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 Psychology students

Research done right — in Psychology.

Design the study, run the survey, analyze the responses, write it up in APA — Researchly is built for exactly this loop.

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Research in Psychology looks like this

The specific friction that slows students in your field down.

1

Your method is the survey — and survey tools aren't research tools.

Questionnaires live in one app, responses in a spreadsheet, sources in tabs, the draft somewhere else. Nothing connects.

2

APA 7 is unforgiving.

Running head, hanging indents, in-text/reference agreement — formatting eats the time the analysis needed.

3

Methods sections get torn apart.

Sampling, measures, validity — the section everyone loses marks on is the one no tool helps you think through.

How Researchly fits Psychology

Every feature translated into how your field actually works.

Surveys are native.

Build your questionnaire inside the project, share it by link or QR, and watch responses land next to your literature — one loop, not four apps.

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Real figures from real responses.

Turn your data into clean, APA-style charts — grouped comparisons, distributions — captioned and numbered in your paper.

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Roy reads your method.

Ask whether your sample justifies your claims, whether your measures fit your constructs, or what a marker would flag in your discussion — grounded in your study.

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APA 7 export, properly.

Structured sections, formatted title page, hanging-indent references generated from your actual source library. Search across 36 sources to build it.

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What you can do with it

Where research in Psychology takes you.

1
Intro courses

Literature summaries that are organized from day one.

2
Methods courses

Your first real study — designed, run, and written up in one place.

3
The dissertation / thesis

A full empirical project with the data trail intact.

4
Your CV

Running real studies is what distinguishes grad-school applicants in psychology.

5
Beyond

The conference poster, the honors thesis, the first publication.

See it in action

Social media use and exam anxiety in undergraduates — a survey study

A real Researchly project end to end: the literature organized by construct, a survey built and distributed inside the project, responses charted into an APA-style figure, and Roy critiquing the limitations section before submission.

Project overview
Roy's feedback
Results figure

Frequently asked questions

Is the export really APA 7?

Yes — title page, structured sections, and a hanging-indent reference list generated from your source library. (MLA 9, Chicago, and a modern style are also available.)

Can I actually collect data with it?

Yes — build the survey, share it by link, QR, or message, and responses collect inside your project, ready to chart.

What about ethics approval?

That stays with your institution's process — Researchly keeps your protocol, consent text, and materials organized in one place for the application.

Can Roy help with statistics?

Roy helps you reason about your design and interpret your findings against your sources. It's a mentor for your thinking — the analysis decisions remain yours.

Will Roy write my discussion section?

No. Roy critiques and strengthens what you write — which is what keeps the work genuinely yours and academically safe.

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