4 November 2025
A Smarter Way to Research: How to Use Magic Researcher on Evolve
The Evolve platform is planning to offer a way to make research reports faster and more efficient through our Magic Researcher Agent.
Academic research often involves hours of reading, organising, and writing before any real insights emerge. Magic Researcher is an intelligent assistant powered by GPT-5 that helps you plan, explore, and write structured research reports automatically.
This guide explains what Magic Researcher does and how you will be able to use it to support your own research projects.
🧠What Is Magic Researcher?
Magic Researcher is an AI-powered research assistant designed to help academics and students create high-quality reports with minimal effort. It works by breaking a research task into several stages — planning, analysis, writing, and final assembly — all guided by AI.
Rather than producing a single response, Magic Researcher carries out a full research process, reviewing sources, developing ideas, and drafting a multi-section report based on your chosen topic or question.
🧩 Getting Started
To create your own research project using Magic Researcher you will be able to follow these steps once it is available:
- Open Evolve and navigate to Agents → Magic Researcher.
- Click Execute to start a new project.
- Complete the short form:
- Execution Title – a clear project title.
- Rounds and Sections – how detailed you want the process to be (10 is a good standard choice).
- Research Request – your topic or guiding question, written in full sentences.
Example: “Explore how artificial intelligence is influencing academic writing standards in higher education.”
- Click Run and allow the process to complete. Each stage will be marked as finished in sequence.
- When all steps are done, download your Final Report from the results screen.
⚙️ How It Works
When you are able to launch Magic Researcher on Evolve, it will follow a clear, step-by-step process:
- Initial Setup – The system prepares your project and reads your research request.
- Initial Analysis – It interprets your topic and plans a logical approach.
- Research Rounds – The AI conducts several rounds of research and reflection, improving its findings each time. (in the screenshot the rounds were 10; which made the sections in the report 10 as well)
- Outline Creation – It builds a clear structure for your report.
- Section Writing – Each section (for example, Introduction, Methods, Findings, or Discussion) is written in sequence.
- Assembly and Export – All sections are combined into a polished report ready for download.
At the end of the process, you’ll have a complete, well-organised draft that you can refine, reference, and submit for review.
đź’ˇ Tips for Best Results
- Be clear and specific about what you want the AI to explore.
- Use academic phrasing in your research request (as if writing a proposal).
- Choose the right scale — more rounds mean deeper research, while fewer rounds suit short overviews.
- Review and refine the final report; treat it as a strong first draft to edit and expand with your own insights.
- Acknowledge AI assistance according to your institution’s research and ethics policy.
Conclusion
Magic Researcher will make it easier than ever to move from an idea to a structured research draft. By automating much of the groundwork, it will allow academics to spend more time interpreting data, drawing conclusions, and adding original thought — the parts of research that truly matter.
Whether you’re preparing a literature review, exploring a new topic area, or drafting a research proposal, Magic Researcher will help you work more efficiently and creatively.