I tracked every hour I spent on research for a month. The result was humiliating: 40 hours per week. Not analysis. Not strategy. Just gathering, formatting, and cross-referencing data. 18 hours: web search and data gathering 12 hours: copy-paste and formatting 8 hours: cross-referencing sources 2 hours: actual analysis and decision-making I was spending €200 per hour on data entry. So I rebuilt the entire workflow. Today I spend four hours per week on research. The other 36 are automated. This article is a technical breakdown of how that works. Why Research is the Hardest Task to Automate Research is not a single task.…