AI tools for Research Analysts

Capture everything, actually find it later

AI that reads papers so you can skim

All the best AI models in one workspace

Upload a research paper or YouTube video

Y2Doc is a YouTube to document converter that turns a pasted video link into a structured document, PDF, Markdown or docx file.

Paste your half-finished research paper into Sourcely

Research in conversations

Most academic research tools just organize what you've already found

Claude 3

This service cross-references citations against millions of academic papers, journals, and books in leading databases

Make sense of research papers

You get five free credits daily on the Starter plan—enough for five YouTube video subtitle downloads without paying

Multi-model AI platforms usually force you to pick one provider and stick with it

You save articles

You're reading news about a controversial policy change

Outrank provides advanced PDF interaction capabilities that go beyond basic document viewing

Ever open a browser tab to find something you saved three months ago, only to spend ten minutes hunting through bookmarks

When academic research needs to be thorough, cited, and completed quickly, Resea AI autonomously plans and executes deep research tasks while generating reports that read like human writing

This research agent takes a topic or question and returns finished deliverables rather than just text responses

You've got hundreds of survey responses sitting in a spreadsheet

Eight AI agents work simultaneously on different angles of your question

Literfy is an AI literature review generator that combines paper search with review writing in one workflow.

This platform promises to turn your scattered reading pile into a searchable knowledge base

Perplexity Comet is a browser from Perplexity with an AI assistant built in.