Elicit — AI-Powered Research Automation for Small Business Researchers and Analysts

Stop spending 20+ hours manually reviewing research papers and organizing findings—Elicit uses AI to automate your entire research workflow so you can extract insights in minutes instead of weeks.

What It Does for Your Business

Elicit is an AI research assistant that automates the tedious parts of literature review, competitive analysis, and market research. Instead of manually reading hundreds of papers or articles, you describe what you're looking for, and Elicit's language models scan research databases, extract relevant findings, summarize key points, and organize results into structured tables. Your team spends less time hunting for information and more time acting on insights that actually drive business decisions.

Whether you're a consulting firm validating client strategies, a healthcare startup researching treatment efficacy, a fintech company analyzing regulatory trends, or a product team benchmarking competitors, Elicit cuts research time by 60-80%. You upload papers, ask questions in plain English, and get back organized summaries with sources cited—no coding required. The tool integrates with your existing workflows so researchers can focus on analysis instead of data collection.

Key Features

• Automated Paper Screening — Upload or search academic databases; AI rapidly filters thousands of papers down to the most relevant ones for your question, saving 15+ hours per literature review project
• Instant Summaries & Data Extraction — Get key findings, methodology, and results from papers in seconds instead of reading cover-to-cover; automatically extracts tables and structured data
• Q&A Across Multiple Sources — Ask research questions in plain English and get answers synthesized from dozens of papers at once, with citations so you can verify claims
• Structured Output & Tables — Organize research findings into comparison tables, timelines, and matrices ready for presentations or reports without manual reformatting
• No Machine Learning Background Required — Built for non-technical researchers; simply describe your research goal and let AI handle the complex work
• Academic & Public Source Access — Search PubMed, arXiv, Google Scholar, and other databases directly from Elicit, plus upload proprietary documents

Best For

Management consulting firms, market research agencies, healthcare and biotech startups, financial services companies, legal research departments, competitive intelligence teams, academic institutions, policy research organizations, and product teams at tech companies conducting user research or market validation.

Pricing

Freemium model. Free tier includes limited searches and paper uploads; paid plans start at approximately $15-20/month for power users, with enterprise licensing available for larger teams.

Business ROI

A typical research project that takes a small business analyst 40 hours using traditional methods (reading, note-taking, organizing) drops to 8-10 hours with Elicit—a savings of 30-32 hours per project, or roughly $900-$1,200 per research cycle at fully-loaded labor costs. For agencies billing research time to clients, Elicit improves margins and allows you to take on more projects. For internal research teams, you eliminate bottlenecks and reduce time-to-insight from weeks to days, meaning your organization acts on market data while it's still relevant.