Consensus

Consensus is an AI-powered search engine for scientific literature. Instead of returning web pages, it searches peer-reviewed research and answers your question with summaries and citations to the underlying papers.

Key features

• Answers grounded in papers: each claim links to the study it came from, so you can check the source.
• Study summaries: highlights the most relevant papers and notes details such as study design.
• Research workspace: save, organise and analyse papers for a literature review.
• Search for free; paid individual and team/enterprise plans unlock more advanced features and usage.

Background

Consensus was founded in 2021 by Eric Olson and Christian Salem and is based in San Francisco. The company says more than 10 million researchers, students and clinicians use it.

Good for

Students, researchers, clinicians and curious readers who want evidence rather than opinion. Answers are only as good as the papers behind them, so it's still worth opening the cited studies. Related tools on SleekNav: Semantic Scholar, Google Scholar, Connected Papers and Zotero for managing references.