Elicit

Elicit is an AI research assistant that performs semantic search across a database of over 138 million academic papers and 545,000 clinical trials. It utilizes multi-step workflows and interactive tables to structure research tasks, automating systematic literature reviews by finding papers, extracting data, and generating summaries. To ensure transparency, all AI-generated claims include sentence-level citations. The platform's Research Agent gathers evidence to create cited artifacts, with its core automation validated to reduce literature review time by up to 80 percent. The platform is built for academic and industry researchers, graduate students, and learners. In a typical workflow, a researcher can initiate a literature review, and Elicit returns a customizable table of papers with extracted data for analysis. While it assists with citation discovery and manuscript clarity, complex mathematical proofs or specialized queries still require cross-referencing primary sources. Users should also note that the freemium model's daily generation limits can restrict progress on comprehensive projects like multi-chapter dissertations.