AI Research Assistant for Papers, PDFs, Recordings, and Your Library
A multimodal AI research assistant: search 300M+ paper records, bring in PDFs, scans, and recordings, ask your own library, run research agents, and keep every source.
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Rivul AI keeps the source record visible: Ask Rivul cites passages by page, Research lists every source it found, agent runs keep every step, and citations resolve from scholarly metadata.
Why the Assistant Works From Your Sources
A generic chatbot starts without your library and ends with prose you still have to verify and cite. Rivul AI starts from the sources you bring, keeps the question, evidence, and reference together, and lets the useful output become a brief, a report, or a manuscript.
Ask the right sources
Ask Rivul answers from the papers you pick; Research searches the Rivul Index and your library. The sources stay visible so you know what the answer could draw from.
Keep evidence attached
Source chips and citation nodes travel with the answer instead of becoming a list you must reconstruct after copying the prose elsewhere.
Delegate the searching
Research agents run a saved brief on a question, read the most relevant papers, and write a cited report. Runs keeps every step and source.
Workflow
Bring in sources
Search papers, upload PDFs or add them by DOI, arXiv, BibTeX, or Zotero, and turn scans and recordings into text.
Ask and research
Ask your library, write a cited brief, or run a research agent on the question.
Check and use
Open each source, then cite it in a paper and export, or keep the brief or report.
What the Assistant Does Not Do
A model can organize evidence and propose language. It cannot decide whether a study is sound or whether a passage truly supports your claim. Rivul AI keeps the source close and gives you checks, but the scholarly judgment stays with you.
Frequently Asked Questions
What is an AI research assistant?
It is software that helps find, read, compare, and cite research sources. Rivul AI is a multimodal AI research workspace: it works across papers, PDFs, scans, recordings, and your library, with Ask Rivul, the Research notebook, and research agents.
Can Rivul AI search academic papers?
Yes. Search papers searches metadata for 300M+ works in the Rivul Index with no AI key, and Research and agents can search the Rivul Index and your library for a cited brief or report.
Does the AI research assistant cite sources?
Answers can include source records, and manuscript citations are resolved from scholarly metadata. You should still open each source and confirm that it supports the sentence.
Can I export my work?
Yes. Agent reports download as Markdown, Research copies BibTeX, and manuscripts export to Word, LaTeX, or Markdown with their bibliography.