Flow 01
Thematic review
Group the corpus by theme, draft a synthesis per theme with citations, and surface the open questions where the literature disagrees — the skeleton of a review section in an afternoon.
Use case · For researchers
AI for literature reviews that cite back.
Turn a stack of papers into a structured, sourced review. Synthesise the reading into a summary that surfaces agreement and disagreement, search across everything you've collected, and keep every claim linked to its citation.
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Workspaces
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Moves
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Workflows
askFinz · researchers
01Organise the corpus
02Synthesise with citations
03Search across the reading
04Keep the versioned record
research·search·storage
one workflowone workspace
What you can do
Four moves, one workspace.
- 01Organise the corpusBring the papers into one notebook; branch threads by question or theme so the structure matches the review.
- 02Synthesise with citationsDraft a synthesis that puts agreement on top and surfaces where the literature conflicts — each claim linked to its paper.
- 03Search across the readingSemantic search over the whole corpus: find the finding, the method or the quote without re-skimming every PDF.
- 04Keep the versioned recordFile the review and its sources so revisions branch from a versioned base rather than overwriting the last draft.
The stack under the work
The workspaces this job runs on.
Example workflows
What it looks like end to end.
Flow 02
Gap-finding pass
Ask across the corpus what hasn't been studied — where the methods are thin or the findings conflict — to point the next piece of work at a real gap.
Questions
Frequently asked.
- Can askFinz summarise academic papers with citations?
- Yes. Bring the papers into a notebook and the workspace drafts a synthesis that keeps each claim linked to the paper it came from, so the review is traceable rather than paraphrased away from its sources.
- Can I search across all my papers at once?
- Yes. Everything you collect becomes a semantic index, so you can find a finding, method or quote across the whole corpus without re-reading each PDF.
- Does it keep versions as I revise?
- Filed reviews and sources are versioned, so each revision branches from a stable base instead of overwriting the previous draft.
For researchers
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