The AI workspace that reads 100 papers so you don't have to โ and drops the answers into a table.
Elicit is built by the nonprofit Ought to automate the tedious core of research: finding relevant papers and extracting what they found. You ask a question, Elicit pulls studies from Semantic Scholar, and populates a spreadsheet with abstracts, populations, interventions, and outcomes โ each cell linked to its source. It won't replace reading, but it makes the first pass take minutes instead of days.
Who it's for: Systematic reviewers, grad students scoping a thesis, meta-analysts, and anyone who needs to summarize what a body of literature says.
Ask for a column โ 'sample size', 'effect size' โ and Elicit fills it across dozens of papers with citations.
Plain-English queries return the most relevant studies, not just keyword matches.
Upload your own corpus and Elicit will read and structure it the same way.
Chain steps โ find, extract, summarize, then draft โ into one repeatable pipeline.
Elicit is the fastest way to get a็ปๆๅ overview of any research area in 2026. Pair it with Scite (for citation context) and you have a literature-review stack that used to cost a research assistant's salary.