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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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Paper Digest
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AI research platform for literature reviews, paper Q&A and daily digests, built for academics wanting cited answers.
140K 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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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
No public pricing
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
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
- ✦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
- ✦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
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
- →staying current with new research
- →generating cited literature reviews
- →reading and understanding papers
- →verifying academic claims
- →tracking topics and conferences
- →Interpreting lab results against published evidence
- →Running literature reviews
- →Generating hypotheses and methodologies
- →Preparing proposals and lectures
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