Elicit is an AI-powered research assistant designed to help researchers and organizations automate and accelerate evidence-based research. The platform enables users to search over 138 million academic papers and 545,000 clinical trials, leveraging advanced semantic search to surface relevant results without requiring precise keywords. Elicit supports a range of research workflows, including generating customizable research briefs, automating systematic literature reviews, extracting data from both text and figures, and organizing sources for future use. Its tools are trusted by over 5 million researchers across industries such as pharmaceuticals, academia, medical devices, policy, consumer goods, and technology, offering significant time savings and increased accuracy in evidence synthesis.
As a public benefit company, Elicit is driven by a mission to scale up good reasoning and make high-quality research more accessible and efficient. The company emphasizes transparency, accuracy, and scientific rigor, supporting all AI-generated claims with sentence-level citations. Employees at Elicit are part of a team that values truth-seeking, craftsmanship, and open communication, working on impactful problems at the intersection of AI and scientific discovery. The company fosters a collaborative environment where individuals are encouraged to explore, innovate, and contribute to tools that help society make better, evidence-based decisions.