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Elicit
✓ verifiedFreemium
Well-adopted AI research assistant for finding papers, summarizing, and extracting data at scale.
2.1M visits/mo
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Open Knowledge Maps
✓ verifiedFree
Free nonprofit tool that visualizes scientific literature as topic maps, clustering papers to speed research discovery.
113K visits/mo1.1K saves
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The Rundown AI
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Daily AI newsletter that condenses AI news, tool spotlights, and practical use cases into a five-minute read for over two million readers.
630K visits/mo
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Iris AI
✓ verifiedPaid
Enterprise AI knowledge platform that unifies complex regulated-industry data into trusted, AI-ready intelligence for R&D and agents.
56K visits/mo
Pricing
Basic: Free
Plus: $10 per month, billed annually
Pro: $42 per month, billed annually
Team: $65 per user, per month billed annually
Enterprise: Custom
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Core features
- ✦AI-enabled systematic reviews
- ✦Research reports
- ✦Upload your own PDFs
- ✦Quick summaries
- ✦Source quotes
- ✦Question answering
- ✦AI-generated visual maps of research topics
- ✦Clusters papers into themes
- ✦Open-access resource discovery
- ✦Open-source and nonprofit
- ✦Custom integrations/embedding for organizations
- ✦Daily AI news digest delivered by email
- ✦Practical application tips alongside each story
- ✦Exclusive interviews with AI industry leaders
- ✦AI University with guides, tools directory, and courses
- ✦Article archive on AI, tech, and robotics
- ✦Axion for turning data chaos into AI-ready intelligence
- ✦Neuralith for converting enterprise knowledge into an AI engine
- ✦RSpace for precision intelligence in complex R&D
- ✦Data unification across fragmented enterprise sources
- ✦Built for regulated, compliance-driven industries
- ✦Video lessons
- ✦Revision notes
- ✦Quizzes
- ✦Flashcards
- ✦Exam-style questions
- ✦Past papers
Use cases
- →Speeding up literature reviews
- →Automating systematic reviews and meta-analyses
- →Learning about new domains
- →Data extraction in rigorous systematic literature reviews
- →Get an overview of a research field
- →Find relevant papers faster
- →Identify key concepts in the literature
- →Embed discovery tools in library systems
- →Professionals wanting a quick daily AI news briefing
- →Readers seeking practical ways to apply new AI tools
- →Learners looking for structured AI courses and guides
- →Following exclusive interviews with AI leaders
- →Grounding enterprise AI agents in trusted internal knowledge
- →Accelerating R&D literature and data analysis
- →Unifying siloed regulated data for AI applications
- →Preparing for Maths and Science exams at KS3, GCSE, and A-Level.
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