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Elicit

Structured, systematic-review-style extraction across many papers

Overview

Elicit

Same slot as Consensus, different strength: extracting structured fields across a larger set of papers.

What it is

What it is

elicit.com — a literature-review assistant built for pulling structured fields (methods, sample, findings) out of many papers at once, closer to a lightweight systematic review than a one-off synthesis.

Where it fits

Where it fits

D1·1Environment check
D1·2AGENTS.md
D1·3Literature tools
D1·4Referee skill
D1·5Subagents
D2·1Hypothesis
D2·2Design
D2·3Data lab
D2·4Results
D2·5Manuscript
D2·6Governance

The same D1·3 slot as Consensus — plus D1·4/D1·5, since literature-scout accepts an Elicit extraction the same way it accepts a Semantic Scholar result, and D2·5, since a citation backed this way can end up in the manuscript.

Access & cost

Access & cost

elicit.com, sign up with email. Free tier covers the course; Plus is ≈ €13/mo.

In the course

D1·3 exercise

Same test as Consensus: ask it the underlying question, then compare what it returns to the actual paper's abstract.

In the course

How it differs from Consensus

Consensus gives a quick synthesized answer to one question; Elicit is built for comparing methods, samples, and findings across a larger set of papers at once.

In the course

When to reach for it over Consensus

When your sub-question needs comparing several papers' methods or samples side by side, rather than one quick synthesized answer.

In the course

Same discipline applies

An extracted field is still an AI claim about a paper's content until you've opened the paper and checked — Elicit doesn't get an exemption from literature-scout's rule.

How it fits together

How it composes with Scite

Elicit tells you what a paper reports; Scite tells you whether later work still agrees with it. Different questions, both needed.

In the course

Used for positioning, too

Same Day-1 afternoon block as Consensus — finding literature gaps on your own angle, not just the shared case.

In the course

Feeds the manuscript, too

literature-scout accepts an Elicit extraction you've pasted into the chat as valid support for a citation — the same standing as a Semantic Scholar search result. Anything Elicit surfaces can end up cited in the manuscript (D2·5), and gets cross-checked again by the referee skill's citation check (D1·4).

Limits

Doesn't replace the citation-graph habit

Nothing from Elicit gets cited into a manuscript without a real, checkable source — the same literature-scout rule as everything else in this stack.

Recap

Recap

Back to D1·3's decision graph on the home page.