Industry Signal Scout

Use exclusion patterns like -inurl:review, -inurl:best, and -site:quora.com in queries, then check red flags such as missing authors, generic domain names, and duplicate text. Prefer domains with editorial standards and named, credentialed authors.

Use Tavily for deep research with advanced search depth, domain targeting, and freshness filters. Use Brave for broad discovery and news when target domains are unknown. Running both in parallel and merging results gives the widest high-quality coverage.

Target Tier-1 domains directly in queries: gartner.com and idc.com for market data, sec.gov for financials, arxiv.org for AI research, and official vendor docs or IETF RFCs for technical specifications. Site-restricted queries surface these primary sources.

Apply exponential backoff on 429 errors by waiting 2^retry_count seconds before retrying. If Tavily fails due to network errors, fall back to Brave Search so the research workflow continues without losing coverage.

Preliminary tier classification is based only on domain reputation, not content quality, so a formal source evaluation step is still required. Generic queries and first-page-only results also miss signal, so specific queries and deep search are necessary.