A system that trains you to become a better researcher
Research Brainie is not a one-click summary. Everything below is a capability the product actually has today, each with a small mockup of what it looks like in use.
Research Brainie
Every paper becomes a structured knowledge record you own and edit. The system remembers your prior thinking and points out contradictions in your own reasoning over time.
Why Most Published Research Findings Are False
Socratic Research Coach
A mentor that asks questions instead of giving answers. Why do you believe that? What evidence supports it? Could there be another explanation?
Why do you believe that?
Because the sample size was large enough.
What does the paper say a large enough sample actually rules out here?
Knowledge Connections
Papers are not isolated. Brainie connects theories, methods, and findings across your entire library, with reasons rather than keywords.
Ioannidis (2005)
Simmons et al. (2011)
Both already in your library.
Critical Evaluation Framework
A structured framework for argument, theory, methodology, evidence, analysis, limitations, generalisability, and alternative explanations.
Research Gap Detection
Conservative gap identification with confidence levels and evidence, and an explicit warning that not having found research about something is not the same as none existing.
No study yet compares this across clinical fields
Moderate confidenceNot having found research on this is not the same as none existing — check a full literature search before building on it.
Publication record check
Every paper is checked against the open records for retractions, expressions of concern and corrections, and for any retracted paper it cites. You see the facts, with dates and links, before you judge it.
How this check works, and what it cannot seeWhat to read next
After each paper, Brainie follows its citations backwards and forwards and picks the few papers most worth your time, with one line on why each matters to your research. Retracted papers are never suggested.
Simmons, Nelson & Simonsohn (2011)
Same statistical mechanism, applied to psychology.
Ioannidis (2005)
Cited by 40,000+ papers — the argument this builds on.
Add papers by DOI
Paste a paper's DOI and Brainie fills in its details, warns you if it has been retracted, and fetches a legal free copy where one exists. No downloading and re-uploading.
Bring your reading list
Import a reference list from Zotero, Mendeley, EndNote or ResearchRabbit straight into your reading queue, and export citations back out as BibTeX or RIS.
42 papers imported · 3 already in your queue
Reading groups
A supervisor sets a paper for the class. Everyone reads it and answers on their own, then sees how the rest of the group answered. A set paper costs the group one credit for every two students, and nobody's private papers are shared.
PSY701 · Week 4 paper
18 / 24have answered Pass 2 so far.
Hallucination Protection
Every analytical claim is classified as directly supported, inferred, external knowledge, or uncertain. Brainie does not invent quotes, page numbers, or findings.
The effect held across three replications directly supported
This likely generalises to related fields inferred