Consensus
Description
🖼️ Tool Name:
Consensus
🔖 Tool Category:
AI-powered scientific / research search engine — fits under Education & Research / Data & Analytics / Smart Assistant
✏️ What does this tool offer?
Consensus is an AI research assistant and search engine that finds, synthesizes, and delivers evidence and insights from scientific literature. It enables users to ask questions and get answers grounded in peer-reviewed research.
⭐ What does the tool actually deliver based on user experience?
• It searches across a large database of scientific papers and extracts relevant findings.
• Provides a “Consensus Meter” that shows how much agreement or divergence exists among the literature for a given question.
• Offers brief synthesized summaries, with citations to the original studies.
• Allows filtering by study types, methodology, citation count, etc.
• “Ask Paper” mode: you can ask questions about a specific paper and get targeted responses.
🤖 Does it include automation?
Yes — Consensus automates key research tasks:
Automatically scans and indexes scientific literature.
Automatically synthesizes and ranks evidence in response to user queries, without needing manual reading.
Generates summaries and a consensus judgment (via the meter) to help users grasp the landscape quickly.
💰 Pricing Model:
Freemium / subscription model. There is a free version with limited access, and paid tiers unlock advanced features.
🆓 Free Plan Details:
• Free users can perform a limited number of queries and access basic summaries.
• The free version includes core search and evidence extraction functions.
💳 Paid Plan Details:
• Paid tiers offer more queries, deeper analysis, premium filters, and perhaps institutional access.
🧭 Access Method:
• Web application / browser interface (Consensus.app)
• You enter a natural language question; the system returns referenced, evidence-based answers.
🔗 Experience Link:
https://consensus.app