Reading shouldn't be
a bottleneck.
Litericaai is a research workspace for people who read for a living. We're building the tool we wished existed when we were drowning in PDFs — one that actually reads them, remembers them, and answers questions about them.
The problem
Researchers spend more time finding papers than reading them, and more time reading than writing.
Every researcher we talked to had the same three browser tabs open: a folder of unread PDFs, a half-written literature review, and a chat with a generic AI that confidently makes up citations. The PDFs never got read. The review never got finished. The AI never got grounded.
The work isn't lack of information — it's lack of attention. There's no shortage of papers. There's a shortage of bandwidth to read them, synthesize them, and remember them six months later. So we built a workspace that treats your library as a first-class object, not a backup folder.
What's different
Every answer cites a page. Every claim is auditable.
Three principles guide everything we ship:
- Grounded, not generative. The model only answers from yourcorpus. If a paper doesn't support a claim, we say so — never an invented citation.
- Comprehension, not chunking.Most “PDF chat” tools split a paper into 500-word slices and hope. We parse equations, tables, figures, and captions as first-class structured content.
- Workspace, not chatbot. Reading a paper, asking a question, drafting a review, mapping citations — these belong in one tool, not five.
A small team. A lot of papers.
Engineering & product
Built ML infrastructure for retrieval systems. Read too many transformer papers in graduate school; now reads them faster.
Document AI
Specialists in layout-aware parsing — formulas, tables, figures, multi-column flow. We obsess over the parts every other tool skips.
Research-led UX
Embedded with PhD students, postdocs, and competitive intel analysts. Every screen is shaped by someone who reads for a living.
Independent. Researcher-funded.
Litericaai is a privately-held company. We're funded by a small group of researcher-investors who believe scholarly workflows deserve better tools — and that the business model should reward us for making your library more useful, not for selling your data.
We are not VC-pressured to grow at any cost. We are not ad-supported. We don't train models on your private papers. Our incentives line up with yours: keep reading delightful, keep answers grounded, keep your library yours.
Try the workspace.
Bring your own library.
Free to start. No credit card. Cancel anytime — your library stays yours.