Afforai

Afforai Overview

Afforai is an AI-powered research assistant that simplifies complex research by searching, summarizing, and translating information from multiple sources to produce trustworthy insights. It allows users to manage papers and research from anywhere, supporting various document types like website URLs, PDFs, EPUBs, TXT files, and DOI[1][3].

Key Features of Afforai

• Organizes research by creating personal folders and shareable libraries, with collaboration features[3].
• Annotates and creates notes while auto-generating citations using metadata[3].
• Provides an AI research assistant to review literature, summarize and compare papers, and analyze dense texts[3].
• Works in over 100 languages, allowing users to upload and ask questions in various languages[3].
• Answers questions with multiple citations from uploaded files, Google results, and a database of over 200 million peer-reviewed papers[3][5].
• Offers side-by-side document views, enabling users to access research docs next to the chat window[3].

Afforai aims to help researchers, PhD candidates, professors, students, solopreneurs, and consultants streamline their research process by providing a powerful AI tool to distill knowledge from numerous sources[2][5]. The company, founded in 2023, is based in Austin, Texas, and is backed by Plug and Play Tech Center[2].