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The Attic AI
✓ verifiedPaid
Enterprise platform for building custom, self-hosted AI models on internal documents, plus AI tools for grant/proposal writing.
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Glean
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Enterprise Work AI platform for company-wide search, an AI assistant and building governed agents across 250+ connectors.
3.2M visits/mo
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ResearchRabbit
✓ verifiedFreemium
Free-first literature discovery tool that visually maps citation networks and related papers to speed up systematic reviews.
1.2M visits/mo79 saves
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Heuristica
✓ verifiedFreemium
An AI-powered learning platform that turns sources into concept maps, flashcards, quizzes and summaries with multi-model chat.
89K visits/mo12K saves
Pricing
No public pricing
No public pricing
Free: $0/month (unlimited searches across 310M+ articles)
ResearchRabbit+ Annual: $10/month
ResearchRabbit+ Monthly: $12.5/month
Basic: Free (up to 3 saved concept maps)
Professional: $7.99/mo (unlimited maps, multi-model AI, all features)
Core features
- ✦No-code custom LLM training on internal documents
- ✦Private/self-hosted deployment options
- ✦Automated proposal and grant application drafting
- ✦AI compliance-matrix mapping to RFP requirements
- ✦Searchable enterprise knowledge base
- ✦Government appropriations research tool
- ✦Enterprise search across company apps
- ✦Personal AI assistant grounded in work data
- ✦Agent builder, orchestration and governance
- ✦250+ connectors and actions
- ✦Enterprise knowledge graph and hybrid search
- ✦Security controls for scaling AI
- ✦Citation and author network exploration from a seed paper
- ✦Interactive visualizations of how topics relate over time
- ✦Unlimited library organization and collection sharing
- ✦Zotero integration for syncing saved papers
- ✦Up to 300 seed articles supported on the paid tier
- ✦Alerts for new related research
- ✦Concept map builder
- ✦Flashcards with spaced repetition
- ✦AI quiz and summary generation
- ✦Import from PDFs, YouTube, websites, PubMed and arXiv
- ✦Multi-model AI chat (GPT, Claude, Gemini, Qwen)
- ✦Cross-format conversion and sharing
Use cases
- →Turn scattered internal documents into a searchable knowledge base
- →Train a company-specific AI model without a data science team
- →Draft government or university grant proposals faster
- →Check proposal compliance against RFP requirements
- →Search across all company knowledge
- →Answer employee questions with grounded AI
- →Build and deploy custom AI agents
- →Automate cross-system workflows
- →Building a systematic literature review efficiently
- →Discovering research gaps in an unfamiliar field
- →Tracking new publications related to saved papers
- →Visualizing how a body of research has evolved
- →Visualizing and studying complex topics
- →Turning research sources into study materials
- →Literature review and dissertation prep
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