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CLUSTER RESEARCH-ASSISTANT-INFORMATION · 44 ENTRIES · EARLIEST ENTRY 2025-06-19

AI research assistant tools

These products form a cluster of AI-powered research assistants that search, summarize, and synthesize information from academic papers, web sources, and uploaded documents, often with citation support and multi-agent workflows. The dated entry history shows a low, intermittent pattern: two entries in June 2025, one in July 2025, then a gap until October 2025, after which single entries appear in most months through July 2026, with a few absent months. The clear traction leader is AI-Research-Assistant, which has 42 stars, far outpacing the next closest (SideBy and NutriRAG at 1 star each).

Entry timeline

ENTRY TIMELINE

JUN 2025: 2OCT 2025: 1JUN 2026: 1AUG 2026: 15SEP 2026: 18OCT 2026: 7
JUN 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 · 3 hand-coded · 17 unlabelled

Operator · 13 hobby · 1 enterprise · 6 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. 01AI-Research-Assistant42★1 mo—hand-codedhobbyWeb research assistant that performs real web searches and generates styled HTML research reports with automatic retention.
  2. 02SmartDocQ7★2 moliveAI assistant that searches, analyzes, and extracts insights from uploaded documents using natural language queries for research and professional use.
  3. 03nia-substack-agent1★14 dayslivehobbyAutonomous agent that runs an online publication by choosing topics, researching sources, writing articles, and posting notes and comments.
  4. 04industry-research-agent1★21 days—hobbyAI agent that researches industries and competitors from web sources and local documents, then produces structured reports with citations.
  5. 05Akashic0★1 mo—Web platform for managing research documents and using AI to search and analyze them.
  6. 06research-assistant0★1 mo—hobbyAI assistant that searches, summarizes, and organizes information to support research tasks.
  7. 07intelar0★2 dayslivehobbyAI research assistant that answers questions through live web search, uploaded documents, and cited deep-research summaries.
  8. 08Agentic-Research-Assistant0★1 day—hand-codedResearch assistant that searches the web and documents, summarizes findings, and answers research questions while redacting personal data.
  9. 09research-multi-agent0★12 dayslivehobbyAI research agent that plans, verifies, and synthesizes web, academic, and industry sources into structured reports for a question.
  10. 10web-research-agent0★2 days—Web research agent that autonomously gathers, filters, and synthesizes online information to answer user research questions with cited sources.
  11. 11CASS-reaserch-0★6 dayslivehobbyAI deep research tool that plans sub-questions, searches the web in parallel, and writes cited reports with follow-up Q&A.
  12. 12Deep_Research_Agent0★19 days—hand-codedhobbyDeep research agent that decomposes complex questions, searches web and local knowledge, reflects on gaps, and generates cited reports.
  13. 13deep-research-agent0★21 days—hobbyAI research assistant that plans research topics, searches the web, synthesizes findings into reports, and emails the results to users.
  14. 14university-ai-assistant0★14 days—hobbyAI assistant that answers university-related questions from documents, searches the web, and manages room bookings for students.
  15. 15ai-research-assistant0★21 days—hobbyAI research assistant that searches the web, analyzes sources, generates structured reports, and automatically verifies and revises them.
  16. 16ai-research-engineer0★7 days—hobbyMulti-step research agent that plans web searches, reads pages, and writes answers with citations and optional self-audit.
  17. 17ResearchPilot0★20 days—AI research assistant that answers questions from uploaded documents, performs web searches, and generates structured research reports.
  18. 18weknora-dsh0★3 days—enterpriseAI assistant that searches documents and answers questions through web, WeChat, and browser extension channels for knowledge workers.
  19. 19omniagent0★24 days—AI assistant that analyzes uploaded voice, images, and documents, searches the web, and writes cited structured analysis reports.
  20. 20Tauri-HackerBest-havkathon-Workshop-0★10 dayslivehobbyAI-powered academic research assistant that helps researchers discover open datasets, verify source reliability, and generate documentation.

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.