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AI tools for professors and PIs

For the work that lands on a PI: who is funded for what, whether the references in a student draft are real, and an overview figure for the next proposal.

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Capabilities for running a group

Chosen for the two things a PI is asked to do most: win funding and sign off on other people’s drafts.

Find funded grants

Find funded grants

All disciplines · NIH RePORTER, NSF Awards, UKRI Gateway to Research

Verify references

Verify references

All disciplines · Crossref, OpenAlex

Retraction checker

Retraction checker

All disciplines · Retraction Watch, Crossref

Search papers

Search papers

All disciplines · OpenAlex, PubMed / Europe PMC, arXiv +5

Scientific figure maker

Scientific figure maker

All disciplines · Best-in-class figure model

Journal checker

Journal checker

All disciplines · OpenAlex, DOAJ

Find funded grants
Search funded projects by topic, investigator or institution to see who is funded for what, and where your proposal would sit.
Verify references
Run a student’s reference list before you read the draft; invented or garbled citations are flagged entry by entry.
Retraction checker
Check the group’s shared library and your own back catalogue for retractions and corrections.
Search papers
A quick, sourced answer to “has anyone done this?” when a student brings a new idea.
Scientific figure maker
Overview figures for proposals and reports, in one consistent style.
Journal checker
When an unfamiliar journal invites a submission, see its DOAJ listing, charges and warning signs.

Requests from a PI

Find funded grants

You say to your agent

Show NSF and UKRI awards on solid-state battery interfaces since 2021, grouped by institution, with amounts.

Funded projects with investigator, institution, year and amount, and the abstracts behind them.

Verify references

You say to your agent

This is the reference list from a student’s draft. Tell me which entries do not exist and which have wrong details.

A status per entry, the matched record with DOI, and a corrected list in your citation style.

Retraction checker

You say to your agent

Here are the DOIs our last three papers cite. Has any of them been retracted or corrected since?

Retraction and correction notices with dates, reasons and links to the notice.

Why an agent, not another app?

You already write and think with Claude or ChatGPT. There is no other app to switch to: you add academic data tools to the agent you have.

Over MCP (Model Context Protocol) the agent queries academic databases directly, and the records it gets back carry their source and licence, so you can check them.

Frequently asked questions

No. It tells you whether the paper exists and whether author, year, volume, pages and DOI are right. Whether the paper says what the student claims still needs a reader.

NIH RePORTER, NSF Awards and UKRI Gateway to Research. It returns funded projects, not open calls, so it shows the landscape rather than the next deadline.

No. It reports retractions, corrections and expressions of concern recorded by Retraction Watch and Crossref. It does not judge papers that have no notice.

Every call your agent makes uses credits, and a call is charged only when it succeeds. There are no subscriptions. A new account starts with a one-time gift of 50 credits. The 6 web tools under /tools are free without an account, up to 5 runs a day.

Requests are used only to answer you. We do not train models on them.

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