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title: ToolRouter — Use Case
description: Step-by-step guide for a real-world ToolRouter use case with agent-specific instructions.
url: https://toolrouter.com/tools/web-search/use-cases/research-industry-benchmarks
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# Research Industry Benchmarks

Benchmarks give you context for evaluating your own performance. Whether it is conversion rates, customer acquisition costs, churn percentages, or NPS scores, knowing the industry average helps you understand if you are ahead of or behind the curve. Without benchmarks, metrics are just numbers without meaning.

ToolRouter's search skill finds benchmark reports, industry surveys, and data compilations published across blogs, research firms, and industry organizations. The scholar_search skill adds peer-reviewed studies and academic surveys that provide rigorously validated benchmark data. Combining both sources gives you benchmarks you can trust.

This research is critical for setting KPIs, benchmarking during board presentations, validating business plans, and setting realistic targets for new initiatives. Having authoritative benchmark data strengthens every argument and decision it supports.

**Tool:** [Web Search](https://toolrouter.com/tools/web-search)
**Skills:** search, scholar_search

## Agent Guides

- [How to Research Industry Benchmarks with Claude](https://toolrouter.com/tools/web-search/use-cases/research-industry-benchmarks/claude): Guide for Claude
- [How to Research Industry Benchmarks with ChatGPT](https://toolrouter.com/tools/web-search/use-cases/research-industry-benchmarks/chatgpt): Guide for ChatGPT
- [How to Research Industry Benchmarks with Copilot](https://toolrouter.com/tools/web-search/use-cases/research-industry-benchmarks/copilot): Guide for Copilot
- [How to Research Industry Benchmarks with OpenClaw](https://toolrouter.com/tools/web-search/use-cases/research-industry-benchmarks/openclaw): Guide for OpenClaw
