Configuration
Manage AI providers and model settings
Clears every key & setting back to blank (this browser only).
- Stored only in this browser (localStorage) — never written to our database.
- Sent to our server only to run your job, held in memory while it runs, and never logged.
- Used solely to call the AI provider you configure, on your behalf.
- Ollama here means Ollama Cloud (your key calls ollama.com) — not a local/offline model.
- Research credentials too: your OpenAlex key & contact email follow this exact same contract.
One key powers all three roles. Add it below and press Test to begin.
This key powers all three roles by default — override any role below if you want.
The AI company your key is from (OpenAI, Anthropic, …). Pick the one that issued your key.
The exact model to use, typed as the provider names it (e.g. Claude-Opus-4.8). Stronger models write better papers — the recommended ones are proven.
Recommended (1M-context): Claude-Opus-4.8 · Claude-Opus-4.7 · Claude-Sonnet-4.6 · GPT-5.4 · Gemini-3.1-Pro · Gemini-3.1-Flash-Lite. Other models work — use at your own risk.
Your personal key from that provider. It bills your account, never ours — and only leaves this browser to run your paper.
Research — real, peer-reviewed citations
Strongly recommended — this is what grounds your paper in genuine published research instead of invented references. It still runs without a key on a limited try-out tier; a free OpenAlex key gets you the real thing.
Real research — not an AI making things up.
Most “AI paper” tools scrape the open web and let the model invent citations. This one doesn't. Every source comes from published, peer-reviewed research and landmark scholarship — each with a real DOI you can click and check yourself. And when the research genuinely doesn't support a claim, we say so; we never fabricate a citation to fill the gap.
Add a free OpenAlex key for real research.
Without one, research runs on a shared, rate-limited tier that often fails under load — you'll get few real sources, or none. It's free and takes about 30 seconds — see just below.
The scholarship behind your work
Every citation in your paper traces to one of these open scholarly archives — real, public, and peer-reviewed. Never the open web, never invented. Each is free, built by public institutions and nonprofits who believe research should belong to everyone. We're proud to stand on their work.
OpenAlex
A free, open catalogue of 240+ million published papers, books, and articles from every field. We search it to find the work most relevant to your topic.
PubMed
The U.S. National Library of Medicine's index for medicine, health, and biology — the one doctors use. For papers in those fields, we search here too, alongside OpenAlex.
NIH iCite
A free citation database from the U.S. National Institutes of Health. For the medical papers we find through PubMed, it tells us how many times each one has been cited by other scientists — a real measure of influence — so the most important work rises to the top instead of getting buried. Completely free, no key required.
Crossref
The official registry that issues a paper's permanent DOI when it's formally published. We use it to double-check every source is a real, published article — never a draft or a web page.
Unpaywall
Given a paper, it finds a legal free copy of the full text if one exists — so we can read the actual paper, not just its summary, without pirating anything.
PubMed Central (PMC)
A free full-text archive of medicine and biology papers run by the U.S. National Institutes of Health. When a free copy lives here, we pull the complete text from it.
Europe PMC
A free European archive that stores the complete, section-by-section text of life-science and medical papers. When a paper lives here, we read the whole thing — not just its summary.
arXiv (say "archive")
A free repository where physics, math, and computer-science researchers post their papers — often a free copy of work that's also in a journal. We read from it only to get the full text of a paper we've already confirmed is peer-reviewed.
CORE
The world's largest free library of open-access papers, across every field. Add a free CORE key (optional) and we can read the full text of many more of your sources — instead of just their abstracts.
How your paper gets its evidence, step by step — in plain English
- We search real, published research for your topic.
- We keep only peer-reviewed and landmark work — no preprints wearing a journal's clothes.
- We legally fetch the full text wherever it's openly available.
- Every claim is grounded in what those papers actually say — shown to you in the evidence panel.
- If we can't verify something, we tell you — we never invent a citation.
A few words we used
Peer-reviewed — Before a paper is published, other experts check that it's sound. That review is what separates real research from a blog post.
Preprint — An early version a researcher posts before that expert review — exciting, but not yet checked, so we never treat one as a finished source.
Open access — Free for anyone to read, instead of locked behind a journal's paywall.
DOI — A permanent ID for a paper, like a barcode — it always points to the exact real paper, so a citation can't rot into a dead link.
A free OpenAlex key makes research fast and reliable:
- Create one in about 30 seconds at openalex.org → Settings → API key — it's genuinely free.
- A free key comfortably covers about 100 papers a day — plenty for anyone.
Your key and email stay in this browser, handled exactly like the API keys above.
A free key that makes searching real research fast and reliable. Optional — but strongly recommended.
The research databases ask for an email so your requests get the priority lane instead of the slow anonymous queue. Sent only to them, never stored, never used for anything else.
CORE is the world's largest free library of open-access papers. Add a free key (self-serve at core.ac.uk) and we can read the full text of many more of your sources — instead of just their abstracts. Entirely optional: leave it blank and everything still works.
Lets us search the world's published research for sources. Off: your paper has no references at all.
Lets us read the full text of sources, not just their summaries — stronger evidence. Off: abstracts only.
Enter a key to test it. (The test just reads one free record.)
Verify The Writer to continue.