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How It Works

You describe your research once. The most relevant new papers arrive in your inbox with a note explaining why each one matters. Here’s what happens in between.

From a Quarter-Million Papers to the Three That Matter

Each stage narrows the field with increasing precision across retrieval, ranking, and a fine-tuned scientific evaluator.

0+ papers indexed

Every major scientific source

Multi-angle retrieval

Hybrid search shaped to your profile

Top candidates surfaced

Merged and deduplicated

Deep relevance scoring

Proprietary ranker reads each paper

Fine-tuned evaluation

Judged on a four-dimension rubric

Your final three

Each paper explained

Step 1

It Starts With You

You describe your research once: the question you’re asking, the methods you use, the constraints you face. From that description, we build a structured profile of your work: entities, methods, mechanisms, context.

That profile becomes a set of multi-angle search queries that reach beyond your core domain into the adjacent fields where a technique or insight you haven’t seen yet might be waiting.

Your Research

“Investigating LRRK2 kinase inhibition as a therapeutic target for Parkinson’s disease using iPSC-derived dopaminergic neurons and mitochondrial functional assays...”

Your Interest Profile

Core topicLRRK2 kinase inhibition in Parkinson’s
MethodsiPSC-derived neurons, mitochondrial assays
Mechanismsmitochondrial dysfunction, kinase signaling
Contextneurodegeneration, therapeutic targeting
Adjacentalpha-synuclein, lysosomal pathway
Broadneuroprotection, clinical translation
Step 2

Everything New. Everywhere It’s Published.

We ingest every major scientific source daily. Citation graphs, multidisciplinary indexes, biomedical archives, and preprint servers are merged into a single unified corpus refreshed nightly.

250K+

Papers in the working corpus

14 days

Rolling window, refreshed nightly

Hybrid

Semantic + lexical retrieval

Unified & Deduplicated

The same paper is often indexed in multiple places. We resolve identities, merge records, and give papers found by multiple sources a stronger signal.

Step 3

Every Paper Read Against Your Research

Search engines rank papers by their own generic algorithms. Our ranker reads your full research description alongside each paper’s title and abstract, scoring how precisely the two relate. We evaluated this approach head-to-head against the top commercial options across a hundred research projects and shipped the one that won most consistently.

Traditional Search

Keyword-matched, ranked by recency

Our Approach

Ranked by relevance to your research

Step 4

A Fine-Tuned Scientific Evaluator

Relevance alone isn’t enough. A paper can be on your topic but incremental, or use interesting methods but lack evidence.

Every finalist is read by our fine-tuned evaluation model, trained on hundreds of expert-graded examples to score papers on four dimensions that reflect how researchers actually assess the literature. Review articles are detected and filtered based on your preferences. The highest-scoring papers are selected for your digest.

For each paper you receive, a second pass writes a two-sentence note explaining exactly why it matters to your work. Not a generic summary, but a targeted connection between the paper’s findings and your own hypotheses, methods, or goals.

Scientific Rubric

LRRK2 Inhibition Restores Mitochondrial Function in iPSC-Derived Parkinson Neurons

Cell Stem Cell · Feb 2026

Topical Relevance9
Methodological Transfer8
Novelty8
Evidence Strength6

Relevance Note

Why this matters to you

“Demonstrated that LRRK2 kinase inhibition rescues mitochondrial membrane potential and complex I activity in iPSC-derived neurons. The dose-response data and mitochondrial assay approach directly inform the researcher’s experimental design.”

Evidence

Tested the Hard Way

Every component you see above was chosen after hand-graded evaluation on real research projects across every major discipline.

100+

Research projects hand-graded

Independent human evaluation, pairwise comparison

600+

Expert-graded training examples

Used to fine-tune our scientific evaluator

3

Commercial rankers benchmarked

We shipped the one that won most often

Breadth of evaluation

Our evaluation set spans the real research landscape: high-temperature superconductors, base editing for sickle cell disease, nitrogen-vacancy diamond sensors, algorithmic fairness audits, urban gentrification studies, tonal text-to-speech, cancer immunology, protein language models, and dozens more. Wide enough that any system prone to niche-domain failure breaks visibly.

Pairwise

Blinded head-to-head

4-Dim

Scoring rubric

93%

Cheaper vs prior evaluator

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