Workflows

Students: a lecture and the week's readings

Start with a recorded lecture and the PDFs your course assigns.

1. Step 1: Upload the recording to Transcribe, or click Record during a talk. Keep the page open until the transcript is ready.
2. Step 2: Download the transcript, or click a timestamp to hear a passage again.
3. Step 3: Add the readings to your Library and wait for PDF · text ready.
4. Step 4: Ask Rivul a question across them, such as How do these readings define the term?, and open each cited passage.

Result: a timestamped transcript and answers tied to pages in your readings.

Engineers: paper search from your AI tools

Start when you already work in Claude Code, Codex, or Cursor, or want search in your own code.

1. Step 1: Connect Rivul MCP to the client, or create an API key under Rivul MCP → Access keys for the REST API.
2. Step 2: Ask the client to search papers, and confirm it calls search_papers; or POST a query to /api/atlas/v1/search.
3. Step 3: Open the returned DOI or landing page before relying on a paper.

Result: search over metadata for 300M+ academic papers inside the tools you already use, with structured records you can check.

• Set up Rivul MCP
• REST API reference

Academics: from a search to a draft

Start when a topic needs sources you can cite.

1. Step 1: Search papers, save the ones you will use, and open them in the reader.
2. Step 2: Draft in Papers and insert references from your Library.
3. Step 3: Check claims against your sources, then export Word, LaTeX, Markdown, or BibTeX and review the output against the venue's rules.

Result: a draft whose references stay connected to their records. Rivul AI does not guarantee acceptance or venue compliance.

• Papers

Researchers: delegate a question to an agent

Start when a question needs many searches, such as a literature map or an evidence table.

1. Step 1: Create an agent with a goal, its sources, and an output, and attach a skill such as Literature map.
2. Step 2: Run it on the question and follow its steps.
3. Step 3: Open the run in Runs, check the sources it read, and download the report as Markdown.

Result: a cited report with a record of every search and source.

• Agents and Runs

Everyday use: a long document, an article, a voice note

Start with something you need to understand, not study.

1. Step 1: Add a long PDF, such as a contract, a lease or a manual, to the Library, then ask Ask Rivul plain questions such as When can this agreement be cancelled? and open the cited page.
2. Step 2: Paste an article into Listen and listen while you do something else. The browser voice has no limit.
3. Step 3: Record or upload a voice note or a meeting in Transcribe and copy the text.
4. Step 4: Turn a photographed letter or a scanned form into text with Document OCR.

Result: plain answers you can check against the page, and text you can search and share.

Survey a field

Start when a topic is new to you, whatever your role.

1. Step 1: Open Research and type the question. Keep the Rivul Index on; turn on Library if you have saved papers.
2. Step 2: Read the cited brief and the findings table, then open the sources marked Cited.
3. Step 3: Save the sources you will use to your Library.

Result: a cited brief and a short list of sources to read.

• Research