Elicit is an AI research assistant for working with academic papers. It began as a project at Ought, a nonprofit research lab, and became its own company in 2023. Jungwon Byun and Andreas Stuhlmuller lead it. It is based in Oakland, California.
Users ask a research question, and Elicit finds relevant papers and summarizes their findings. It can pull data from many papers into a table, such as sample sizes, methods and results. This helps with systematic reviews, which normally take a long time. Each claim links back to the passage in the paper. Users can upload their own PDFs and run the same analysis on them. Reports show the steps Elicit took to find and screen papers, so users can check its work.
There is a free plan with limits. Paid plans give more searches, more data extraction and longer reports. Researchers, students, scientists and policy analysts use it, along with teams in pharmaceutical and medical research.