Q: Hi there, I am trying to figure out if this is for me and appreciate a quick response.
I am not a scientific institute nor got a team. I am a solopreneur. However, research (topic related not scientific) is a key thing. Being able to distinguis between "noise" (opinions, content drift, content variation) and "original" content BUT as well as differentiated view on the same topics are a key element in my research - and those that are costly (time wise).
The majority of content I use for research is from online sources (some public, some behind paywalls (paid accounts I use) as well as ebooks I purchased (e.g. Kindle ebooks rather plain .pdf) as well as some scraped data living as datesets on a DB, sometimes just gSheets or even .csv (if its just the result of some one-off data gathering attempt).
My need is simple: Let me connect to online services, live search, my ebooks stored offline in a gDrive, and use your service to get better clarity of what I got + (ideally if offered at all?) get a glimpse of gaps I haven't covered / investigated well enough.
Is this what you do? If not, where else could you fit into my needs?
Alec_Afforai
Jul 2, 2024A: Hi nl8, Alec, co-founder of Afforai here. Thank you for reaching out.
The approach we take with Afforai is first improving on the legacy reference mangers like EndNote, Menedeley, and Zotero. So Afforai if anything, is our attempt to modernize these products because we are researchers too. And then we integrate Al into this citation/reference manager where we believe it make sense.
Afforai is specifically designed for researchers that always requires verifiability in their work.
That's the key difference.
Our Document Retrieval mode in the Afforai Al research assistant, with this you can connect your library to serve as a knowledge base to help the Al generate the answers. And give visual data sources and citations where the Al got the information from.
We got a few other modes, they are complimentary to your workflow.
Check out our User Guide below. It includes Afforai Academy, a series of videos teaching you how to effectively use Afforai. Im confident it will be helpful to you:
https://help.afforai.com/en/articles/8478714-get-started-with-afforai-all-in-one