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CLUSTER RESEARCH-ASSISTANT-CITED · 22 ENTRIES · EARLIEST ENTRY 2026-09-09

Cited academic research assistants

This cluster comprises AI research assistants that ingest scientific papers, answer research questions, generate hypotheses, design experiments, and produce cited reports. The cluster's dated history is too thin to read a shape from – only two dated entries exist before the index start. Traction leaders, by activity signal, are NutriRAG, ai-research-scientist, and thesisforge, in that order.

Entry timeline

ENTRY TIMELINE

NOV 2025: 1AUG 2026: 3SEP 2026: 15OCT 2026: 3
NOV 2025OCT 2026

Each bar is the month a member carries, which is a creation date where the source published one and a crawl date otherwise. Nothing in the index was found before 11 August 2026, and coverage broadened sharply on 14–15 August, so a bar from then on reports how much we found that month, not how much was built; an earlier bar reports how far back a member's own source dated it — not how long we have been watching.

Members by activity

Activity signals, not revenue.

Build origin · 1 ai-built · 3 hand-coded · 16 unlabelled

Operator · 17 hobby · 1 indie · 2 unlabelled

Two labels per entry, never collapsed into one: how it was built, and who stands behind it. Counted over the 20 listed below. Unlabelled means nothing has decided yet — not that the answer is small.

  1. 01ResearchPilot21★12 days—hobbyAcademic research assistant that searches scholarly literature, retrieves page-level evidence, verifies claims, and maintains persistent research workspaces.
  2. 02ai-research-scientist2★24 days—hand-codedhobbyAI research assistant that searches academic papers, generates hypotheses, designs experiments, and writes cited research reports from a research question.
  3. 03thesisforge1★21 daysliveAI academic assistant that helps students and researchers structure theses, search indexed scientific literature, and export APA-style citations.
  4. 04ARx-Inventor1★1 day—hobbyAI research assistant that ingests documents and approved web sources and produces a cited research briefing.
  5. 05AI_RESEARCH1★19 days—hand-codedhobbyAI research assistant that ingests scientific papers and answers research questions with cited evidence.
  6. 06groundwork-agents0★21 days—hand-codedhobbyResearch assistant that answers questions from a personal document collection and carries out multi-step tasks with citations.
  7. 07agentetvn0★4 dayslivehobbyAI editorial assistant that turns public news and official indicators into a prioritized news agenda with cited evidence and drafts for human review.
  8. 08telomi0★13 days—hobbyPersonal AI research companion that collects sources, writes cited reports, converts them to audio, and builds a growing knowledge wiki.
  9. 09researchflow-ai0★15 days—hobbyAI research assistant that plans, searches, fact-checks, and writes fully cited reports based on user questions and uploaded documents.
  10. 10langgraph-rag-agent0★24 days—hobbyResearch assistant that answers questions from uploaded papers across multiple knowledge bases and cites sources for each conclusion.
  11. 11Agentic_RAG_Research_Assistant0★24 days—hobbyResearch assistant that answers questions from uploaded papers by retrieving relevant passages and showing source evidence.
  12. 12Yaswanth0★17 dayslivehobbyAI research assistant that retrieves sources, extracts empirical claims, builds an evidence matrix, and generates citation-grounded reports with knowledge graphs.
  13. 13orchestra0★3 days—Research assistant that compares answers from multiple LLMs, checks evidence, and builds structured briefs.
  14. 14Agentic-AI-0★22 days—hobbyAI assistant that turns a rough research idea into a full academic proposal with literature search, peer review feedback, and Word document export for researchers.
  15. 15ai-research-copilot0★15 days—ai-builthobbyAI research assistant that analyzes academic paper collections, answers cross-paper questions, surfaces evidence-backed research gaps, and generates themed literature reviews.
  16. 16knowpilot0★25 days—hobbyAI research workbench that takes a topic, retrieves sources, drafts a cited report, and rewrites it until it passes quality checks.
  17. 17deepresvalue2★1 moliveindieAn AI-powered research assistant that supports academic writing, data analysis, and literature review for scientific researchers across many disciplines.
  18. 18agentic-ai-platform1★29 days—hobbyAI research assistant that breaks questions into subtasks, searches sources, reviews evidence, and writes cited reports.
  19. 19idea-vault0★1 mo—hobbyAI research assistant that captures ideas, reviews literature, and generates design documents and new ideas.
  20. 20marginalia0★1 molivehobbyAI research assistant that searches academic papers on arXiv, synthesizes findings with inline citations, and remembers research sessions for later.

Ranked by traction, highest first, and paged 20 at a time — this is a window on the cluster, never the whole of it. Ties are broken by a stable id so a product cannot appear on two pages or fall between them. Browse every cluster.