Capstone: a Deep Research report, end to end

🎯Goal. Run Gemini's agentic Deep Research on a real topic from your work: approve its plan, watch it search the web (and optionally your Google data), and turn the report into something you'll actually use.

1. 1Select Deep Research and review the plan. Deep Research is an agentic feature: it first creates a personalized multi-step research plan. Read it and refine it before approving — this is where you steer scope.
2. 2Let it run, then read it work. It automatically searches the web — and, if you allow it, your Gmail, Drive, and Google Chat — across many sites, and you can follow along as it analyses what it finds. It runs on Gemini's current top model (Gemini 3) and produces a comprehensive report in minutes, with an optional audio summary.
3. 3Trick: send the report to Canvas to make it usable. Hand the finished report into Canvas (Lesson 5) and convert it into a slide-ready infographic, an interactive quiz for a journal club, or a one-page brief — turning a wall of text into a deliverable. Always open the cited sources before you rely on the findings.

✓You'll see. An approved research plan, a live view of the agent searching and analysing, and a multi-section sourced report on your real topic — optionally reshaped into a brief or infographic in Canvas.

💳Cost. Deep Research is available on the free tier; paid Google AI plans give higher usage limits (more reports, more often) and early access to advanced reasoning like Deep Think on Ultra.

💡Takeaway. Deep Research is a research analyst you direct: approve the plan, let it browse and synthesize, verify the sources, then turn the report into a usable deliverable in Canvas.