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Undermind finds the papers others miss, helping you start broad, go deep, and build real command of your field over time.

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How Undermind works

Describe your research. Undermind does the rest.

1 — Describe

Explain what you're working on

Search

Undermind asks follow-up questions to understand exactly what you need.

2 — Explore

Undermind searches the literature

It reads and evaluates hundreds of papers, follows citation trails until it's found everything.

3 — Build

Go deeper together

Search

Iterate on reports, dive into full texts, extract details, and refine your understanding.

4 — Keep up

Stay in the loop

Alerts

Undermind keeps tabs on your areas of interest and notifies you with important updates.

Undermind's v1 search engine delivered 10x better results than Google Scholar, and we've been improving ever since.

Features

Dive Deeper
Into The Literature

Brainstorm research directions

Brainstorm with an AI expert that has read the relevant literature. Generate custom tables to support your research.

Report Chat
Citation

Verify responses

Trace any statement by following in-line citations back to the source paper

Gauge relevance

Quickly grasp if a paper is relevant to your unique question. Sort and filter however you like.

Relevance

Stay up to date

Get notified whenever relevant papers are published.

Alerts
Use Cases

Speed Up Your Research

Assess Novelty

Quickly determine if your idea has been explored or if you're onto something groundbreaking.

Novelty

Identify Gaps in the Literature

Pinpoint unanswered questions and emerging trends in your domain.

Gap

Scope Complex Topics

Rigorously assess niche research areas before investing time and resources.

Complexity

Cross-Disciplinary Insights

Uncover connections between fields to inspire new approaches.

Cross

Solve Research Bottlenecks

Find relevant methods, datasets, and prior solutions to problems you’re working on.

Novelty
Testimonials

What Researchers Say

I have used this for extensive literature review into very nuanced drug delivery topics and have been very impressed. From chemistry to clinical trial data, this has been a very helpful tool.

Joelle

Joelle Straehla

Koch Institute for Integrative Cancer Research, Clinical Investigator

Very happy subscriber. I use Undermind all the time and it has been a game-changer for me, condensing days of work down to a few minutes.

Marco

Marco Colangelo

MIT PhD and Professor of Electrical Engineering, Northeastern University

I am always impressed with Undermind's capabilities. It's often surfaced critical information I would have otherwise missed. Our whole research group is paying for Pro.

Andre

Andre Fonseca

Graduate Researcher, MIT

Undermind's unique algorithms give me exactly the information I need. Anyone searching the technical literature should be using this incredible tool.

Dan

Dan Recht

Applied Physics PhD, hard-tech entrepreneur, and startup advisor

I've had our whole R&D team at Actipulse subscribed to Pro and we are thrilled with it! It's amazing how it can dig up obscure papers that would take days or weeks to try to find otherwise.

Gabriel

Gabriel Villafuerte

MD/PhD and Chief Medical Officer, Actipulse Neuroscience

Undermind is easily the best lit search tool out there. It’s had a huge impact on our work. My team and I are long-term subscribers.

Will

Will Olsen

Co-founder and CEO at Engage Bio

Pricing

MonthlyAnnualbilling period

Free

$0

Includes basic features and limited usage

Get started with our free tier

Limited searches (5 per month)

Limited search results shown

Analyzes abstracts, not full texts

Limited report chats and summaries

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Pro

$16

per month, billed annually

You save 20% with annual

Full access to Undermind

Uses the latest, best AI models

Analyzes full texts, where available

Analyzes timeline and categories

Extend searches

Export references

Unlimited report chats

Team

$15

per person per month, billed annually

All features in Pro, plus:

Easily manage team members

Priority customer support

Centralized billing

Enterprise

All features in Team, plus:

Increased compute

Sitewide organizational login

Onboarding seminars

Admin dashboard

Custom terms/SLA/security review

Custom pricing

Dedicated support

Security

Enterprise-Level Security and Scale

Your IP and research data deserve the highest level of protection. We enforce strict security standards and never compromise on privacy.

No Training

Your company's data is never used to train AI models. Our agreements with our third-party model providers also guarantee no long-term data retention and no training.

Secure Cloud

Encryption with enterprise-grade security practices, trusted by dozens of leading research companies. Only you have access to your data.

Own Your IP

You own your inputs and their derivatives, we provide the software. Request complete removal of your organization's data at any time.

Questions? Our team can walk you through our security practices and compliance certifications.

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