Imagine Zotero, and an AI assistant in one. That's Afforai, but it's even more amazing than that, if you think about it also as a repository for all of your research. This covers:

Citation
Research
Organising

And its use-cases are much more than that. But I have to be honest also, Tier 1 is okay, but this product isn't worth it unless you get Tier 2. In fact, its the only Tier 2 product I've bought on here. Let me give you an example, I was reading a paper on "narrative interviewing", and the paper provided detailed instructions but it was difficult for me to visualise what a narrative interview looked like. I then made a comment using the Afforai notebook, asking Azure GPT 3.5 to explain it to me. It failed. I then asked Azure GPT 4o to do it, and not only did it accurately show me what a narrative interview looked like, but it made up a whole scenario with speaker one and two. Sometimes authors drop a date or event, and you don't know what they're talking about. Afforai helps with that too. You can read, highlight, annotate, get an AI summary, within the AI notebook. Then you can call up your Research Assistant, and ask it draw connections between all of the papers you've read. Want to share your knowledge on social media, or design an online course, it can do that too.

You can also do entirely other stuff. Get a transcript of your podcast, and put it into Afforai, and it will draw out the key insights.

What I would recommend a few things:
Firstly, the AI notebook needs a little bit of work. Sometimes I try to highlight one sentence and it highlights the entire page. Also, a word-processor, with two window functionality, similar to Scrivener would make this an amazing product. Additionally, the "generative AI" feature that can be found in the Acrobat PDF reader will help summarise PDF's as well. If Afforai could gain some inspiration from Obsidian and allow for networked notes, that would be incredible as well.

Finally, if Aforai allowed for annotations of audio files, and pictures (similar to Atlas.Ti and Tropy respectively), then there would absolutely be no need to leave Afforai. I mean, Afforai after all, also lets you google and has access to millions of journal articles. They also have an "academy" section which you can find on their Youtube channel, so you can learn about it.

A desktop App would be great too. Things on the cloud can scare me sometimes. Imagine writing an entire PhD and relying on their servers. It's a scary thought. things like Obsidian which entirely rely on markdown, or scrivener which downloads onto your own computer, provide the peace of mind that Afforai just doesn't yet.

Over all get this, but get Tier 2. Seriously, you will regret not getting Tier 2. Tier 1 doesn't allow you to experience the full capabilities. But if you do get Tier 1, at least you get to bring your own API key down the line.