Persistent AI system for research

The system where your research lives.

Academe maintains persistent context across all your papers, drafts, notes, and citations — so it can reason across the full history of your work, not just the document in front of you.

Academe — Dissertation Project
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Are there contradictions between my chapter 3 argument and the findings in my earlier lit review?

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There is a tension worth addressing. In chapter 3 you argue that institutional trust mediates policy compliance, but your literature review (section 2.4) summarizes three studies showing trust has no significant effect once income is controlled for. You may want to either qualify the chapter 3 claim or revisit which studies you foregrounded in the review.

Ch. 3, p. 7 · Lit Review §2.4
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Huh, I did notice that felt off when I was writing it but couldn't place why. Can you pull those three studies?

The Problem

The bottleneck is not model quality. It is context.

Researchers switch between 5–10 tools per project and manually reconstruct context every time they use AI. They repeatedly upload PDFs, copy-paste text, and re-explain their work — which limits the depth of reasoning AI can provide. As a result, workflows are fragmented and AI remains shallow because it never sees the full state of the work.

01

Stateless AI

Current AI tools operate on isolated inputs. Every session starts from zero. Researchers have to repeatedly re-upload papers and re-explain their work, which limits the depth of reasoning the AI can provide.

02

Fragmented workflows

Researchers switch between 5–10 disconnected tools per project — writing, citations, search, and AI all live in separate places with no shared context between them.

03

Reconstructing context manually

The cost of context fragmentation falls entirely on the researcher. Time spent re-explaining your work to AI is time not spent doing the work itself.

The Solution

A persistent system, not another point solution.

Instead of working across multiple tools and reconstructing context manually, researchers work entirely inside one system where context persists and compounds. AI is not a separate interface — it is embedded directly into the workflow, operating continuously on the evolving state of the project. As more work accumulates in Academe, the system becomes more valuable.

Compounding context

As more work accumulates in Academe, the system becomes more valuable — because Academe has access to a richer history of your thinking and outputs. This is the opposite of stateless tools, which start from zero every session.

Persistent context

200M+ Publications

Open-access academic literature is integrated directly into the workspace — no repeated uploads required. Academe reasons across both your work and the surrounding corpus simultaneously.

200M+

Open-access papers

Reasoning, not summarizing

Because Academe has continuous access to the full context of a project, it can identify missing arguments, detect inconsistencies across drafts, connect claims to prior literature, and help position work for specific journals.

100%

Verifiable citations

End-to-End Research

Ask what you are missing.

Instead of isolated queries, ask questions like “are there contradictions in my argument?” or “what am I missing?” with answers grounded in the full context of your work. Thinking, writing, and iteration happen in one place.

Connect arguments to prior work

AI identifies how your current claims relate to papers you cited months ago.

Identify contradictions

Surface inconsistencies between your chapter 3 claims and the evidence you collected.

Suggest journal positioning

Get recommendations based on your project history and contribution type.

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200M+publications indexed
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How it works

From papers to prose in minutes.

1

Upload your corpus

Drag in PDFs, Word docs, and notes. Any format, any length. Everything is indexed automatically and persists across sessions.

2

AI reads everything

Academe maps every argument, citation, and concept across your documents. It builds a knowledge graph of your entire body of work.

3

Write with evidence

Generate outlines, expand sections, and get citations grounded in your actual uploaded content — plus 200M open-access papers.

Capabilities

Built for how scholars actually work.

Document Ingestion

Upload PDFs, Word docs, and notes. Any format, any length. Everything indexed automatically.

Semantic Search

Ask questions across your corpus. Get answers grounded in your exact papers with page-level citations.

AI Writing

Generate outlines, expand arguments, and rewrite sections in your voice with full context.

Voice Capture

Speak your ideas; Academe transcribes and structures them into your notes instantly.

Project Memory

Your thesis, key claims, and references persist across every session. No re-explaining.

Google Docs Sync

Import and export without breaking your existing workflow. Your files stay yours.

Built for everyone who works with knowledge

Whether you're writing your first essay or running a research program.

High School · Undergrad · Grad · PhD

For Students

From high school research papers to doctoral dissertations, Academe helps you engage with your sources more deeply and write arguments that hold together.

