Consensus
AI academic search engine that summarizes insights from peer-reviewed research papers.
What is Consensus?#
Consensus is an AI-powered search engine built for finding evidence-based answers from peer-reviewed scientific research.
What can Consensus do?#
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Academic search
Searches 200M+ peer-reviewed research papers with licensed full-text sources.
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Deep Search
Builds a search strategy, expands key terms, and explores the citation graph.
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Medical mode
Narrows results to ~50K clinical guidelines and 8M articles from top medical journals.
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Natural-language filters
Specify timeframes, populations, study designs directly in the prompt.
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Consensus Meter
Shows how much the evidence agrees or disagrees on a yes-or-no question.
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Result tables
Compile search output into structured tables for comparison.
Use Cases#
- Researchers — Run a Deep Search to turn days of literature review into a few minutes of structured output.
- Clinicians — Switch to Medical mode for trusted answers drawn from the top 1000 medical journals.
- Students — Ask a yes-or-no question and read the Consensus Meter to gauge the state of evidence.
- University library users — Access peer-reviewed literature through partnerships with 170+ university libraries.
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