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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.
AI web browser for macOS that reads your tabs and connected apps to brief you, synthesize info and answer questions across your work.
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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
- ✦AI that reasons across open tabs and connected apps
- ✦Morning Brief of calendar, inbox and links
- ✦Synthesis into reports and decks
- ✦Split view and organised tab groups
- ✦Work and personal profiles
- ✦Privacy controls with end-to-end encrypted Sync
- →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
- →Summarising and synthesising work context
- →Starting the day with an agenda brief
- →Answering questions across tools and tabs
- →Separating work and personal browsing