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Competitive product teardowns

Structure teardown notes and feature matrices for boards, printers, and tools.

Photos and measurements first. AI organizes; it must not invent internals you did not open.

Preferred / primary

Hybrid Research

Obsidian + AI plugins

Local-first notes vault with optional AI plugins (cloud or local backends).

In this stack: Teardown log as Markdown with photos.

Web LLM / chat

Claude

Anthropic models strong at long-context writing, code review, and careful analysis.

In this stack: Feature matrix from your notes only.

Supporting tools

Hybrid Research

Excel / Sheets + LLM

Spreadsheet as system of record; LLM helps formulas, cleanup, and explanations.

In this stack: Comparison tables and scoring.

App / desktop Image

Photoroom

Product photo background removal and studio-like shots for shops.

In this stack: Clean photos for the write-up.

Web Research

Perplexity

Answer engine oriented around cited web research.

In this stack: Background on the product line — verify.

Stacks are editorial starting points — swap tools when policy, budget, or hardware demands it.