Understand Anything
while AI handles the labor

Turn any topic or sources into a space with AI interfaces that helps you build understanding fast, and continuously research on your behalf.

Your thinking workspace, scaffolded by AI.

1

Powerful Chat Agent

Search and reason over sources + web

Choose specific sources to focus on. Turn off AI knowledge when you want answers ONLY from your specific documents. Uses Claude-4.5-Sonnet.

See where answers come from

Every response links back to exact paragraphs in sources.

2

Continuous/Deep Research

Set it and forget it

AI researches in the background on your behalf, continuously, keeping you updated. Coming Soon.

Research in-depth

Deep Research anything. Read the full report, a summary, and ask follow ups. Run and compare several reports in the same space.

3

AI Reader

Stop getting bored or overwhelmed

Repititive text? Zoom out to summary. Interesting again? Zoom in to source. Per paragraph, per chapter. For epub/pdf/html.

Quit alt-tabbing

Read and chat in the same space. AI knows what you are reading - get answers to your questions without context switching.

4

Knowledge Maps

See the whole picture, then dive in

Turn a source/topic into a map. Zoom in and out of information. Follow your curiosity and build out your map infinitely.

Switch to listening, on the go

Switch your map into a podcast - seek forward and back in 2 minute semantic chunks.

5

Visual Note Taking

Never lose track in chat walls

Visual tree shows what you've covered at a glance

Retain complete control

Edit, delete, and rearrange notes as you go.

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