Elicit AI
Accelerate research with AI: automate literature reviews, extract data, and synthesize findings efficiently.
Executive Summary
Elicit AI is a specialized AI research assistant designed to automate and streamline various stages of the research workflow, particularly literature reviews and data extraction. It is primarily used by academics, students, policy researchers, and analysts in research-intensive industries like pharmaceuticals and technology. The platform's key value lies in significantly reducing the time spent on laborious research tasks, offering structured, verifiable data extraction with sentence-level citations, and providing a more rigorous alternative to general-purpose AI chatbots.
Use Cases
- Conducting systematic literature reviews and meta-analyses.
- Rapidly discovering and summarizing relevant academic papers for a research topic.
- Extracting specific data points (e.g., methodology, findings, limitations) across multiple studies.
- Brainstorming research questions and identifying gaps in existing literature.
- Generating comprehensive research reports and overviews.
- Staying updated with new research in specific fields through alerts.
Features
Visibility
- Semantic Search: Finds relevant papers by understanding the intent of your research question, not just keywords.
- Interactive Tables: Organizes extracted data into customizable tables for easy comparison and analysis across multiple papers.
- Workspace Management: Allows users to organize different research projects and track search history.
- Filtering and Sorting: Provides options to filter results by publication year, study type, keywords, and sort by relevance, most cited, or most recent.
Intelligence
- Automated Literature Review Workflows: Automates key steps of the literature review process, including refining questions, gathering sources, screening, and data extraction.
- Data Extraction: Extracts specific, user-defined information from dozens or hundreds of papers into a structured table.
- Research Reports Generation: Automatically generates high-quality research briefs and detailed literature reviews based on analyzed papers.
- AI-Powered Summarization: Summarizes papers and synthesizes findings, helping users quickly grasp key information.
- Research Alerts: Leverages AI to surface relevant new research without cluttering the user's inbox.
Support
- Help Center/Documentation: Provides guides and resources for using Elicit's features and workflows.
- In-app Chat/Support (implied): Likely offers in-app support or contact options for user assistance.
- Dedicated Support (Enterprise): Enterprise plans include dedicated support.
Technical Specifications
- Architecture
- Cloud-native SaaS, LLM-powered agentic workflows
- Deployment
- Cloud/SaaS
- Authentication
- Google/GitHub login, SSO (implied for Enterprise)
- API Available
- Yes
- MCP Server
- No
AI/ML Stack
- NLP
- Machine Learning
- LLM
Integrations
- Semantic Scholar
- PubMed
- Zotero
- Mendeley
- EndNote
Security & Compliance
Certifications: SOC 2 Type II (implied)
Encryption: TLS 1.2/1.3 in transit (standard for SaaS)
Pricing
- Model
- Freemium, Tiered subscription, Custom enterprise
- Starting Price
- Basic: Free; Plus: $12/month (billed annually at $120/year); Pro: $42/month (billed annually); Enterprise: Contact sales.
- Target Customer
- Academics, Students, Researchers, Mid-market to Enterprise research institutions
- Contract Type
- Annual (for Plus/Pro discounts), Monthly available
- Free Trial
- Yes, Free Basic plan available indefinitely with credit limits. (credit card required)
About Elicit
Elicit is an AI-powered research assistant that helps automate literature review and evidence synthesis for scientists, students, and analysts. Incubated at Ought, it operates as an independent public benefit corporation, leveraging large language models to search, summarize, and extract information from over 125 million academic papers.