Research

Run an architecture decision as an evidence-table research project in Claude

To settle a disputed retrieval-design question for a large enterprise search system, the author kept one Claude Project running for several days with the constraints, past pilots and evaluation setup loaded in. Claude had to update a table of claims, sources and conflicts before writing any conclusion, and to stop and show conflicting numbers rather than average them, which produced a report the author could defend in a design review.

Tool

Claude (Opus, Projects and Artifacts)

Source

@vantage_vt on X

Source date

Aug 25, 2026

Credit: this use case was shared by @vantage_vt on X. Summary written by Kitbox; see the original for full details.

Try it yourself

Our own starter prompt. Fill in the brackets, then paste it into Claude or your agent of choice.

We need to decide between [option A] and [option B] for [system]. Our hard constraints are [list]. Keep an evidence table with columns claim, source, primary or secondary, confidence, and conflict flag, and update it before writing any analysis. Ignore benchmarks that don't publish their method. If two sources disagree, show the conflict and stop instead of blending them, and don't recommend anything until I approve the table.