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Well-adopted AI research assistant for finding papers, summarizing, and extracting data at scale.
AI research platform for literature reviews, paper Q&A and daily digests, built for academics wanting cited answers.
AI research workspace that drafts full academic papers with verified inline citations from up to 500 uploaded sources in a single prompt.
Widely used visual tool for exploring related academic papers.
Plant identification app with a 17,000+ species database plus care schedules, disease ID and botanist Q&A for home gardeners.
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- ✦AI-enabled systematic reviews
- ✦Research reports
- ✦Upload your own PDFs
- ✦Quick summaries
- ✦Source quotes
- ✦Question answering
- ✦literature review generator with per-sentence citations
- ✦AI reader for PDFs
- ✦AI writer with citations
- ✦academic claim verification
- ✦question answering over literature
- ✦daily, conference and best-paper digests
- ✦cross-source search of papers, patents and grants
- ✦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
- ✦Visual graph generation of related academic papers
- ✦Discovery of prior and derivative works
- ✦Identification of important and relevant papers
- ✦Exploration of research field dynamics
- ✦Photo-based plant identification
- ✦Database of 17,000+ species
- ✦Disease and pest identification
- ✦Personalized watering and care schedules
- ✦Ask-the-Botanist expert answers
- ✦Customizable plant lists and reminders
- →Speeding up literature reviews
- →Automating systematic reviews and meta-analyses
- →Learning about new domains
- →Data extraction in rigorous systematic literature reviews
- →staying current with new research
- →generating cited literature reviews
- →reading and understanding papers
- →verifying academic claims
- →tracking topics and conferences
- →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
- →Getting a visual overview of a new academic field
- →Ensuring no key papers are missed in a field with a large volume of new publications
- →Creating a bibliography for a thesis
- →Discovering relevant prior and derivative works
- →Identify an unknown houseplant or flower
- →Diagnose plant diseases and pests
- →Set up a watering and care routine
- →Learn care specifics for a species