Consensus is an AI-powered academic search engine that helps users find and interpret expert-backed, evidence-based answers from scientific literature. By summarizing peer-reviewed research using natural language processing, it aims to make complex academic information more accessible to both experts and everyday users.
Benefits & outcomes
- Speeds up access to high-quality research findings
- Summarizes evidence-based answers in plain English
- Democratizes access to science for non-academic audiences
- Reduces the need for specialized knowledge to interpret journal articles
Notes & quotes
“Our mission is to make the world’s expert knowledge discoverable and consumable.”
“We wanted to build a product that would allow anyone to engage with and consume the best sources of data on the planet.” — Eric Olson, Co-founder
Staff includes former engineers from Google, Amazon, Salesforce, and PayPal.
Advisors include Stephen Wolfram and experts in misinformation, health, and metascience.
21/11/2025:
https://consensus.app/home/blog/consensus-partners-with-acs-to-bring-trusted-research-into-the-ai-era/ ACS is enabling Consensus to access the full-text content of its paywalled journals. This integration will allow Consensus to deliver more precise search results and contextually-accurate AI-generated previews drawn directly from the full-text of ACS’s authoritative peer-reviewed literature. For users, this means more relevant search results and more robust AI summaries.
Review (20 Mar 2024): Comparison of GenAI Tools – Emerging AI Tools for Literature Review – LibGuides at Hong Kong University of Science and Technology Library
Publisher / company: Consensus NLP
Date of case study: 01/11/2022
Source: https://consensus.app/?home=true