Research Agent
Ask questions about your uploaded papers and get answers grounded in your actual documents, not generic training data.
How it works
The Research Agent sits alongside your editor. When you ask a question, Academe searches across your project documents: papers, notes, drafts, and the scholarly works connected to them.
Responses include citations showing which document and passage the answer came from. Click a citation to jump directly to the source. Mathematical expressions render as typeset equations, not raw LaTeX.
Academe keeps project context across conversations: your research topic, methodology, and which sources you have already read, so you repeat less setup.
When it helps, the assistant can drop a passage, equation, or citation straight into your open document at the cursor. No copy and paste needed.
What to ask
Cross-document analysis
- “What are the main methodological differences across my uploaded studies?”
- “Which of my cited papers contradict the claim I make in section 3?”
- “Find non-obvious connections between the three most recent papers in my project.”
Literature discovery
- “Pull the most relevant recent papers on [your topic] across all my projects.”
- “Are there any gaps in my literature coverage that a reviewer would flag?”
- “Which of my cited sources are more than five years old?”
Writing assistance
- “Summarize my core argument across all my manuscripts in two sentences.”
- “Suggest a stronger framing for my introduction based on the evidence I have.”
- “Check this paragraph for unsupported claims.”
Reviewer preparation
- “What are the three strongest objections a reviewer could raise against my methods?”
- “How does my sample size compare to the standard in my cited literature?”
- “Does my statistical approach match the one used in the papers I cite?”
- Be specific about which documents or sections you’re referring to.
- Ask follow-up questions. The Research Agent retains conversation context within a session.
- Upload the documents you expect to cite, so cross-references can draw from the right corpus.
- Use the “Save as note” button to capture useful responses straight into your project.