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Curated intelligence app delivering verified, attributed human analysis across tech, climate, health and mobility.
Well-adopted AI research assistant for finding papers, summarizing, and extracting data at scale.
Widely used visual tool for exploring related academic papers.
Free nonprofit tool that visualizes scientific literature as topic maps, clustering papers to speed research discovery.
AI reviewer that critiques academic manuscripts and Coauthor agents that search, cite, and draft alongside researchers.
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- ✦Curated intelligence across four domains
- ✦Tiered source channels from news to research
- ✦Verified and attributed human insight
- ✦Daily updates on fast-changing topics
- ✦Mobile and web access
- ✦AI-enabled systematic reviews
- ✦Research reports
- ✦Upload your own PDFs
- ✦Quick summaries
- ✦Source quotes
- ✦Question answering
- ✦Visual graph generation of related academic papers
- ✦Discovery of prior and derivative works
- ✦Identification of important and relevant papers
- ✦Exploration of research field dynamics
- ✦AI-generated visual maps of research topics
- ✦Clusters papers into themes
- ✦Open-access resource discovery
- ✦Open-source and nonprofit
- ✦Custom integrations/embedding for organizations
- ✦AI manuscript review flagging gaps in argument and evidence
- ✦Citation search across 200+ million academic sources
- ✦Coauthor agents that search, read, and draft alongside users
- ✦Journal recommender and chat support
- ✦Confidentiality guarantee that documents aren't used for AI training
- →Staying informed on emerging tech and policy
- →Following expert analysis over algorithmic feeds
- →Tracking research shaping the next few years
- →Speeding up literature reviews
- →Automating systematic reviews and meta-analyses
- →Learning about new domains
- →Data extraction in rigorous systematic literature reviews
- →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
- →Get an overview of a research field
- →Find relevant papers faster
- →Identify key concepts in the literature
- →Embed discovery tools in library systems
- →Graduate students refining a thesis or dissertation
- →Researchers preparing a manuscript for journal submission
- →Students polishing essays and reports for coursework
- →Getting fast feedback without waiting on a supervisor