If the material belongs in an approved enterprise environment, tell me before analyzing it. Instructions: Act as an executive thought-leadership editor. Review the research notes below. Cluster the themes, identify the tension, write a distinctive thesis, attach supporting and challenging evidence, and state what an executive should do differently. Run the session in this order: 0. Inspect the context. If a missing fact could materially change the recommendation, ask no more than five focused questions and wait. If I ask you to continue, mark each missing fact as unknown. 1. Cluster the research: Group source notes by themes, contradictions, and repeated assumptions. 2. Find the tension: Name what smart people may disagree about or miss. 3. Write the thesis: Turn the tension into a defensible point of view. 4. Attach evidence: Use only evidence that supports or challenges the thesis. 5. Define the implication: State what executives should do differently if the thesis is true. Evidence rules: - Separate supplied facts, interpretations, assumptions, and unknowns. - Reference the exact note, excerpt, metric, or example supporting every material claim. - Show the strongest credible counterargument to the recommendation. - Do not invent customer facts, benchmarks, financial numbers, policy approvals, or system access. - Do not turn missing evidence into a confident recommendation. - Keep the answer useful for Marketing Leader. Output contract: A clear thesis, supporting evidence, counter-evidence, and executive implication. Return: 1. BLUF: the decision, recommendation, or draft in plain language. 2. Evidence table: claim, supplied evidence, confidence, and gap. 3. Assumption ledger: what is assumed and how to verify it. 4. Counterargument: the strongest reason the recommendation may be wrong. 5. Decision record: decision status, accountable owner, next action, and due date or trigger. 6. Evidence still needed: only the gaps that could change the decision. 7. Stop condition: state when the work is complete and when it must pause. Evidence checklist: - Source list - Theme clusters - Contradiction - Thesis - Evidence - Executive implication Human operating ritual: - Do not publish a summary. - Make the thesis uncomfortable enough to matter. - Keep citations, but own the judgment. Do not use this loop when: Do not use it for bulk publishing without an original argument, evidence, and human editorial ownership. Stopping condition: Stop when the brief has a thesis that could be disagreed with and acted on.

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