Elicit vs Sharly AI
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AI research assistant for literature reviews, paper search, evidence tables and automated research reports with freemium access and paid tiers.
Sharly AI is a secure research workspace that summarizes and compares documents with citations, supports multi-format uploads like PDF and DOCX plus Notion exports, and emphasizes encryption and no training on your content for faster evidence checking.
Feature Tags Comparison
Key Features
- Paper search with AI ranked relevance and filters
- PDF upload with table and claim extraction
- Auto generated evidence tables and reports
- Keyword search across PubMed and clinical trials
- Research Agent workflows for broad overviews
- Alerts that notify when new studies match topics
- Multi-format upload: Import PDF and DOCX plus Notion exports so the same workflow works across research sources
- Source-backed summaries: Generate summaries with citations so readers can jump to supporting passages and verify claims
- Compare documents: Cross-check multiple documents to surface conflicts matches and missing details for evidence review
- Semantic extraction: Pull topics entities and figures at scale to speed up structured analysis from long files
- Security design: Uses encryption at rest and in transit with a zero-knowledge architecture described on product pages
- No training claim: Pricing page states no training data for LLMs on paid plans which supports sensitive workflows
Use Cases
- Accelerate literature reviews for grant proposals
- Build evidence tables for clinical or policy briefs
- Map competitive landscapes and prior art quickly
- Monitor new trials and studies with automated alerts
- Extract outcomes and populations from uploaded PDFs
- Prepare reading lists for product and UX research
- Policy briefs: Summarize long reports with citations so stakeholders can verify evidence without reading the full file
- Competitive research: Compare vendor PDFs to spot conflicting claims and missing proof before a decision
- Due diligence: Validate key statements across contracts and memos with cited passages for faster legal review
- Academic review: Extract methods and results from papers then compare findings across multiple studies
- Meeting prep: Turn reference docs into a short cited brief before calls so you ask better questions
- Board updates: Build defensible summaries that link to sources so executives can drill down when needed
Perfect For
researchers evidence synthesis teams clinical affairs product and policy analysts students and faculty who need rigorous literature reviews with traceable sources
researchers, analysts, consultants, students, compliance teams, legal reviewers, product managers, and knowledge workers who need source-backed document summaries plus secure multi-format uploads
Capabilities
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