Elicit

Research paper search that extracts data into a table with the columns you define

Elicit searches a database of scholarly publications and returns a table: paper, year, sample, method, main result, in the columns you set. It runs systematic reviews, summarizes papers and shows quotes from the text. It helps analysts, HR researchers and anyone who needs evidence from primary sources in place of general claims. The database is in English.

Free plan

A limited number of credits for search and data extraction, limited upload of your own PDFs

Paid plans

Elicit pricing

Tasks it handles well

• Build a competitor price review
• Summarize changes in legislation for colleagues
• Find research studies on a topic

Most useful for

• Accountant
• Lawyer
• HR manager
• Finance manager
• Manager
• Marketer
• Sales manager
• Data analyst
• Teacher
• Executive assistant
• Logistics manager
• Procurement manager

Pitfalls to watch at work

• The model extracts data from papers and makes mistakes in numbers: open the paper at the cited page before quoting
• Coverage of non-English publications is thin, so on questions of national law and accounting the service has little to say

Billing

Card payment on the website through Stripe.

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