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Academic and research

A research library built around the way you already cite.

Cognoir is the workspace for literature reviews, systematic searches, comprehensive exams, and the kind of citation discipline peer review demands. Build a knowledge base from the journals, textbooks, working papers, and recorded talks you already have — and ask questions across the whole corpus.

A library of journals, books, and working papers — searchable like one.

You upload the corpus you've been collecting in folders and Dropbox and shared drives for the last decade. Cognoir parses each paper by its actual structure — abstract, methods, results, discussion — so when you ask a question across the whole library, the answer cites the section that contains the claim, not the paper as a whole.

Citations to the page, not the paper.

Most question-answering tools cite a work without saying where in the work the claim came from. That makes the citation unverifiable in practice. Cognoir cites the section and page (and the paragraph where the document layout permits), so a reviewer can pull the original PDF and confirm the inference in 30 seconds.

When the source is a preprint or a non-paginated working paper, the citation falls back to a section heading and paragraph number. We never invent a page number that doesn’t exist.

Replicates the structure of a systematic review.

Ask things like 'where do these RCTs disagree on adverse events?' or 'which of these systematic reviews include Cochrane-rated studies?' and Cognoir surfaces the cross-references with the citations attached. The corpus does the work; the synthesis happens in your head, not in a model's prose.

What you can upload

Academic papers (PDF / DOCX), medical literature, technical writing, educational materials, books, news, and general documents. Web pages come in as their native source type. Scanned pages and handwritten notes are read by OCR.

File-size cap is 50 MB per file. Plans differ on total library size and concurrent knowledge bases — see the pricing page for current limits.

Start a free trial with academic parsing

Pick the academic specialism in onboarding to enable the conventions above by default. You can change the specialism per knowledge base later.