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AI research assistant for source-grounded document analysis | Helping researchers and teams to build clarity from the chaos of complex knowledge

San Francisco, CA
Joined April 2023
A master’s thesis in engineering started with 42 AI tools.
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Sharly was one of the 11.
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A research tool should survive a method, not a marketing page.
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53 articles. A decade of research on territorial cohesion policy.
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Bibliometrics: VOSviewer. Content analysis: Sharly.
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Two instruments, each doing its part. The conclusions are the authors’.
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From a systematic review published this summer:
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“Eligibility determinations, study classification, data extraction, and interpretation of findings were performed by the authors and were not delegated to artificial intelligence software.”
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That’s where the line belongs.
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Sharly is an instrument, not a source.
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Cite the documents you read for the findings.
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Same rule as any bibliometric or qualitative-analysis software.
Sharly is citable.
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A versioned technical note, archived on Zenodo with a DOI: what Sharly does, how its citations work, and what it cannot do.
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Most AI tools give you nothing to cite: no version, no identifier, no document describing what they do.
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So authors write “an AI tool was used” and hope the reviewer doesn’t ask.
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We fixed that for Sharly.
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Journals now ask you to disclose every AI tool you used.
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