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title: ToolRouter — Workflow
description: A multi-tool workflow showing how to combine ToolRouter tools for a complex task.
url: https://toolrouter.com/workflows/industry-trend-report
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# Industry Trend Report

Produce an industry trend report by gathering market data, conducting deep analysis, and creating trend visualizations.

This workflow generates forward-looking industry trend reports that help organizations anticipate market shifts. It starts with broad web research to surface the latest industry data, analyst opinions, and emerging signals from multiple authoritative sources.

Deep research synthesizes these signals into structured trend analyses with clear drivers, timelines, and impact assessments. The charting step makes trends tangible with growth curves and market shift visualizations, producing a report that is both analytically rigorous and visually compelling.

**Tools:** web-search, deep-research, generate-chart
**Category:** data

## Steps

### 1. Gather Industry Data

Search for recent industry reports, analyst publications, and trend data from authoritative sources.

- **Tool:** web-search
- **Skill:** search
- **Input:** Industry-specific search queries targeting trend data and reports
- **Output:** Search results with links to industry reports, statistics, and expert commentary

### 2. Deep Trend Analysis

Conduct thorough analysis of identified trends, evaluating their drivers, timeline, impact magnitude, and likelihood of continuation.

- **Tool:** deep-research
- **Skill:** research
- **Input:** Industry data and trend signals from web search results
- **Output:** Structured trend analysis with drivers, projections, and impact assessments

### 3. Trend Visualizations

Create visual representations of industry trends including growth curves, adoption S-curves, and market share shifts.

- **Tool:** generate-chart
- **Skill:** create_chart
- **Input:** Quantitative trend data and projections from the analysis
- **Output:** Trend charts showing growth trajectories, market shifts, and forecast visualizations

## Benefits

- Surfaces emerging trends from multiple authoritative sources
- Provides structured analysis with drivers and impact assessments
- Creates forward-looking projections and forecasts
- Generates publication-ready trend visualizations
