Elicit

Overview

Elicit is an AI-powered research assistant designed to automate parts of the scientific research workflow. It enables users to search, summarize, extract data from, and interact with a large corpus of academic papers and clinical trials. The platform aims to help researchers accelerate their understanding of existing science and support various stages of research.

Key Features

• Search — Semantic search across over 138 million academic papers and 545,000 clinical trials.
• Research Reports — Generates customizable research briefs inspired by systematic review processes.
• Systematic Literature Review Automation — Automates screening and data extraction for systematic reviews, with partial support for search and report generation.
• Library — Organizes and stores research sources for future projects and reuse.
• Alerts — Provides updates on new research to help users stay current in their fields.
• Data Extraction — Extracts up to 20,000 data points from research papers.

Who It's For

Elicit is designed for researchers across various domains and industries, including pharmaceuticals, academia, medical devices and technology, policy and government, consumer goods, and industrials. It supports individuals and teams involved in scientific inquiry, evidence-based policy making, and product development who need to efficiently process and synthesize large volumes of scientific literature.

Notable Strengths

Elicit's strength lies in its ability to process a large scale of information, capable of finding up to 1,000 relevant papers and analyzing up to 20,000 data points simultaneously. The platform emphasizes transparency by providing sentence-level citations for all AI-generated claims. Researchers have reported up to 80% time savings when using Elicit for systematic reviews.