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DataVisor
✓ verifiedPaid
AI-native fraud and AML platform with real-time decisioning and cross-entity intelligence for banks, fintechs and payments.
19K visits/mo
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ExplainPaper
✓ verifiedFreemium
AI reading aid that explains highlighted passages of research papers in plain language to speed up dense academic reading.
56K visits/mo15K saves
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ChatPDF
✓ verifiedFreemium
Popular tool to chat with PDFs and other documents, giving summaries and cited answers, with a free daily tier and no-signup start.
1.8M visits/mo43K saves
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Outset.ai
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AI-moderated research platform for deep customer insights.
437K visits/mo5.8K saves
Pricing
Pay-as-you-go: 42.8% platform fee for corporate, 33.3% for academic/non-profit (no monthly fee)
Participant payment: minimum $8.00/hr, recommended $12.00/hr
No public pricing
Free: $0/mo
Pro: $16/mo
Free trial available
No public pricing
No public pricing
Core features
- ✦Access to a verified and engaged participant pool
- ✦Self-serve platform for easy task setup and launch
- ✦Tools for AI training and evaluation
- ✦Fair compensation for participants
- ✦Audience checker
- ✦Real-time AI fraud/AML decisioning
- ✦Adaptive ML detection engine
- ✦Cross-entity link analysis
- ✦AI agents incl. conversational 'Vera'
- ✦Investigation and reporting tools
- ✦Low-latency scoring at high QPS
- ✦Highlight-to-explain any text
- ✦Follow-up questions on a paper
- ✦Whole-paper summaries (Pro)
- ✦Math and figure explanations (Pro)
- ✦Zotero library import
- ✦Saved highlights and explanations
- ✦Chat with PDFs, Word, PowerPoint and text files
- ✦Summaries with cited sources
- ✦Multi-file chats via folders
- ✦Any-language upload and chat
- ✦Extra tools: AI writer, detector, flashcards, slides
- ✦No-signup quick start
- ✦AI-moderated interviews
- ✦AI synthesis and highlight reels
- ✦Customizable AI interviewer persona
- ✦Multimodal research (video, voice, text)
- ✦Flexible participant recruitment
- ✦Advanced unmoderated testing
Use cases
- →Academic research
- →AI training and evaluation
- →Market research
- →User research & testing
- →Data annotation
- →Training & alignment
- →Evaluation & safety
- →Stop payment, card and check fraud
- →Prevent account takeover and application fraud
- →Meet AML/BSA compliance
- →Onboard customers with less friction
- →Understand dense research papers
- →Decode academic jargon
- →Summarize papers quickly
- →Learn unfamiliar technical fields
- →Understand research papers
- →Study and homework help
- →Review contracts and reports
- →Translate and summarize documents
- →Market strategy
- →Segmentation & Personas
- →Brand Research
- →Innovation & Concept Testing
- →User Experience & Usability
- →Creative Testing
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