You know the drill. A meeting pops up with a name you half recognize, and you spend the next half hour opening LinkedIn, company pages, old press, and whatever else you can find. You end up with fragments, not a clear view. That scramble shows up in the room. You ask generic questions, miss obvious angles, and leave information on the table. The fix is simple. Walk in with a tight brief that tells you who they are and what they care about right now. Research ~5 min to run Research a Person Before a Meeting Vic prompt Use Vic to research a person before a meeting Purpose A human analyst requires roughly 30 minutes for the same open-web research. This task completes the brief in about 5 minutes so you arrive prepared without the manual search time. Inputs Persons Name Required Affiliation Optional Context Optional Outputs An in-chat brief with a header containing name, title, company, and contact links, plus At-a-Glance summary, What They Care About Now section, fact-paired talking points, Background Snapshot, and numbered Sources list. Time saved Turns roughly 30 minutes of manual research into about 5 minutes. How it works Run the task with a name and, if you have it, an affiliation and a bit of context. Say: Use Vic to research a person before a meeting . That is enough for a useful brief. Extra context like the asset type or the purpose of the call helps shape the talking points, but it is optional. Vic searches open web sources and returns a scannable brief in chat. The header gives you the basics: name, current title, company, and contact links where available. Below that is an At a Glance summary you can read in under a minute before you join. The section that earns its keep is "What They Care About Now." It pulls recent signals about focus areas and priorities so you can steer the conversation. If someone has been active around a product type, a market, or a strategic shift, you see it without hunting. You also get three to four fact paired talking points. Each point ties a concrete fact to a way to engage, so you are not guessing at relevance. These are meant to be used. They are short, specific, and easy to drop into a call. The Background Snapshot rounds things out with career context and prior roles. It is enough to understand how they got here without turning into a resume dump. Every non obvious claim carries a numbered source citation, and the brief ends with a Sources list so you can click through if you want to double check or go deeper. The format matters. This is built for quick review, not reading. You can scan the header and At a Glance, pick one or two talking points, and be ready. If you have more time, the citations are there. For anyone in acquisitions, brokerage, asset management, or sponsorship, this replaces the pre call scramble. A human analyst would take around 30 minutes to assemble the same open web picture. This runs in about five minutes and gives you a cleaner output. There is a discipline benefit too. When prep is easy, you do it every time. Over a week of meetings, that adds up to better questions, fewer missed cues, and tighter follow ups. You are not trying to remember where you saw something or whether it was current. It is in front of you, with sources. Keep it simple. Enter the person’s name, add context if you have it, and run the task. Read the brief once before the meeting. Pick a couple of angles and use them. That is usually enough to change the tone of the conversation.