Elicit

Elicit is a mission-driven public benefit corporation that builds AI-powered research tools designed to scale up good reasoning. Its main product, the Elicit platform, is used by more than 5m researchers to find, analyse and reason over academic literature, supporting every AI-generated claim with sentence-level citations. The company works across scientific research, academia, AI safety and evidence-based reasoning, with the stated aim of making good reasoning more affordable for everyone.

The technical work spans machine learning, natural language processing and large language models, alongside research on human-understandable task decomposition and process supervision - supervising the process rather than the outcomes. The company also pursues research on safe AGI architectures, sentence-level citation and attribution systems, and the design of scalable ML systems. The work is intended to help experts push the frontier forward while expanding collective understanding of safe AGI designs.

Engineers at Elicit own features from conception to production and ship on a weekly basis, with an emphasis on balancing rapid iteration against extensible, maintainable systems that scale. The company describes itself as people-first and advocates sustainable workplaces; its leadership has experience from Stanford, MIT and Yale, as well as from companies including Upstart, Spring, Square and Figma.