Consensus: AI-powered Academic Search Engine

What is Consensus?

Consensus is an AI-powered academic search engine that helps users find and understand the best science, faster. It provides extensive research coverage, time-saving AI insights, and proprietary academic search tools to find the most relevant and reliable research papers.

Features of Consensus

Pro Analysis

Gain insight faster with our Pro Analysis, which adopts a style, drafts content, formats, creates lists, and more. Read a referenced topic synthesis.

Consensus Meter

Quickly see the scientific consensus and gain topic context and direction. See exactly which papers were included.

Paper-level Insights

We extract key insights and answers. Locate the most helpful papers and digest their insights faster.

Search Filters

Filter by sample size, study design, methodology, if the paper is open access, a human or animal study (and many more filters).

Quality Indicators

Focus on the best papers - intuitive labels for citations, journal quality, and study type.

Study Snapshot

Our Study Snapshot quickly shows key information like Population, Sample size, Methods, etc. - all within the results page.

How to Use Consensus

Consensus is designed for researchers, students, clinicians, doctors, writers, journalists, health and fitness experts, and anyone who needs insights from the literature. Simply ask a question, and Consensus will provide AI-powered summaries of the top 5-10 articles.

Pricing

Try Consensus for free, and explore our affordable pricing plans for individuals and organizations.

Helpful Tips

• Use Consensus to streamline your literature review process and quickly see the direction of current findings.
• Leverage Consensus to check ingredients, chemicals, or molecules, and understand mechanisms of action.
• Use Consensus to get answers to patients' questions that you can trust, share information they can digest, and easily cite your references.

Frequently Asked Questions

What is the difference between Consensus and ChatGPT?

Consensus helps you find and understand the best science, faster, with results directly connected to scientific papers. ChatGPT predicts the most likely language that should follow, but is fully machine-generated and prone to hallucinations.

How does Consensus work?

Consensus utilizes purpose-built academic and vector search functionality, dedicated research LLMs, and proprietary LLMs that read research like an expert.