Elicit

Elicit is an AI research tool for people who read a lot of academic papers. Researchers, consultants, and analysts use it to search academic literature fast; it searches more than 138 million papers, drawing on the Semantic Scholar database among others. A user can ask a question in plain English and get a list of relevant papers with summaries. The Systematic Review workflow guides a user through screening papers, pulling out data, and writing a synthesis, and can screen up to 5,000 papers on the Pro plan. Elicit can also pull structured data into a table, comparing dozens of papers at once. The Enterprise plan adds single sign-on and two-factor login for larger teams.

This fits a team that runs literature reviews often, such as research, policy, and clinical strategy groups. A good starting point is the free plan, which gives unlimited search and paper summaries. A team ready for full systematic reviews should budget about 49 dollars a month per person for the Pro plan, billed yearly; heavier users may need the Scale plan, at about 169 dollars a month, which adds real-time collaboration, and larger teams needing single sign-on should ask for an Enterprise quote. One risk is trusting Elicit's extracted data without checking it against the original paper. The tool works best on structured academic writing and can struggle with messy or non-English sources, so treat it as a fast first pass, not a final answer.