I have recently found myself drawing parallels between deep research and knowledge working org structures.

For example,board exec asks senior exec a question about a particular product. The senior exec then has to fire off emails to say 5 managers, who might go down their tree to ICs, all the info is gathered and synthesised into a response.

Normally this response takes into account some angle the senior exec might have.

A lot of knowledge working tasks follow this pattern that I have somewhat simplified.