  • Literature ReviewsSynthesize sources into a coherent narrative — not a list of summaries.
  • Thesis WritingAI that understands your full project and keeps your argument consistent across chapters.
  • Citation ManagementEvery claim linked to its source. Never lose track of what you read.
  • Exam PreparationQuery your readings conversationally to surface what actually matters.

Postdoc · Faculty · PI

For Researchers

An AI that has read your entire body of work. Surfaces connections across projects, supports grant writing, and keeps up with the literature so you can focus on the ideas.

  • Cross-Project MemoryReason across all your work, not just the current document.
  • Grant WritingDraft proposals grounded in your prior publications and the current field.
  • Peer ReviewEvaluate manuscripts against the state of the literature in minutes.
  • MentorshipHelp students navigate sources without repeating yourself.

Analyst · Scientist · Consultant

For Industry

Research does not stop at the university. Whether you are tracking a fast-moving field, synthesizing internal reports, or writing for a technical audience, Academe keeps your knowledge organized and accessible.

  • Market & Field ResearchStay on top of literature in a domain without spending hours in search engines.
  • Internal Knowledge BaseUpload reports, whitepapers, and meeting notes. Ask questions across all of them.
  • Technical WritingDraft precise, well-cited documents with an AI that understands the full context.
  • Competitive AnalysisSynthesize what is known across a set of sources and surface the gaps.

One workspace

Everything your research stack does, in one place.

The average student, researcher, or analyst coordinates across six or more separate tools. Each switch costs time, context, and momentum. Academe was built to make that unnecessary.

Reference Management

Reference managersCitation exportersLibrary plugins

Import, organize, and cite from 200M+ papers — all inside your workspace.

Academic Writing

LaTeX editorsWord processorsCloud docs

Write and revise with full LaTeX support, live citation insertion, and an AI that has read your sources.

Note-Taking & PKM

Note-taking appsKnowledge basesLinked wikis

Capture annotations, build a knowledge graph, and surface connections across all your notes automatically.

Literature Discovery

Academic search enginesCitation graph toolsPaper databases

Find relevant papers, trace citation networks, and get recommendations grounded in your specific research questions.

AI Assistants

General-purpose chatbotsStateless AI assistants

An AI that has actually read your documents, understands your argument, and cites the exact page it is drawing from.

Collaboration & Sharing

Email threadsFile sharing appsMessaging tools

Share projects with collaborators, co-annotate sources, and keep everyone working in the same context.

Each of these categories has capable tools built for it. Academe does all of it together — with the context that comes from keeping your entire research life in one place.

Academe supports importing from any tool you already use. Don't see yours? Message us and we'll have it supported within 1 business day.

Pricing

Simple, transparent pricing.

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$0/month

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  • 5 documents per project
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  • Voice notes
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$19/month

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  • 50 documents per project
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$199/month

For research teams

  • Unlimited projects
  • Unlimited documents
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Our mission

Research is hard enough without the tools getting in the way.

The consistent bottleneck in research is never model quality. It is the manual effort required to read, cross-reference, and maintain context across many papers, drafts, and prior iterations. This work is time-intensive, error-prone, and does not scale.

The core issue is not lack of tools but lack of shared context across them. Research is done across many documents and iterations, but current AI systems operate on isolated inputs — so researchers have to repeatedly re-upload papers and re-explain their work. This limits the depth of reasoning AI can provide and makes it difficult to use these tools for real research output.

Academe solves this by maintaining persistent context across papers, notes, drafts, citations, and project history in one system — turning AI from a stateless, document-level assistant into a persistent research-level system that improves as it captures more of your work.

Students

From high school papers to doctoral dissertations. Academe keeps your sources, notes, and drafts together so you can focus on thinking.

Researchers & Faculty

Synthesize across a body of literature, identify gaps, and write under deadline with an AI that has actually read your work.

Industry Professionals

Analysts, consultants, and research scientists: organize everything you know, find what matters across sources, and write clearly for any audience.

Frequently asked questions.

The system where your research lives.

Stop reconstructing context. Start compounding it.