Can’t recommend Elicit enough if you spend lots of time with academic papers. It’s an essential part of my research process.

by James Brady

I've been trying out Elicit for a book chapter I'm writing and wanted to say thanks for such a helpful product. This is a great example of how AI should be used. I have so many research papers to go through and this makes it much easier to decide which ones are worth my time!

i like that the ceo of ramp still lists his high school retail job on his linkedin

Elicit just hit $2,000,000 annual recurring revenue, about 9 months after launching subscriptions. That is *absurdly* fast. Here’s a 🧵 about how we managed this, and how it benefits all current (and future!) Elicians.

Firstly, just how absurdly fast is this? Here’s a graph from ChartMogul which plots how fast “best-in-class” SaaS companies get to different revenue milestones. We hit $1MM ARR in about 5 months, and $2MM in 9 months. We dominate the top decile:

I've been working with the nice folks at Elicit for a few months. They've such a strong pull from the market so early, that's rare! They're hiring a Sr Designer and hands-on Head of Design, and other roles. Rare opportunity to join a small, successful team at a pivotal stage

This team has seen blazing fast revenue growth. AI to accelerate research. Watch this space.

re: Elicit 😅

🚨 We’ve substantially improved Elicit’s answers across the app: ​ - Summaries of top papers now have 78% fewer errors - Abstract summaries better follow your query with 88% fewer errors - Standard custom columns now have 37% fewer errors than before ​ All the features above

getting increasingly excited about utility agents that reliably perform some subtask (as opposed to more ambitious, splashy agents that unreliably attempt some major task). e.g. - agent that scours the internet for the pdf of a paper - agent that optimizes prompt for a specific

Me: "There's ample evidence that the first day of class significantly impacts student perceptions, motivation, and academic performance." Not me: "And where is this so-called evidence?" Me: *Spends roughly 11 seconds in Elicit* "Here you go."

tempted to start launching shit features in elicit so that shameless competitors start copying all the wrong things it's cute?

"AI tools that actually work" is about the best possible compliment you can get as an AI tool right now

Elicit is very very cool

i believe that moats are not something to be optimized for, but a natural consequence of solving an important problem 10-100x better than the alternative

the first AI employee is the notetaker

My only bit of fanboy-dom goes out to Elicit it’s such a cool company. They are doing an excellent job in advancing AI (and evaluations!)

wrote a lil' post about joining Elicit substack-proxy.glitch.me/articles/etien…

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