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Research

Find tools for searching sources, reading documents and organising findings. Check the original material before relying on an answer.

These are provider-described capabilities and proposed applications. We have not independently tested the tools or verified business outcomes.

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AlphaSense

Uses AI to research company filings, market material and connected internal content with citations.

Opportunity to explore

Prepare a competitor-research brief for an analyst to verify.

Check first: Check content entitlements and read the cited passages before using a conclusion.

Source reviewed

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ChatGPT

Provides a conversational AI workspace for exploring questions, searching the web and analysing information.

Opportunity to explore

Prepare a first research outline and source-checking checklist for a business question.

Check first: Verify factual statements and upload only material you have permission to share.

Source reviewed

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Claude

Uses conversational AI to work with supplied information and produce research, analysis and draft work products.

Opportunity to explore

Organise an authorised document set into a research brief for a human specialist.

Check first: Inspect source coverage and factual accuracy before handing a generated brief to a client.

Source reviewed

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Consensus

Provides AI-assisted academic search for finding, organising and analysing peer-reviewed literature.

Opportunity to explore

Prepare a research reading list for a clearly defined technical question.

Check first: Relevance and peer review do not remove the need to assess study quality and applicability.

Source reviewed

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Elicit

Uses AI to find academic papers and organise evidence into cited research reports and review workflows.

Opportunity to explore

Help a specialist assemble a literature shortlist and an evidence comparison table.

Check first: Check search scope and original papers before treating a generated synthesis as complete.

Source reviewed

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Exa

Provides a search API for AI systems that need web information and structured page content.

Opportunity to explore

Design a source-collection step for a reviewed business research workflow.

Check first: An API integration and source-quality checks are needed before offering a research service.

Source reviewed

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Gemini

Offers a multimodal AI assistant that works with questions and information in formats including text and images.

Opportunity to explore

Explore a business topic and build a list of claims that need primary-source verification.

Check first: Generated explanations can be incomplete or incorrect; check important claims independently.

Source reviewed

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Glean

Uses AI to search connected workplace apps and retrieve answers from company information.

Opportunity to explore

Help staff locate the documents behind a recurring internal question.

Check first: Review connector permissions and confirm that sensitive records remain restricted to authorised staff.

Source reviewed

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Hebbia

Provides an AI workspace for working with documents and financial data.

Opportunity to explore

Prepare a document-review brief for an investment or advisory team.

Check first: Trace each reported fact to its source document before using it in a decision.

Source reviewed

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OpenRead

Combines paper discovery with a choice of AI models in a research workspace.

Opportunity to explore

Assemble a starting reading list for a new subject.

Check first: Check recommended papers for relevance and read the originals before relying on an AI answer.

Source reviewed

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Paperguide

Combines AI literature search with reference management and structured extraction from research papers.

Opportunity to explore

Prepare an evidence table for a reviewer to check study by study.

Check first: Record screening decisions and verify extracted details before calling a review systematic.

Source reviewed

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Perplexity

Searches the web with AI and returns conversational answers linked to cited sources.

Opportunity to explore

Assemble a sourced starting brief on a market question for an analyst to review.

Check first: Open the cited pages; the presence of a citation does not prove that it supports the answer.

Source reviewed

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Scholarcy

Provides AI tools for summarising, analysing and organising academic research.

Opportunity to explore

Prepare a structured reading pack that helps a specialist prioritise papers.

Check first: A summary can omit methods or caveats; review the full paper before drawing conclusions.

Source reviewed

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SciSpace

Supports AI-assisted paper discovery, evidence-table comparison and questions about research documents.

Opportunity to explore

Organise a literature review worksheet with traceable references for a human researcher.

Check first: Inspect pivotal studies directly and retain a documented search scope.

Source reviewed

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scite

Combines AI research answers with citation context showing how later work supports, challenges or discusses a claim.

Opportunity to explore

Add a citation-context review to a specialist evidence brief.

Check first: Supporting or disputing citations are evidence signals, not a complete assessment of a study.

Source reviewed

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Undermind

Searches scientific literature and uses AI to explore research directions and compare findings in tables.

Opportunity to explore

Explore a narrowly framed research question before commissioning a detailed literature review.

Check first: Verify paper relevance and any comparison against the full text; search coverage is not guaranteed.

Source reviewed

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You.com

Provides web-search APIs that retrieve content and generate grounded answers for AI applications.

Opportunity to explore

Design a source-linked research feed for a narrowly defined business topic.

Check first: Check original pages and source dates; a grounded answer can still omit relevant evidence.

Source reviewed