Elicit

Elicit is an AI research assistant designed specifically for scientists, academics, and anyone conducting literature reviews. Founded in 2021 as a spinoff from the nonprofit Ought, Elicit uses language models to help researchers find, analyze, and synthesize information from academic papers.

Elicit's core workflow allows researchers to ask a research question and receive a structured analysis of relevant papers, including key findings, methodologies, sample sizes, and limitations — extracted automatically from full-text papers. The platform can process thousands of papers and organize findings into customizable tables, enabling systematic literature reviews that would traditionally take weeks to complete in hours.

Elicit differentiates from general-purpose AI tools by deeply understanding the structure of scientific papers and the conventions of academic research. The platform's extraction capabilities can identify specific data points (effect sizes, confidence intervals, populations studied) across large paper sets, making it particularly valuable for meta-analyses, evidence synthesis, and research planning. Elicit has raised significant venture funding and serves researchers at leading universities and research institutions.