Unscary

An iPhone app by B43

faster research with verification habits

AI makes research faster; verification habits make it trustworthy. Professionals need both, and the second is the actual skill.

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The Unscary AI Learn tab: a greeting reading “Welcome back, Sarah”, a Monday-to-Friday week strip showing a self-chosen bar of three lessons a week, and a highlighted next lesson, “What is AI, really?”, with a Start button.

What the research says

“Doing research or finding information about a specific topic (57% of workers who have used AI chatbots at work say they've done this)”
Doing research or finding information is the most common workplace use of AI chatbots among workers who use them. Source: www.pewresearch.org
“According to a McKinsey report, employees spend 1.8 hours every day—9.3 hours per week, on average—searching and gathering information.”
Employees spend roughly 1.8 hours per day — 9.3 hours a week — searching and gathering information, per a widely cited McKinsey figure. Source: cottrillresearch.com
“Among workers who use AI chatbots regularly, 54% say they've been highly helpful in speeding up their work and 41% say they've been highly helpful in improving their work quality.”
Regular AI chatbot users report strong gains in speed and quality of work. Source: www.pewresearch.org

You know the drill: an open question, a browser full of tabs, an afternoon gone. Research consistently finds knowledge workers spending a large slice of the week just searching and gathering information. AI chat tools can compress that dramatically — doing research is already their single most common workplace use — but speed without verification just produces wrong answers faster.

Where the hours actually go

Studies of knowledge work keep landing on the same pattern: a substantial share of the working week disappears into hunting for information — the report someone sent, the figure buried in a deck, the context behind a decision. That is precisely the work AI tools are best positioned to compress, which is why research and information-finding lead surveys of workplace AI use.

The real skill is verifying, not searching

Fast answers are cheap; answers you can put your name on are the product. The professional-grade habits: ask for sources and check that they exist, cross-check surprising claims, separate what the tool knows from what it is guessing, and keep a record of what you verified. Workers who use AI tools regularly report real gains in speed and quality — verification is what makes those gains safe to act on.

A builder step in the Unscary AI app. The exercise reads “Now add the part that was missing,” showing a mock chat with a support-reply request and an empty Context slot, and a field below where the member writes the context to add.

Practicing until verification is a reflex

Unscary turns B43's in-person company training into short lessons and hands-on reps: run a research task with AI, then verify it — trace the claim, spot the fabrication, tighten the synthesis. Points and streaks build the routine, and your personal progress report shows both speed and rigor improving together.

The bottom line

Faster research is available to anyone with a chat window. Trustworthy fast research is a skill — a small set of habits practiced until they are automatic. That is what Unscary is for.

Build research habits you can put your name on.

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