# Undermind

> Research agent that reads hundreds of papers, follows citation trails and reports on the literature you need

Source: https://dontaskagain.com/undermind
Website: https://www.undermind.ai/?utm_source=dontaskagain
Pricing: Freemium
Categories: [Research](https://dontaskagain.com/categories/research.md)
Listed: 2026-10-23
Updated: 2026-10-23

Undermind is an AI co-researcher for scientific literature. You describe what you are working on, it asks follow-up questions, then reads and evaluates hundreds of papers and follows citation trails, returning a report with in-line citations to the source papers.

**Key features:**

- Clarifying questions before each search to pin down the research goal.
- Citation-trail search across hundreds of papers per query.
- Reports you can iterate on, with full-text access and detail extraction.
- Brainstorming with an assistant that has read the relevant literature.
- Custom tables, relevance sorting and filtering.
- Alerts when new relevant papers are published.

Undermind runs on the web and also works inside Claude, ChatGPT and other assistants. It is built for scientists and R&D teams, from academic researchers to pharmaceutical companies, and publishes benchmarks comparing its search with other retrieval systems. Individuals can sign up for free, and organizations can contact sales.

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