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Modern academic publishing still largely follows the philosophy of a time when researchers exchanged letters to communicate research—first in the 1400s, and later formalized in journals by the 1600s. The result is a system that’s static and out of sync with how the scientific process actually works. We believe publishing should be iterative and versioned, reflecting the process it’s meant to represent.

Science is a continuous effort to describe and model the world around us. With hundreds of millions of academic papers published to date, even the most widely accepted interpretations may be flawed—or contested in ways that are hard to track. Confidence in truth emerges from the interplay of evidence and revision—not from a single result. We navigate and contextualize search results to best answer questions, highlight competing ideas, and flag areas of low confidence. Science is hard, but literature review shouldn’t be.