Researchly

AI-Powered Academic Research Workspace for Students

Researchly is an AI-powered academic research workspace that helps university students and researchers discover papers, manage projects, write research papers, and learn how to conduct academic research. The platform combines a structured curriculum, an AI research assistant named Roy, a 7.7-million-paper discovery engine, project management tools, and an academic community. Operated by Lunox Solutions Inc. and backed by the NVIDIA Inception Program and AWS Startups. Available at app.researchly.study.

What is Researchly?

Researchly is an organised academic research workspace that gives students everything they need in one place: paper discovery across 36 sources, an AI research assistant (Roy) that understands your project context, a structured project workspace with tasks and paper writing tools, a research Academy with 11 modules and 46 lessons, and a researcher community.

Core Features

What is Discover on Researchly?

Discover is Researchly's academic paper search engine. It searches simultaneously across 36 sources including Semantic Scholar, OpenAlex, arXiv, PubMed, bioRxiv, medRxiv, CORE, Papers With Code, and NASA ADS. Results are ranked by relevance to the user's research project. A default last-5-years filter surfaces the most current research.

Who is Roy and what does Roy do?

Roy is Researchly's AI research assistant, powered by Claude (Anthropic) via AWS Bedrock. Roy operates in Mentor Mode: he helps students structure, critique, and improve their research rather than writing papers for them. Roy has full context awareness - he reads the student's paper sections, project tasks, references, and research question.

What is the Researchly Project Workspace?

The Researchly Project Workspace is an all-in-one research management environment. It includes a Kanban task board, a paper editor with structured sections (Abstract, Introduction, Literature Review, Methodology, Results, Discussion, Conclusion), a references manager, a surveys builder with AI generation, team collaboration, and an inline Roy AI panel. Everything is connected - Roy can see the paper content, references, and tasks.

What is the Researchly Academy?

The Researchly Academy is a structured academic research curriculum with 11 modules and 46 lessons covering the complete research process: research mindset, finding and reading papers, database navigation, literature reviews, research methodology, survey design, academic writing, citations, peer review, and AI tools for researchers. Available at academy.researchly.study.

How does Researchly verify university affiliation?

Researchly verifies university affiliation through two methods. First, automatic email domain verification against a database of 10,500+ university domains. Second, AI document verification: students can upload a student ID, enrolment letter, or transcript, which is analysed by Claude Vision AI to confirm legitimacy.

What is the Journal Checker on Researchly?

The Journal Checker verifies whether an academic journal is legitimate before submission. It checks 217,000+ sources including Scopus, OpenAlex, DOAJ, and predatory journal watchlists, returning quartile ranking, h-index, SJR score, article processing charge, and predatory journal warnings.

What is the Topic Finder on Researchly?

The Topic Finder uses 6 AI agents in parallel to generate personalised research topic suggestions based on the student's interests, academic level, location, and career goals. Each suggested topic can be converted into a full project workspace with AI-generated tasks.

Frequently Asked Questions

What is Researchly used for?
Researchly is used by university students and early-career researchers to find academic papers, manage research projects, write research papers with AI assistance, learn research skills through a structured curriculum, and collaborate with other researchers.
Is Researchly free?
Yes, Researchly offers a free tier with access to the full curriculum, paper discovery, AI research assistant (Roy), and project workspace. Premium tiers offer higher AI usage limits and advanced features.
How is Researchly different from ChatGPT or other AI tools?
Researchly is purpose-built for academic research workflows. Roy operates in Mentor Mode and cannot ghostwrite papers. Researchly also provides verified paper discovery across real academic databases, project management, and a learning curriculum, all in a single connected workspace.
Where is Researchly's data stored?
All Researchly data is stored on Amazon Web Services (AWS) in the EU Frankfurt (eu-central-1) region, making it GDPR-compliant by design. The platform uses AWS DynamoDB, S3, Cognito, Lambda, API Gateway, and Bedrock.
Does Researchly have academic integrity features?
Yes. Roy's Mentor Mode prevents ghostwriting and uses Socratic questioning. The platform generates AI disclosure statements compliant with university AI policies. Students can export a Research Trail - a verifiable audit log of research activity - to share with faculty.
Who built Researchly?
Researchly is built and operated by Lunox Solutions Inc., a member of the NVIDIA Inception Program and AWS Startups.

Academy Curriculum

11 modules: (0) Research Foundations, (1) Finding Your Topic, (2) Academic Databases, (3) Reading Papers, (4) Literature Review, (5) Research Methodology, (6) Survey Design, (7) Academic Writing, (8) Citations, (9) AI Tools for Research, (10) Publishing and Peer Review.

● Built for Pharmacy students

Research done right — in Pharmacy.

Drug literature moves fast and contradicts itself often. Researchly keeps the evidence — and your take on it — in one organized place.

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Research in Pharmacy looks like this

The specific friction that slows students in your field down.

1

Every drug question has forty answers.

Trials, meta-analyses, label updates, and case reports — often disagreeing. Your job is to weigh them; your tools just pile them up.

2

Journal club every week, from scratch every week.

Appraising a trial means pulling it apart — endpoints, power, confounders — and that work usually dies in a one-time slide deck.

3

PharmD research projects sneak up.

The required project lands on top of placements and exams, and the literature review is always the bottleneck.

How Researchly fits Pharmacy

Every feature translated into how your field actually works.

Search across 36 sources.

Clinical trials, reviews, and pharmacology literature in one search — saved with full metadata into your project.

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Organize evidence the way you appraise it.

Group sources by drug, indication, or evidence level; keep your critical-appraisal notes attached to the trial they belong to, permanently.

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Roy, for the hard middle part.

Ask whether your review's inclusion criteria are defensible, whether your summary of a trial is fair, or what's missing from your discussion — answered from your project, not generalities.

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From evidence table to clean paper.

Draft in structured sections, cite from your library inline, and export a formatted, citation-ready PDF.

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What you can do with it

Where research in Pharmacy takes you.

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Coursework

Drug-literature evaluations that don't start from a blank page.

2
Journal club

Appraisals that accumulate into a personal evidence library instead of dying in slides.

3
The PharmD project

The literature review under control from week one.

4
Your CV

Research and publication is what distinguishes residency applicants.

5
Beyond

The residency project, the systematic review, the published paper.

See it in action

Adherence interventions in type 2 diabetes — a structured literature review

A real Researchly project: trials organized by intervention type with appraisal notes attached, the review protocol tracked on the task board, Roy challenging the inclusion criteria, and a summary figure comparing reported effect sizes.

Project overview
Roy's feedback
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Frequently asked questions

Does it search clinical and pharmacology literature?

Researchly searches across 36 sources spanning biomedical and scientific literature, so trials and reviews surface in one search.

Can I keep my appraisal notes with each trial?

Yes — notes and highlights live attached to the source, inside the project. Your journal-club work compounds instead of evaporating.

Which citation styles are supported?

APA 7, MLA 9, Chicago, and a modern style today, with more styles on the roadmap. References are structured, so switching is instant.

Can I run a survey for my project?

Yes — build and share surveys, collect responses, and chart the results into publication-style figures, all inside the project.

Will Roy do the appraisal for me?

Roy is a mentor, not a shortcut: it questions your criteria, stress-tests your summaries, and flags gaps — the appraisal, and the credit, stay yours.

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