Consensus
Research & Search
Searches academic papers and tells you what the evidence actually says.
What is it?
Elicit is for systematic reading of research. Ask a question and it finds relevant papers, then builds a table where each row is a paper and each column is something you asked for: sample size, method, main finding. It extracts the answers from the full text.
Where Consensus gives you a quick yes-or-no feel, Elicit is for going deep: screening hundreds of papers against your criteria and producing a review you could defend. It can also chat with a single paper.
It's built for academic and clinical research. Marketers will mostly want Consensus or Perplexity instead.
Who it's for
Researchers, students and analysts who need to review a lot of papers carefully.
Best for
- Literature reviews
- Extracting data from papers
- Screening papers by criteria
- Comparing studies in a table
Why it made the list
The only tool that turns a literature review from weeks into hours without cutting corners.
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