spb/tools-spboucher-ai

1{2  "slug": "consensus",3  "name": "Consensus",4  "aliases": ["Consensus AI", "consensus.app"],5  "vendor": { "name": "Consensus", "slug": "consensus", "website": "https://consensus.app" },6  "homepage_url": "https://consensus.app/",7  "pricing_url": "https://consensus.app/pricing/",8  "product_type": "platform",9  "product_status": "active",10  "summary": "AI search engine over peer-reviewed literature that synthesizes answers, shows a Consensus Meter for yes/no questions and summarizes studies",11  "description": "Consensus is a hosted search engine for scientific literature that answers natural-language questions with synthesized text grounded in peer-reviewed papers. Its distinctive features are the Consensus Meter, which displays the balance of findings for yes/no questions, Study Snapshots that summarize methods and results, Pro Search and Deep Search modes for more thorough synthesis, an \"Ask Paper\" chat for single documents, collections, a citation graph view, and export of references in RIS, BibTeX and CSV.\n\nThe product is free to start with paid individual plans on monthly or annual billing and team, organization and university offerings; the public pages do not name the bibliographic sources it indexes.\n\nBecause answers are generated by language models over abstracts and full texts, the meter and summaries are a triage aid and the underlying papers should still be read before citing.",12  "capabilities": ["Natural-language search over peer-reviewed papers", "Consensus Meter for yes/no questions", "Study Snapshots summarizing methods and findings", "Pro Search and Deep Search synthesis modes", "Ask Paper chat and collections", "Citation export in RIS, BibTeX and CSV"],13  "workflows": ["Quick evidence check on a factual question", "Collecting candidate papers before a formal review"],14  "advantages": ["Free tier to start", "Answers cite the specific studies used"],15  "limitations": ["Sources of the index are not disclosed publicly", "Generated summaries require verification", "Help centre blocks automated access, limiting documentation review"],16  "prerequisites": ["Web browser; account for saved collections"],17  "audiences": ["Students", "Clinicians and practitioners", "Researchers scoping a question"],18  "alternatives": ["elicit", "scite", "semantic-scholar", "google-scholar"],19  "comparison_notes": "Elicit emphasizes structured extraction into tables; scite classifies individual citations; Consensus is optimized for direct question answering with an agreement indicator.",20  "categories": [{ "slug": "academic-discovery", "primary": true }],21  "tags": ["llm", "rag", "citations"],22  "use_cases": ["write-papers"],23  "operating_systems": ["web"],24  "execution_modes": ["cloud"],25  "interfaces": ["web"],26  "deployment_models": ["saas"],27  "integrations": ["Zotero (via RIS/BibTeX export)"],28  "data_formats": ["RIS", "BibTeX", "CSV"],29  "languages": [],30  "source_model": "proprietary",31  "pricing_model": ["freemium", "paid", "enterprise"],32  "pricing_checked_at": "2026-11-02",33  "self_hostable": false,34  "sources": [35    { "url": "https://consensus.app/", "type": "official_site", "title": "Consensus: AI for Research", "supports": ["name", "summary", "capabilities"], "checked_at": "2026-11-02" },36    { "url": "https://consensus.app/pricing/", "type": "pricing_page", "title": "Pricing", "supports": ["pricing_model"], "checked_at": "2026-11-02" }37  ],38  "confidence": "medium",39  "uncertainty_note": "The pricing page renders plan details client-side; only the individual/team/enterprise structure and monthly/annual billing could be confirmed.",40  "discovery_method": "editorial-research",41  "depth": "standard",42  "editorial_status": "reviewed",43  "visibility": "public",44  "featured": false,45  "author": "batch-E"46}47