Consensus

Consensus is an AI search engine that delivers evidence-based answers directly from scientific research. Its architecture queries a database of peer-reviewed papers to synthesize information in response to natural language questions. The system extracts key findings and presents them in concise summaries, addressing the difficulty of navigating dense academic literature. For each synthesized answer, it highlights the source papers and explicitly identifies the study designs used, such as meta-analyses or randomized controlled trials, allowing users to quickly assess the evidence's strength. The platform is built for researchers, students, health professionals, and journalists requiring rapid access to scientific findings. A primary use case is asking a direct question to understand the state of research on a specific health intervention or scientific topic. It integrates into a workflow as an initial literature review or fact-checking step, supplementing traditional database searches. By surfacing study design details immediately, it enables users to prioritize sources based on the quality of evidence early in their investigation process.