Elicit is an AI-powered research assistant designed for researchers, academics, industry professionals, and students to efficiently navigate and analyze over 125 million academic papers. It automates tasks like summarizing papers, extracting data, performing systematic reviews, and generating research-backed reports. Elicit supports natural language search, quick paper summaries, question answering, and organization tools, helping users discover relevant research, extract key insights, and streamline the research process in empirical fields like biomedicine and machine learning.

Navigating research is rarely efficient, but Elicit actually trims down the time spent on literature reviews and data extraction. Its AI quickly pulls summaries and key data from over 125 million papers, making it invaluable for researchers conducting evidence syntheses or academics scoping new domains. The option to ask questions directly, upload and interact with PDFs, and customize data columns saves real hours in early-stage analysis.

Yet, impressive speed comes with the risk of inaccurate or irrelevant results and some advanced features are oddly buried in the interface. Elicit’s chat still needs honing and accuracy checks are a must, but for empirical fields or systematic reviews its strengths easily outweigh the learning curve. Worth considering for any research-heavy workflow, especially if time is tight.

Use Elicit's "List of Concepts" feature when exploring a new research area to quickly identify and understand the key ideas and themes, then use those concepts as search terms to find relevant papers and orient yourself within the field, allowing you to efficiently target your research efforts and identify potential business opportunities or gaps in the market.