AI for Policy Research | Elicit: Al for scientific research
AI for policy research
Elicit is a research platform helping policy researchers synthesize more evidence
TRUSTED BY OVER 5 MILLION RESEARCHERS, INCLUDING AT
Use cases
Towards evidence-based policymaking
Those who make decisions on behalf of a large number of people have the responsibility of being as rigorous and evidence-based as possible. Elicit supports policy researchers across topic areas.
Health & well-being
Impact of Covid-19 on racial and ethnic disparities in preventive health services
Economics & labor
Example Uses & Reports
What is the estimated impact of AI on employment?
Education
Example Uses & Reports
Comparative effect sizes of early childhood educational interventions
Science & technology
Example Uses & Reports
NIH research investments vs. other national research funding agencies
Society & governance
Example Uses & Reports
Impact of electoral systems on democratic representation and citizen engagement
Housing & communities
Example Uses & Reports
Effects of rent control policies on housing market dynamics and tenant stability
Environment
Example Uses & Reports
UK net zero incentives vs. approaches in other European countries
Data sources
Elicit has all the data you need in one place
Elicit is your one-stop shop to search over high-quality research
Academic papers
Search over 138 million academic papers and conference proceedings
Updates weekly
Included sources
Clinical trials
Search over 545,000 trials
registered on clinicaltrials.gov
Updates in real-time
Included sources
BYOData
Upload your own documents
Integrate company subscriptions to access more full-text papers
Supported files
Workflows
And the tools you need to make sense of it all
Search
Quickly search in natural language over our database of 138+ million papers.
Reports
Elicit can produce detailed literature reviews of 10+ pages to summarize all of the evidence that's been published.
Data extraction
Create tables of up to 20,000 cells to compare information across thousands of documents.
Systematic reviews
Step-by-step workflows that guide you through search, screening, and data extraction for the most comprehensive evidence synthesis
Features
Urgency no longer trades off with rigor
Policy research can happen under intense time pressure. These features help researchers cover a lot of evidence, fast.
Sentence-level citations
- Elicit cites every AI-generated claim with sentence-level citations from the underlying papers.
Dynamic screening & extraction
- Sometimes you don't know which papers you want, or what information you want from them, until you see what's out there.
Elicit's interactive screening & data extraction help you explore the literature in real-time so that you can refine what you're looking for.
Accuracy & precision
- We've rigorously trained and validated Elicit's accuracy. Elicit can analyze detailed quantitative and qualitative information, even distinguishing results or intervention details by experiment arm.
It’s more than chat
- Research is a complicated, multi-step process that branches and burrows in all directions.
Researchers love Elicit's multi-step workflows and large, interactive tables that let you go broader and deeper than chat.
We support enterprises with high-stakes decisions
Data protection
Enterprise customer data is fully redacted. We do not train on this data. Our third party model providers also have zero data retention policies and guarantee no training.
SSO & SAML
We support SSO & SAML-based authentication systems to ensure seamless account management even at 10,000+ users.
SOC 2 compliant
Elicit's SOC 2 Type II report did not have any noted exceptions and was issued with a “clean” audit opinion.
Instant implementation
Elicit is immediately available for your researchers to use. There is no lengthy implementation process. But our deployment team can still develop onboarding and success plans to ensure rapid adoption.
Case studies
Trusted by top research institutions
Our team and our customers have rigorously tested and evaluated Elicit's accuracy
- VDI / VDE used Elicit's data extraction for a systematic review informing German education policy. Elicit correctly extracted 1,502 out of 1,511 data points, an accuracy rate of 99.4%.
Data extraction accuracy
99.4%
More evidence considered because of Elicit automation
Researchers at CSIRO, Australia's national science agency, compared Elicit to manual data extraction and found that Elicit had near-zero false negatives, meaning it did not miss any key information.
Data points compared to manual extraction
363
False negatives; no key information missed
0
Our team also validates accuracy by comparing Elicit results to the results of published systematic reviews. We compare search, screening, and data extraction steps.
Screening recall
94-96%
Data extraction accuracy
94-99%