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All-in-one research platform for reading, writing and managing papers; high traffic.
Real-time web search and content-extraction API that grounds AI agents with fresh, structured data for research and RAG.
Managed cloud hosting and one-click deploy for the open-source OpenClaw personal AI assistant, on credit-based plans.
A fast, keyboard-driven Mac/Windows launcher with an extension store and built-in AI commands for power users who live in shortcuts.
Free all-in-one desktop AI app to chat with your documents and run RAG and AI agents fully local and private.
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- ✦AI Search
- ✦Literature Review
- ✦AI Writer
- ✦Reference Manager
- ✦Chat with PDF
- ✦Real-time web search API
- ✦Page content extraction and crawling
- ✦LLM-optimized structured/chunked output
- ✦Built-in PII and prompt-injection filtering
- ✦High-throughput, low-latency infrastructure
- ✦Drop-in integrations with major LLM providers
- ✦One-click managed cloud deployment
- ✦Self-hosting option on Mac mini, Windows or Linux
- ✦100+ app and messaging integrations
- ✦Choice of Claude, GPT, Gemini or local models
- ✦Credit-based monthly subscription plans
- ✦Modular skills/plugins
- ✦Extendable command-bar launcher for macOS and beta Windows support
- ✦Thousands of third-party extensions from a public store
- ✦Built-in AI chat and custom AI command automation
- ✦Clipboard history, window management, and calculator utilities
- ✦Text snippets and quicklinks for repetitive actions
- ✦Hotkeys and aliases for common apps and commands
- ✦Team plan for sharing snippets, quicklinks, and extensions
- ✦Chat with your documents (RAG)
- ✦Runs locally and offline for privacy
- ✦Supports any LLM (local or cloud)
- ✦Built-in AI agents
- ✦Handles PDFs, Word, CSV, codebases
- ✦No-code setup
- →Finding relevant research papers and getting research-backed answers.
- →Analyzing papers faster with accurate data extraction.
- →Generating and polishing academic content using AI.
- →Streamlining citation and reference management.
- →Grounding AI agents with live web data to reduce hallucination
- →Building research or retrieval-augmented generation (RAG) applications
- →Powering AI-driven search assistants
- →Enterprise-scale agents needing reliable web access
- →Run a hosted personal AI assistant without server upkeep
- →Connect an AI agent to messaging apps
- →Automate email, calendar and workflows
- →Self-host for full data control
- →Launching apps and running quick commands without leaving the keyboard
- →Automating repetitive text and file tasks with snippets and quicklinks
- →Getting AI answers or writing help without switching apps
- →Sharing productivity tooling and extensions across a team
- →Privately querying your own documents
- →Running local AI without the cloud
- →Building AI agents over your data
- →Using multiple LLM providers in one app