Bringing the Humanities and Social Sciences into the AI-Powered Discovery Era: Announcing our Partnership with De Gruyter Brill

We're thrilled to announce a partnership with Taylor & Francis, one of the world's most prolific academic publishers to bring more full-text to Consensus

This funding will enable us reach the next 10M users and expand our product beyond search, toward the AI OS for researchers.

We’re excited to announce our partnership for full-text indexing with Sage Publishing, a global leader in scientific publishing.

SummaryThis evaluation compares the performance of Consensus and Google Scholar on the core task of a literature review: finding relevant papers. Using 500 real user queries and ~10,000 query–paper pairs, we evaluated top-10 results from each system with LLM-based relevance scoring (0–4 scale), blinded to source. Consensus outperformed Google Scholar across all key search relevance metrics: achieving 4.6% higher average precision and stronger DCG scores, meaning it not only finds more relevant papers but also ranks them with more precision. The advantage across metrics is most pronounced in the top five results, where researchers spend most of their time. For researchers, students, and professionals, this means less time sifting and more time learning, proof that smarter academic search is not only possible, and it’s already here.1. Introduction: Why This Evaluation?Google Scholar is the gold standard in academic search. While new AI tools (including Consensus) have gained traction in recent years, Google Scholar still dwarfs the rest of us in traffic and usage. Despite its clunky interface, Scholar is still widely considered the most reliable way to find relevant research, quickly.

We are thrilled to announce a partnership with the Publications division of the American Chemical Society (ACS) and ACS Ventures, a world leader in scientific publishing. 

The Consensus product today searches across 200+ million academic papers, preprints, and conference proceedings. Our corpus spans every scientific discipline and journal imaginable.This comprehensive scope makes Consensus an incredible tool for academics, professionals, and clinicians conducting literature reviews, finding references, or exploring complex scientific questions.But comprehensiveness can sometimes come at a cost. When you need precision, especially in medicine, too much breadth can blur the signal. Clinicians often need insights drawn only from top medical journals and clinical guidelines — the gold standard of evidence.That’s why we’re introducing Medical Mode in Consensus.