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Citely
✓ verifiedFreemium
AI citation checker and source finder that verifies references and locates real papers to curb fake citations.
50K visits/mo3.6K saves
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SurfSense
✓ verifiedFreemium
Open-source competitive-intelligence platform giving AI agents live Reddit, YouTube, Maps and search data via API or MCP server.
34K visits/mo1.1K saves
Pricing
No public pricing
No public pricing
Self-hosted: $0 (unlimited scraping, bring your own model keys)
Pay As You Go: $5 free credit to start, then usage-based
Free trial available
Core features
- ✦AI-powered clinical documentation assistance
- ✦Revenue enhancement through billing opportunity identification
- ✦Utilization management tools
- ✦Seamless EHR integration
- ✦AI safety and reliability focus with SafeRead
- ✦AI source finder for claims and paragraphs
- ✦Citation checker for reference lists
- ✦Detection of fake or fabricated references
- ✦Real-time verification while writing
- ✦Reference-manager integration
- ✦Platform-native connectors for Reddit, YouTube, Maps, SERP and web crawling
- ✦Typed REST API and MCP server for agent tooling
- ✦Scheduled and event-triggered briefs and alerts
- ✦Writes results to Notion, Slack, Linear or Jira
- ✦Self-hosted open-source option with no usage limits
- ✦Pay-per-item credit metering for hosted usage
Use cases
- →Improving discharge summary completion rates
- →Reducing physician pajama time documentation
- →Identifying billing opportunities in patient encounters
- →Assisting with patient transfer summaries
- →Helping float physicians quickly get up to speed on patients
- →Verifying citations in student papers
- →Finding credible sources to support arguments
- →Catching AI-hallucinated references
- →Checking a bibliography before submission
- →Tracking competitor pricing and product page changes
- →Monitoring brand and category mentions on Reddit
- →Building local B2B lead lists from Google Maps data
- →Watching search rankings, ads and AI Overview citations
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