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Well-adopted AI research assistant for finding papers, summarizing, and extracting data at scale.
Knowledge-graph text analysis tool that surfaces topics and content gaps for research, SEO and market analysis.
AI research workspace that drafts full academic papers with verified inline citations from up to 500 uploaded sources in a single prompt.
Free nonprofit tool that visualizes scientific literature as topic maps, clustering papers to speed research discovery.
Browser extension that adds dual subtitles and click-to-lookup to Netflix and YouTube for learning languages.
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- ✦AI-enabled systematic reviews
- ✦Research reports
- ✦Upload your own PDFs
- ✦Quick summaries
- ✦Source quotes
- ✦Question answering
- ✦Text network / knowledge graph visualization
- ✦Topic modeling and content-gap detection
- ✦AI insight and question generation
- ✦GraphRAG and MCP server for LLMs
- ✦Many import sources (PDF, CSV, YouTube, Google, web)
- ✦Obsidian plugin and browser extension
- ✦Full document drafting from one prompt
- ✦Automated literature search via Semantic Scholar
- ✦Import and cite up to 500 uploaded papers
- ✦Inline citation verification
- ✦Export to PDF, Word, LaTeX, and BibTeX
- ✦Overleaf integration for manual editing
- ✦Zotero and Mendeley library import
- ✦AI-generated visual maps of research topics
- ✦Clusters papers into themes
- ✦Open-access resource discovery
- ✦Open-source and nonprofit
- ✦Custom integrations/embedding for organizations
- ✦Dual subtitles on Netflix and YouTube
- ✦Click-to-lookup word translations
- ✦Saveable vocabulary items
- ✦Playback controls for language study
- ✦Works as a browser extension
- →Speeding up literature reviews
- →Automating systematic reviews and meta-analyses
- →Learning about new domains
- →Data extraction in rigorous systematic literature reviews
- →Research and idea generation
- →SEO content-gap analysis
- →Qualitative and market research
- →Researchers producing a literature review quickly
- →Students drafting long papers with verified citations
- →Academics writing in a non-native language
- →Exporting AI-drafted content into LaTeX workflows
- →Get an overview of a research field
- →Find relevant papers faster
- →Identify key concepts in the literature
- →Embed discovery tools in library systems
- →Learn a language while watching shows
- →Look up and save new words from video
- →Study with dual subtitles