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The AI research assistant
that verifies every source.

Your research second brain. CoChat finds, organizes, and verifies your sources.
Extract key claims, compare findings, and turn scattered papers into research you can use.

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Built for how you actually research

Your research, from first search to useful output.

CoChat handles the busywork around your research. Find relevant papers, organize your sources, extract the evidence that matters, verify it, and turn it into outputs you can use.

Magnifying glass examines details in a list of academic sources.
Discover papers
Search 200M+ academic papers and save the sources relevant to your question.
Hand sorts extracted research findings into organized cards.
Organize and extract
Build your source library, import papers from Zotero, and pull out the claims and findings that matter.
Quoted evidence connected to an open source and marked as verified.
Verify the evidence
Check that papers exist, citations are accurate, and claims are supported before using them.
Research table with question-and-answer cards for creating structured outputs.
Create outputs
Turn your evidence into literature reviews, comparisons, summaries, flashcards, & exportable data.
The citation problem

1 in 4 citations in published research misrepresents its source.

CoChat tracks all sources and citations, verifies them against platforms like CrossRef or SemanticScholar and highlights the ones that could not be matched. 

Jergas & Baethge, meta-analysis of 28 studies (PeerJ, 2015)

CoChat · citation check
Smith et al. claim a 40% reduction in relapse…
10.1000/xyz.fake.2021
✕ Source doesn’t support this claim
Thompson & Lee (2023) report a 12% effect size…
10.7717/peerj.1364
✓ Verified against source
Your AI Research Toolkit

Everything for your research,
in one workspace.

Search papers, verify citations, and organize your deliverables.
Edited live. Exported anywhere. Every source checked.

Thesis Literature Review · Verified Sources Every source checked
Social Media & Adolescent Mental Health 24 papers · 3 unverified ?
PaperKey finding
Twenge2019Verified
Increases in depressive symptoms and screen time among U.S. adolescents
Twenge J, Joiner T · 2019
Clinical Psychological Science
 Depressive symptoms rose alongside screen-based media use over the study window.
Orben2019Verified
The association between adolescent well-being and digital technology use
Orben A, Przybylski A · 2019
Nature Human Behaviour
 Effect size is small — comparable to everyday variables like wearing glasses.
Blog_n.d.Unverified
Social media causes a 70% rise in teen anxiety
Anonymous · n.d.
Personal blog — no DOI found
 Causal claim with no methodology or peer review. Flagged for removal.
“What sample size did Twenge et al. (2019) use, and is it cited correctly?”
Claude
“Twenge et al. (2019) surveyed roughly 1,200 adolescents…”
Citation detail unverified
ChatGPT
“The study draws on the Monitoring the Future dataset — n ≈ 500,000 across years. Source confirmed.”
Verified against source
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Work Together

Research is better with
collaborators.

Invite your advisor, your co-authors, or your study group into the same AI workspace. Share sources, compare outputs, review drafts — all in one conversation.

  • Invite collaborators into any conversation — advisor, co-author, study group
  • Share AI outputs, sources, and citations in real time
  • Shared projects, assistants, and artifacts across your group
  • Every conversation is exportable and searchable
  • Check a co-author's draft or a student's paper.
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One decision left before we lock the screening protocol.
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Marcel
Include preprints in the search, or restrict to peer reviewed?
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Of the 214 sources screened, 31% are preprints. Nine were later published with no change in findings. I pinned the screening log.
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Include them. We tag preprint status and recheck at extraction.
Decision pinned · Include preprints, flagged at extraction
Priya
Marcel
Lin
Set It. Forget It.

Automate the routine.
Focus on the research.

Set up AI agents that monitor new publications, flag citation updates, and deliver weekly reading summaries on a schedule you control.

Weekly leadership digest
RECIPE_001
SCHEDULE
Every Monday, 8:00 AM
  1. Pull #leadership messages
  2. Summarize with Scout
  3. Post to leadership-digest
ACTIVE
Research Review
RECIPE_002
WEBHOOK
New Paper Published
  1. Review Citations with Semantic Scholar
  2. Auto-tag reviewers
  3. Draft summary in Linear
ACTIVE
Customer onboarding
RECIPE_003
EVENT
New "Closed Won" in CRM
  1. Generate kickoff doc in md
  2. Provision shared room
  3. Email new customer
ACTIVE
Integrations

Plugs into the tools you already use.

Search across arXiv, PubMed, Semantic Scholar, and more. Connect to your LMS, your drive, your workflow tools — all from one workspace. 200+ integrations and growing.

Verify every source. Keep the thinking yours.
CoChat
Chapter 06
Match the tool to the stage
Tool Best at
ChatGPT
Perplexity
Elicit
Scite
CoChat
Discovery tools for finding, summarizers for orienting, and a verification-capable workspace where accuracy is non-negotiable.
Chapter 09
Three free templates
01AI use disclosure statement
02Literature review table
03Tool evaluation checklist
Download the templates
Every statistic attributed to a named, dated, primary source.
Chapter 05 · verification
Checked against the source record
Kobak et al. · Science Advances
Zhao et al. · arXiv 2605.07723
Naser · arXiv 2603.03299
Confirm it exists, confirm the metadata, then confirm it says what you are citing it for.
Chapter 05
The verification workflow
1
Confirm it exists
2
Check the metadata
3
Read the claim it supports
4
Format from the record
Try this Run your last five citations through steps 1–3.
Cross-model audit
11.4–56.8% of citations fabricated across ten deployed AI models. Newer models did not reliably do better.
13.5% of 2024 biomedical abstracts show signs of AI-assisted writing — nearly 40% in some fields.
Naser, 2026 · Science Advances, 2025
Chapter 05
Why AI invents citations
A citation looks like a pattern: author, year, plausible title, real-sounding journal. A model asked for one generates text that fits the pattern perfectly.
A model generating a citation from memory is guessing what a real one looks like.
This is not a bug that will be patched away. It is a direct consequence of how generation works.
The CoChat guide · 2026
The Definitive Guide to AI Literacy for Academic Research
From literature review to citation
CoChat Every statistic sourced
Chapter 05 · fabrication
146,932
Fabricated, non-existent citations estimated across arXiv, bioRxiv, SSRN and PubMed Central in 2025 alone.
Zhao et al., 2026 · 111M references across 2.5M papers

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AI literacy for academic research — from literature review to citation.

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9 chapters3 free templatesEvery statistic sourced
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CoChat is built on Open WebUI, the most widely used open-source AI interface.

We extended that foundation with shared agents, team memory, automation, and 70+ integrations — turning a powerful individual tool into a platform teams can run on.

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Other AIs guess.
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