# Use research and community enrichment without losing your voice

Add external research and community evidence to a source-first ebook while keeping the author's own material in control.

Canonical: https://www.scribora.ai/docs/workflow/research-enrichment
Category: Workflow
Last reviewed: 2026-09-29

## Enrichment is for gaps and reality checks

Scribora can enrich a project with external context, including relevant community discussions where the workflow enables it. Use that layer to discover objections, terminology, examples, or questions that your private notes may not contain.

The enrichment layer should challenge and support the source set rather than replace it. If the finished chapter could have been written without any of your material, the project has drifted toward generic synthesis.

## What to look for

- Questions that recur across independent discussions.
- Real wording readers use for the problem.
- Counterexamples that expose an overconfident claim in your notes.
- Recent context that materially changes an older source.

## How community discovery is wired into the project

The Reddit discovery endpoint receives the topic, keywords, and audience context, and also reads the project's country and language. That allows discovery to prefer country-native communities instead of silently defaulting every project to US-centric sources.

The resulting subreddit set is stored back on the project before the asynchronous scrape runs. Gathered Reddit items can then be inspected and excluded before knowledge-base building.