Consensus

About Consensus

Consensus is an AI-powered research search engine that answers questions using evidence from peer-reviewed scientific literature, providing consensus meters that visualize how much the body of research agrees or disagrees on a given topic. Users search in natural language and receive AI-synthesized summaries of what the research says, with every claim linked to its supporting paper. Consensus indexes over 200 million papers from Semantic Scholar and applies AI to assess the direction and confidence of findings across the literature. It is designed to make research-backed answers accessible to non-experts—whether journalists fact-checking claims, policymakers assessing evidence, or students writing research papers. Consensus's GPT-4-powered Copilot synthesizes answers in conversational form while maintaining full traceability to primary sources.