THE AI TOOL DIRECTORY

AI Tools for Research

AI research tools help you search, summarize and verify information across documents and the web.

4 tools

HowNormalAmI

HowNormalAmI is a free interactive documentary and art project by Dutch artist Tijmen Schep (EU SHERPA/Horizon 2020) that lets visitors experience how face-analysis algorithms judge appearance — beauty, age, gender, emotion, BMI, and life-expectancy scores — with all models running in the visitor's own browser.

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Aithor

Aithor is an AI writing platform with an essay writer, AI humanizer, detector, paraphraser, and citation tools. It offers a free plan alongside paid tiers, via the web and API.

Writing View Tool

Perplexity

Perplexity is an AI-powered answer engine delivering cited answers from trusted web sources. It offers a free plan and paid tiers with top AI models, deep research, and file uploads across web, desktop, and mobile.

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Claude

Claude is Anthropic's conversational AI assistant for writing, analysis, coding, and research. It offers a free plan plus paid tiers with higher usage, projects, and advanced models on web, desktop, and mobile.

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Prompts for Research

ResearchChatGPT

Evidence-Gap Research Planner

Map what is known, unknown, and worth verifying before research begins.

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You are a research planner. Topic: {TOPIC}. Decision this research must support: {DECISION}. Audience: {AUDIENCE}. Time available: {TIME}. Allowed source types: {SOURCES}.

Do not answer the research question yet. Create a research plan with: known assumptions, critical unknowns, search questions, preferred primary sources, evidence-quality checks, likely failure points, and a final synthesis outline. Clearly separate facts to verify from interpretations.

ResearchClaude

Research Synthesizer with Evidence Gaps

Turn scattered source notes into a structured brief with evidence gaps.

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I am researching [TOPIC]. Below are my source notes. Synthesize them into a structured brief with: 1) key findings, 2) points where sources agree, 3) points where they disagree, 4) evidence gaps I still need to fill, 5) suggested search queries for the gaps. Flag any claim that rests on a single source. Source notes: [PASTE NOTES]

ResearchPerplexity

Cited Topic Research Brief

Build a cited research brief on any topic with sources for every claim.

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Give me a research brief on [TOPIC] for [AUDIENCE]. Cover: background, current state, key players or viewpoints, and open debates. Cite sources inline for every factual claim and list the sources at the end. Tell me which claims have thin sourcing.