One place for your entire research workflow.
Right now, writing a paper means bouncing between your PDF reader, notes app, citation manager, and Word. That context-switching is where your time goes. CrucibleIQ puts it all in one place.
Stop juggling databases. Search once.
What it does
You're searching one database for one thing, Google Scholar for another, your university library for a third. None of them talk to each other. Explain what you're researching, the context, and what you're trying to find, like you're talking to a fellow researcher. One search across 474M+ academic papers. One set of results.
How it works
Understands your research intent. You describe your research question and the context behind it, and get relevant papers from across disciplines instead of keyword noise from six different tabs.
The hours you'd spend hopping between databases? One search, one place.
AI Research Assistant
Video coming soonSee how one plain-language search replaces hours of database-hopping.
Read, annotate, and write without switching apps.
What it does
Right now you're probably reading PDFs in one app, taking notes in another, and writing in a third. Every time you switch, you lose focus. Read your sources right where you write your paper. Highlight passages, leave comments, and every annotation stays linked to the exact page and passage.
How it works
A full PDF viewer built into your workspace. Your highlights and comments live with the source, so when you're writing and need to check a quote, it's right there.
Your sources and your writing live in the same place. The alt-tabbing between your PDF reader, notes app, and Word doc is just gone.
PDF Viewer & Annotations
Video coming soonSee how reading, annotating, and writing happen in one workspace. No app-switching.
Upload a PDF. Skip the data entry.
What it does
Every citation manager makes you type in the title, authors, journal, date, and DOI by hand. Or you copy-paste from the publisher's site and hope the formatting doesn't break. Upload your PDF and all of that is extracted automatically: title, authors, publication date, journal, DOI, and full text. Ready to search and cite immediately.
How it works
Works with journal articles, conference papers, dissertations, and more, including complex layouts with columns, figures, and tables. Handles the messy formatting so you don't have to.
Every source is searchable and citable the moment you upload it. The tedious data entry is gone.
Automatic Metadata Extraction
Video coming soonWatch a PDF upload turn into a fully searchable, citable source in seconds.
Citations aren't formatting. They're the foundation.
What it does
Most tools treat citations as a formatting problem you deal with at the end. We built the entire platform around them. Sources carry verified metadata. Quotes link to specific passages. In-text citations are real connections between what you wrote and where it came from, down to the page number.
How it works
Citations are data objects, so everything flows from them. Drag an annotation into the Writer and the citation generates itself, parenthetical or narrative, in any style. Switch from APA to Chicago with one click and every citation reformats instantly. The bibliography builds itself from your actual citations. Retraction checking works because citations point to real, verifiable sources.
Your bibliography matches your in-text citations because they're built from the same data. Claims trace back to real sources and real pages. That foundation is what makes everything else in CrucibleIQ work.
Citation Management
Video coming soonDrag annotations in and citations generate automatically. Switch styles with one click.
Know before you submit.
What it does
Papers get retracted, corrected, or flagged, and there's no easy way to know unless you manually check each one. CrucibleIQ checks your cited sources automatically and alerts you before you submit.
How it works
Cross-references your sources against retraction databases. If a paper you've cited has been withdrawn or flagged with an expression of concern, you'll see it before you submit.
One less thing to worry about. Your citations are clean before they leave your hands.
Retraction Checking
Research and write without leaving the workspace.
What it does
This is the big one. Instead of switching between your PDF reader, notes app, citation manager, and Word, everything is right here. Write your paper with your sources beside you. Drag an annotation in and the citation generates itself. When you're done, one click exports a finished Word document with all in-text citations verified and bibliography auto-generated.
How it works
The editor checks that every in-text citation matches a source in your project. The bibliography is built from your actual citations, nothing missing, nothing extra. Export and submit.
Everything happens in one place. Your bibliography and in-text citations are always in sync because they come from the same data. One click to export a finished document.
Writing Editor & Export
Video coming soonSee the full workflow: sources, annotations, and writing in one screen, then 1-click export to Word.
Find that quote in 3 seconds, not 30 minutes.
What it does
You read it somewhere. You highlighted it. But which paper was it? Page what? Instead of opening PDFs one by one and scanning for it, just ask. "What did Johnson say about attention spans?" The exact quote, the exact page, instantly.
How it works
Searches the full text of every source in your project. Understands what you're looking for, so you can describe what you remember and get the right result.
That frantic 30-minute hunt through your files at 2am? That's now a 3-second search.
AI Search Across Your Sources
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