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Augment Code
✓ verifiedPaid
Agentic coding platform (Cosmos) that runs software-dev agents at org scale, using a codebase context engine to cut token cost.
544K visits/mo
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AIScriptReader
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AI screenplay-coverage tool returning structured coverage reports and development notes per script in minutes.
1.5K visits/mo
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ExplainPaper
✓ verifiedFreemium
AI reading aid that explains highlighted passages of research papers in plain language to speed up dense academic reading.
56K visits/mo15K saves
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Side Reader
✓ verifiedFreemium
Browser extension that adds a PDF viewer/chat sidebar to ChatGPT, Claude, and DeepSeek for reading and querying documents.
341 visits/mo
Pricing
Business: $100/mo flat (up to 50 seats, $100 usage included)
Free trial available
Single Report: $39 per report (coverage or development notes)
Combo Report: $78 per report (both)
Free: $0/mo
Pro: $16/mo
Free trial available
Free: $0/mo (limited uploads and file size)
Lifetime: $29 one-time (higher upload limits, capture-and-ask, custom prompts)
Core features
- ✦Context Engine for codebase understanding
- ✦Agents across the full SDLC
- ✦Model routing / bring-your-own-keys
- ✦Automated code review and test coverage
- ✦CLI, MCP and native tool integrations
- ✦Enterprise security (SOC 2, ISO 42001, SSO)
- ✦11-section AI coverage reports
- ✦Scene-by-scene development notes
- ✦AI chat assistant for deeper insights
- ✦Script dashboard and organization
- ✦Results in minutes
- ✦Free screenwriting tools (formatter, character builder)
- ✦Highlight-to-explain any text
- ✦Follow-up questions on a paper
- ✦Whole-paper summaries (Pro)
- ✦Math and figure explanations (Pro)
- ✦Zotero library import
- ✦Saved highlights and explanations
- ✦Split-screen PDF viewer alongside AI chat
- ✦Zoom and text-copy tools for PDFs
- ✦Upload history tracking
- ✦Capture-and-ask screenshot querying (paid)
- ✦Custom prompt support (paid)
Use cases
- →Automating PR code review
- →Raising test coverage
- →Incident investigation and remediation
- →Large-scale migrations and onboarding
- →Getting screenplay coverage quickly
- →Development notes before rewrites
- →Evaluating scripts for production
- →Iterating affordably on drafts
- →Understand dense research papers
- →Decode academic jargon
- →Summarize papers quickly
- →Learn unfamiliar technical fields
- →Researchers reading and querying PDFs via AI
- →Students studying documents with AI help
- →Professionals reviewing reports using ChatGPT/Claude/DeepSeek
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