§ Recipe
Academic research helper.
Academic research is a throughput problem. You read 40 papers to cite 10. These tools don't do the thinking for you — they remove the mechanical overhead so you can spend more time on the part that matters.
Literature search
01Semantic search across 200M papers. Not just keyword matching — asks 'what's the effect of X on Y' and returns studies that actually answer, with data extracted into tables.
Claim verification
02When a paper makes a strong claim, Consensus shows you the meta-picture: how many studies agree, disagree, and with what effect sizes. It's the spot-check you need before citing.
Paper synthesis
03Upload 20 PDFs, ask synthesis questions across all of them at once. Its audio overviews are genuinely useful for finding your way into an unfamiliar field.
Citation graph
04Visualize the paper's intellectual lineage. You find the actual load-bearing citations — not just the ones the paper itself cites — and the adjacent work it doesn't.
Writing assistance
05Long context handles paste-the-whole-draft edits. Better than generic AI writers because you can say 'preserve my voice, tighten the argument' and it actually will.
Reference management
06The canonical open academic graph. Export citations, track what cites your work, find related papers algorithmically. Free, and the bedrock of several other tools above.