Cut your literature review
from weeks to hours.
StateOfArt helps students and researchers find, organize, compare, and synthesize academic papers into a structured state-of-the-art review — without the chaos of 40 tabs and 100 PDFs.
Literature reviews are not hard because papers are impossible to find.
They are hard because the process is chaotic: you open 40 tabs, download 100 PDFs, lose track of what you read, miss key references, and end up with disconnected notes scattered across Notion, Zotero, and Slack DMs.
- • Endless keyword variations on Google Scholar
- • PDFs piling up in Downloads folders
- • No memory of what each paper actually said
- • No structured comparison across methods
- • Citation chains broken across sessions
StateOfArt turns that chaos into a structured research workflow.
Create a project, collect papers, summarize them, compare methods, find research gaps, and generate a structured draft you can refine — without leaving the app.
- • One workspace per research question
- • Multi-source legal search, deduplicated
- • Structured AI summaries grounded in your library
- • Transparent ranking with explainable scores
- • A SOTA draft that's a real starting point — not a hallucination
A real workflow, not a prompt.
Create a project
Define your research question, field, keywords, and date range. Everything stays scoped to this project.
Find legal papers
Search OpenAlex, Semantic Scholar, arXiv, Crossref, and CORE — or upload PDFs you legally own.
Summarize · rank · compare
AI summaries, transparent ranking, and a comparison matrix — all grounded in the papers you actually saved.
Synthesize the SOTA
Generate a structured state-of-the-art draft, edit it, then export to Markdown / BibTeX / CSV.
From "what should I read?" to a structured draft.
StateOfArt is not a chat-with-PDF gimmick. It's a complete research workflow: search · save · summarize · rank · compare · synthesize.
Legal multi-source search
Search OpenAlex, Semantic Scholar, Crossref, arXiv, and CORE in one query — deduplicated and ranked. No Sci-Hub. No paywall bypass.
Project-aware paper library
Save papers, tag them, set status (unread, reading, included, rejected), filter by year, venue, and relevance.
Structured AI summaries
Problem · method · dataset · results · limitations · relevance. Always tagged with the source basis (abstract or full text).
Relevance ranking
A transparent score combining relevance, citation impact, recency, methodological match, venue, and full-text quality.
Comparison matrix
Method, dataset, metrics, strengths, weaknesses — generated for each paper, editable inline, exportable to CSV/Markdown.
Research gap finder
Surface recurring limitations, underexplored angles, and concrete research directions grounded in your saved corpus.
SOTA draft generator
One-click structured state-of-the-art draft: introduction, foundations, recent work, comparison, gaps, positioning.
Citation graph
Visualize cites and references with React Flow. Color by relevance score, mark must-reads, filter by year.
Upload PDFs you own
Drag-and-drop PDFs you have legal access to. We extract text and use it for richer summaries — never redistributed.
Research Copilot
A project-aware assistant that ranks, compares, and synthesizes — never invents citations, always grounded in your library.
Meet your Research Copilot.
Ask StateOfArt to summarize your papers, rank them by relevance, group them by method, find research gaps, and generate a structured state-of-the-art outline.
It does not just chat with PDFs. It helps you decide what matters.
- Few works evaluate beyond simulated benchmarks.
- No paper handles long-horizon reasoning end-to-end.
- Reproducibility is limited to single-seed reporting.
Pick the plan that matches your review.
Start free. Upgrade when your literature review becomes serious.
For exploration
- 1 active research project
- 25 saved papers
- 5 AI summaries / month
- 1 SOTA draft / month
- Citation graph up to 10 nodes
- Copy text only (no exports)
For students & PhD candidates
- 10 active projects
- 500 saved papers
- 150 AI summaries / month
- 20 SOTA drafts / month
- Comparison matrix
- Markdown · CSV · BibTeX export
- Citation graph up to 250 nodes
For active researchers
- Unlimited projects
- 3,000 saved papers
- 1,000 AI summaries / month
- Unlimited SOTA drafts (fair use)
- Advanced synthesis modes
- Full export suite
- Citation graph up to 2,000 nodes
For research labs & teams
- Everything in Researcher
- Shared lab projects
- Higher AI usage ceilings
- Team seats (coming soon)
- Priority support
Frequently asked questions
Stop drowning in PDFs.
Start writing your review.
Create a project in 30 seconds. Find papers in minutes. Generate a structured state-of-the-art draft today.