AnswerThis: The AI Research Assistant

Hello YC! We’re Ayush Garg and Ryan Mccarroll from AnswerThis.

TL;DR

AnswerThis analyzes all the relevant research in your field to answer complex scientific questions with line-by-line citations. Over 250,000 researchers have saved months on their literature reviews using AnswerThis, making it one of the fastest-growing apps in the research space.

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Problem

Over 5 million research papers are published every year. Researchers spend months crawling through academic databases to conduct their literature reviews. By the time they finish, new literature has often been published.

When they finally have their literature collected, they must read dense papers while taking detailed notes. If they want to explore a new aspect of the topic, they have to repeat the process, making it difficult to advance science quickly.

Once they have their notes, synthesizing the findings into a detailed literature review requires precision, highly accurate citations, and concise but informative scientific writing.

This entire process is extremely time consuming, and takes away from actual experimentation.

Solution

Enter your question, select your filters, and AnswerThis searches multiple academic databases to answer it with exact citations to every relevant paper. The literature review that took months, now takes minutes.

You can save the sources, analyze them, and write with our AI assistant on a single platform while collaborating with your team.

We also integrate with tools researchers already use, like Zotero and Mendeley, and we offer advanced exports that correctly carry over citations and equations.

The user is able to verify each source, and save it to their AnswerThis library:

Our story

Ayush, the son of two PhD scholars, began publishing peer-reviewed articles at 16, with early work in natural language processing focused on parsing scientific literature.

Ryan, who leads product and growth, started selling products at 17 and scaled multiple Instagram accounts to hundreds of thousands of followers.

Together, they bring a blend of research depth and growth expertise, united by a passion for accelerating scientific discovery.

In the last two months, AnswerThis has answered over 250,000 scientific queries!

Our ask

If you’re a researcher or just want to try the product, please visit AnswerThis.io. We’d value your feedback.

We’d also welcome introductions to:

• Post-clinical-trial researchers conducting literature screening
• Directors at academic labs
• Medical Directors

Contact:

Ayush Garg: Ayush@AnswerThis.io

Ryan Mccarroll: Ryan@AnswerThis.io