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Futurwise
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Curated intelligence app delivering verified, attributed human analysis across tech, climate, health and mobility.
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Elicit
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Well-adopted AI research assistant for finding papers, summarizing, and extracting data at scale.
2.1M visits/mo
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BioSkepsis
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AI life-sciences research assistant: semantic search over 40M+ papers with traceable citations, knowledge-graph retrieval and Zotero import.
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Liner
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AI research and search assistant for professionals and academics, with cited answers, deep research and file uploads.
Pricing
No public 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
Basic: €0 (free monthly usage)
Plus: €8/mo (2.5x free usage)
Pro: €35/mo (8x free usage)
Team: €60/mo (3 seats)
Free trial available
Free: $0 (advanced search, ads)
Pro: $14.99/mo billed annually (deep research, 20 uploads/day)
Max: $29.99/mo billed annually (unlimited uploads)
Team: $26.99/user/mo
Core features
- ✦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
- ✦Semantic search across 40M+ life-science papers
- ✦Auto-mode Research Agent with query refinement
- ✦Full-text reasoning, not just abstracts
- ✦Biology-native knowledge graph retrieval
- ✦Evidence-graded, citation-backed answers
- ✦Zotero library import and session sharing
- ✦AI agents for search, research and writing
- ✦Advanced search with cited, accurate answers
- ✦Deep research reports
- ✦File upload and analysis
- ✦Access to major AI models (ChatGPT, Gemini, Claude)
- ✦Ad-free experience on paid tiers
Use cases
- →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
- →Interpreting lab results against published evidence
- →Running literature reviews
- →Generating hypotheses and methodologies
- →Preparing proposals and lectures
- →Conduct academic and professional research
- →Get cited answers to factual questions
- →Draft documents with AI support
- →Analyze uploaded files
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