Research

Tool Guide

NotebookLM Guide

Google's source-grounded research notebook. Upload sources, chat with them, generate two-host audio overviews. Free and uncannily good.

Tool Guide

Perplexity Guide

An AI-first search engine that cites its sources. Replaces 'Google + 10 tabs' with a single conversational answer.

Workflow

Build an AI Research Assistant

A research agent that takes a question, searches the web, reads sources, and produces a cited briefing.

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Build a Competitive Intel Monitor

A weekly agent that tracks competitors — pricing, features, launches, hiring, and positioning — and delivers a cited briefing to Slack or email.

Case Study

Case Study: Product Team Ships Weekly Competitive Briefings

How a B2B SaaS product team automated competitor tracking and delivered cited Monday briefings to Slack for $6/week.

Case Study

Case Study: Consulting Firm Cuts Research Time 65% with Cited Briefings

How a 15-person strategy boutique shipped the AI research assistant workflow — sub-query planning, web search, and footnoted Markdown briefings for client work.

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Case Study: Consulting Firm Cuts Research Time 65% with Cited Briefings

How a 15-person strategy boutique shipped the AI research assistant workflow — sub-query planning, web search, and footnoted Markdown briefings for client work.

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Compare Two Tools / Services

Get a side-by-side honest comparison.

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Competitive Analysis (No BS)

Get a clear-eyed competitive landscape, not a generic feature matrix.

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Counter-Evidence Finder

Steelman the opposing view and find evidence that challenges your thesis.

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Data Quality Audit

Audit a dataset for quality issues before analysis or modeling.

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Executive Research Brief

Distill complex research findings into a one-page brief for decision-makers.

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Hypothesis Generator

Generate testable hypotheses from observations, data patterns, or research questions.

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Literature Synthesis

Synthesize multiple papers or sources into themes, gaps, and a coherent narrative.

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Methodology Critique

Critically evaluate a study's methodology, validity threats, and generalizability.

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Summarize Any Article

Get a structured summary of any long article, paper, or post.

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User Interview Question Generator

Get great open-ended questions for a user interview.

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User Research Synthesis

Turn raw user interview transcripts into actionable insights.

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Connected Papers

Visual tool that builds a similarity graph of related papers from a single seed paper to help explore a research field.

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Consensus

Academic search engine that answers questions from peer-reviewed papers, with a meter summarizing agreement across studies.

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Elicit

AI research assistant that finds relevant papers, extracts data into comparison tables, and drafts literature reviews.

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Falcon LLM

Open-weight LLM family from Abu Dhabi's Technology Innovation Institute, spanning Falcon 2, Falcon 3, and Falcon-H1 models.

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Iris.ai

Norwegian AI engine for scientific research with smart search, filtering, and data extraction across papers and patents.

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Kyutai

French open-science AI lab behind Moshi, a real-time speech-to-speech assistant, and open speech and audio models.

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Litmaps

Literature mapping tool that visualizes citation networks over time and alerts you when new related papers appear.

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NotebookLM

Google's source-grounded notebook. Upload docs, chat with them, generate audio overviews.

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Paperpal

AI academic writing assistant for manuscripts: language editing, paraphrasing, plagiarism checks, and submission checks.

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Preferred Networks

Japan's largest AI startup, applying deep learning to robotics and materials discovery on its own MN-Core accelerator chips.

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ResearchRabbit

Free citation-based discovery tool that builds visual networks of related papers and authors from seed papers.

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Sakana AI

Tokyo AI lab exploring nature-inspired methods such as evolutionary model merging, known for the AI Scientist research project.

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Scholarcy

Tool that summarizes papers into structured summary cards, extracting key claims, findings, figures, and references.

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SciSpace

AI platform for reading and understanding papers: a copilot that explains PDFs, plus literature review and writing tools.

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Scite

Citation analysis tool whose Smart Citations show whether later papers support or contrast a claim, plus an AI assistant.

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SEA-LION

Open-source LLM family from AI Singapore trained for Southeast Asian languages, cultures, and low-resource contexts.

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Semantic Scholar

Free academic search engine from the Allen Institute for AI, with AI-generated TLDR summaries and rich citation data.

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Silo AI

Finnish AI lab, now part of AMD, that built the open Poro and Viking LLMs for European languages and delivers applied AI work.

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Stockmark

Japanese AI company whose Anews and Astrategy products mine news and business data, backed by its own Japanese LLM development.

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STORM

Stanford's open-source system that researches a topic via multi-perspective search and writes a cited, Wikipedia-style report.

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Undermind

AI agent that runs deep, iterative searches of academic literature, aiming for exhaustive coverage of a specific topic.

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Zeta Alpha

Neural discovery platform for R&D teams: semantic search, monitoring, and RAG over internal and scientific documents.