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# AI-powered research boards with Portal Agent

> Use Portal Agent to research any topic, find images, and automatically build organized research boards and moodboards on your canvas in one prompt.

Portal Agent can do your research for you. Give it a topic and it searches the web, finds relevant images, creates cards for each result, and organizes everything on your canvas — all from a single prompt. The result is a fully built research board or moodboard ready for you to explore and refine, without leaving Portals.

## How the research workflow works

When you send Portal Agent a research prompt, it uses its web search and image search tools to gather content, then uses its canvas manipulation tools to place that content as organized cards. Multi-step execution means the agent handles the entire workflow — searching, retrieving images, creating cards, and positioning them — in one go.

<Steps>
  <Step title="Open Portal Agent">
    In Brainstorming mode, open the Portal Agent panel. Make sure you are in a workspace with web search enabled. The agent works on the infinite canvas, so you can zoom and pan to see the full board it builds.
  </Step>

  <Step title="Type a research prompt">
    Describe the topic you want to research. Be specific about the format you want — for example, whether you want a moodboard with images, a structured research board with summaries, or a mind map. See the example prompts below for inspiration.
  </Step>

  <Step title="Watch the agent build your board">
    Portal Agent runs its web search and image search tools, retrieves results, and progressively builds the board on your canvas. Cards appear as the agent works through the results. You can watch it happen in real time without any manual input.
  </Step>

  <Step title="Edit and refine">
    Once the board is complete, you can move, resize, delete, or edit any card directly on the canvas. You can also follow up with another prompt — for example, asking the agent to add more images, cluster cards by theme, or expand on a specific subtopic.
  </Step>
</Steps>

## Example prompts

Copy these prompts directly into Portal Agent to get started:

<Tabs>
  <Tab title="Trend research">
    ```text theme={null}
    Research the top UI design trends for 2025 and create a research board with key themes, examples, and images for each trend.
    ```
  </Tab>

  <Tab title="Moodboard">
    ```text theme={null}
    Create a moodboard for a minimalist Scandinavian interior design project. Find high-quality images of furniture, textures, and color palettes.
    ```
  </Tab>

  <Tab title="Competitive analysis">
    ```text theme={null}
    Research the top five project management apps and create a comparison board showing their key features, pricing, and target audiences.
    ```
  </Tab>

  <Tab title="Inspiration board">
    ```text theme={null}
    Research sustainable architecture and create a moodboard with images of green buildings, material textures, and biophilic design examples.
    ```
  </Tab>

  <Tab title="Topic overview">
    ```text theme={null}
    Give me an overview of the history of the Bauhaus movement. Create cards for each major period, key figures, and influential works with images.
    ```
  </Tab>
</Tabs>

## Moodboard creation

For image-focused research, phrase your prompt around visuals. Portal Agent's image search tool finds and places images directly onto the canvas as cards. Prompts like "create a moodboard for..." or "find images of..." signal to the agent that it should prioritize image search results over text summaries.

<CardGroup cols={2}>
  <Card title="Image-focused prompts" icon="image">
    Ask for moodboards, visual inspiration, texture boards, or color palettes to get an image-heavy board.
  </Card>

  <Card title="Text-focused prompts" icon="file-text">
    Ask for research boards, summaries, comparisons, or overviews to get cards with written content and citations.
  </Card>
</CardGroup>

<Note>
  Web search is subject to usage limits during the beta period. If you reach your limit, the agent will let you know and fall back to its existing knowledge for the remainder of the session.
</Note>