# Universal Deep Research: Bring Your Own Model and Strategy

## TL;DR

Universal Deep Research (UDR) is a flexible, user-configurable agentic system that allows users to craft and refine custom research strategies around any language model without extra training.

## Contribution

UDR introduces a generalist framework enabling customizable, strategy-agnostic deep research agents that do not require additional training or finetuning.

## Key findings

- UDR supports diverse research strategies including minimal, expansive, and intensive approaches.
- The system provides a user interface for easy experimentation and customization.
- UDR demonstrates versatility across different research tasks.

## Abstract

Deep research tools are among the most impactful and most commonly encountered agentic systems today. We observe, however, that each deep research agent introduced so far is hard-coded to carry out a particular research strategy using a fixed choice of tools. We introduce Universal Deep Research (UDR), a generalist agentic system that wraps around any language model and enables the user to create, edit, and refine their own entirely custom deep research strategies without any need for additional training or finetuning. To showcase the generality of our system, we equip UDR with example minimal, expansive, and intensive research strategies, and provide a user interface to facilitate experimentation with the system.