AI for research teams
Branch an investigation, cite every claim, and keep the trail intact.
What the notebook reads from
Open-access work, with the study attached.
Read from the repositories and publishers that hold it, so a paper arrives with its identifier rather than as a page that happens to describe it.
- Patents, read from the offices that grant themGranted patents and published applications from more than a hundred patent offices — searchable by what an invention does, not just the words in its title.
- Registered marks, with their territory and statusTrademark registrations read from the offices that grant them — searchable by what a mark covers, not just its spelling.
- Questions people really asked, and what actually workedThreads read for their resolution — the accepted answer rather than the longest argument.
Papers, preprints and the data behind them
Open-access research read in full — with the datasets a finding rests on kept alongside the write-up.
worksPlus whatever you upload yourself. See the full collection breakdown or read how the index is built.
Today · what you can do
Four moves that keep the trail intact.
- 01
Branched investigation
Open a side question without losing the parent thread. Pin a snapshot when the line of inquiry matters.
- 02
Version-controlled notebooks
Named snapshots, 3-way merge, restore. Every draft is reachable; nothing is silently overwritten.
- 03
Source citation
Citations are part of the structure of the answer, not a footnote glued on at the end.
- 04
Multi-source synthesis
Cluster the day's reading across feeds and your own corpus. Find the agreement, surface the disagreement.
Today · in private access
The stack under a defensible answer.
One workflow, end-to-end
Resolving two studies that disagree.
Four moves an investigator makes when the literature will not settle — each one shipping today.
- Step i. · ResearchAvailableBranch on the conflict.
Two studies disagree. Open a Research notebook, branch a thread per finding, pin a snapshot before either line of inquiry diverges. The 3-way merge later becomes the synthesis section of the paper.
- Step ii. · SearchAvailableSweep your library semantically.
Run semantic search across your prior notebooks and the corpus you've already collected. Find the paragraph from a paper you read six months ago that already framed the disagreement — not just the file name.
- Step iii. · NewsAvailableCorroborate against current reporting.
Pull the deduped multi-source clusters on the topic. New data, new replications, retraction notices — the open web check that your literature snapshot didn't catch.
- Step iv. · StorageAvailableExport the merged notebook.
Merge the two branches in Research and export the resolved notebook to versioned Storage. The pin from step one stays reachable; the merge is the new authoritative draft, not a silent overwrite.
Shapes of work
Four jobs the desk hands over.
Literature synthesis
Pull twenty papers on a question, cluster them by claim, surface where the field agrees and where it disagrees. The Researcher reads, the Summariser distils, the Writer threads — every claim back to the page it came from.
Methodology drafting
Draft the methods section for a study from prior protocols and the question at hand. Comparable methods get pinned next to yours; the workshop drafts the rationale for each design choice; you keep the editorial call on what survives the review.
Data analysis pipelines
Hand the workshop a dataset and a question. The Analyst writes the cleaning step, runs the model, drops the chart. Code, output and rationale live next to each other in a notebook a peer can re-run.
Citation graph navigation
Start from a paper that matters. Follow what cites it, what it cites, what it argues against — and what has been filed on it, since the patent record sits next to the academic one. The workshop holds the graph so you can follow the lineage of an idea across years of literature without losing the thread.
Not available yet
Two rooms still in build.
Drop a file, ask a question, get a chart. No formulas required.
Connect the platforms you already use — Drive, SharePoint, Notion, Slack, GitHub, Jira, Salesforce and more — and askFinz pulls them into one searchable, permission-aware knowledge layer. Once it's in Knowledge, every other workspace can read it: ask in Chat, cite in Research, build a dashboard in Charts.
- —Structured analysis over trial, survey and outcomes data in Data.
- —A shared knowledge layer across a group's notebooks in Knowledge.
Questions
Frequently asked.
Doing a literature review specifically? That job has its own page.
How does askFinz handle citations in research notebooks?
Citations are first-class in Research notebooks. Every claim the workspace generates attaches a reference to the source document, passage or article. The trail from conclusion to evidence is part of the structure, not a footnote added at the end.
Can I import my own papers, datasets and prior notes?
Yes. Upload documents to Storage and they become part of the searchable index Research reads from. Semantic Search finds the relevant passage across your whole corpus — not just the file name.
Is askFinz suitable for academic publishing workflows?
It suits the research, synthesis and drafting stages well. askFinz doesn't submit to journals or manage peer review — it produces the notebook and the cited draft you then format for submission. Your reference manager and editorial workflow stay separate.
For research teams
Read what we write before you trust what we build.
Our own notes on indexing, retrieval and citation are published rather than pitched.
- workspaces in access
- 5 workspaces in access
- worked examples
- 4 worked examples
- reference collections
- 7 reference collections