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# Use cases

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  Browse what researchers, life-science teams, consultants and advisors, and engineers actually build on Consensus. Every card links to the full prompt you can copy and run today.
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      <span className="gallery-card-personas" data-persona="academic">Academic</span>
      <span className="gallery-card-title">Find a real citation for every claim in a draft</span>
      <span className="gallery-card-desc">Paste a draft section and get every claim matched to a real, verifiable paper — or flagged as unsupported.</span>

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      <span className="gallery-card-personas" data-persona="academic">Academic · Platform</span>
      <span className="gallery-card-title">Verify that every citation is real and supports its claim</span>
      <span className="gallery-card-desc">Verify every reference actually exists, then confirm it says what the text citing it claims.</span>

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      <span className="gallery-card-personas" data-persona="platform">Platform · Academic</span>
      <span className="gallery-card-title">Build a reusable literature-review workflow</span>
      <span className="gallery-card-desc">Wrap a repeatable review workflow into a skill your whole team can run the same way every time.</span>

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      <span className="gallery-card-personas" data-persona="platform">Platform · Academic</span>
      <span className="gallery-card-title">Track new papers across many topics on a schedule</span>
      <span className="gallery-card-desc">Sweep hundreds of topics on a cron, diff against last run, and report only what changed.</span>

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      <span className="gallery-card-personas" data-persona="life-health-sciences">Life & health sciences</span>
      <span className="gallery-card-title">Create a biomarker evidence report</span>
      <span className="gallery-card-desc">Assess the evidence for a biomarker's optimal range across Mendelian randomization, cohorts, and trials.</span>

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      <span className="gallery-card-personas" data-persona="life-health-sciences">Life & health sciences</span>
      <span className="gallery-card-title">Build a drug target validation dossier</span>
      <span className="gallery-card-desc">Human genetics, in vitro, animal, and clinical evidence for one target — including what contradicts it.</span>

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        <span className="gallery-tag">API</span>
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      <span className="gallery-card-personas" data-persona="life-health-sciences">Life & health sciences</span>
      <span className="gallery-card-title">Monitor new research about a drug, device, or brand</span>
      <span className="gallery-card-desc">Track what gets published about a drug, device, or brand and route only the consequential papers.</span>

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      <span className="gallery-card-personas" data-persona="academic">Academic</span>
      <span className="gallery-card-title">Turn a syllabus into a recommended reading list</span>
      <span className="gallery-card-desc">Extract course topics and return recent papers mapped to each learning outcome.</span>

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      <span className="gallery-card-personas" data-persona="academic">Academic · Life sciences</span>
      <span className="gallery-card-title">Find NIH grants for a research idea</span>
      <span className="gallery-card-desc">Position your idea, map it to the right institutes and study sections, and surface NOSIs and funded overlap.</span>

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      <span className="gallery-card-personas" data-persona="physical-sciences">Applied & physical sciences · Academic</span>
      <span className="gallery-card-title">Extract numbers and formulas from full-text papers</span>
      <span className="gallery-card-desc">Pull numbers, formulas, and parameters out of papers with their measurement conditions attached.</span>

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      <span className="gallery-card-personas" data-persona="physical-sciences">Applied & physical sciences</span>
      <span className="gallery-card-title">Substantiate a product claim with published evidence</span>
      <span className="gallery-card-desc">Build the evidence file behind a claim before it ships, including what contradicts it.</span>

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      <span className="gallery-popular" title="Popular">★</span>
      <span className="gallery-card-personas" data-persona="platform">Platform</span>
      <span className="gallery-card-title">Swap a hand-maintained paper corpus for full-text search</span>
      <span className="gallery-card-desc">Replace a curated PubMed subset you maintain yourself with a weekly-refreshed full-text index.</span>

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      <span className="gallery-popular" title="Popular">★</span>
      <span className="gallery-card-personas" data-persona="platform">Platform</span>
      <span className="gallery-card-title">Add a citable evidence layer to an agent you already ship</span>
      <span className="gallery-card-desc">Give a working agent access to peer-reviewed literature as a tool, so its claims carry citations.</span>

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      <span className="gallery-card-personas" data-persona="platform">Platform</span>
      <span className="gallery-card-title">Answer one question with many parallel searches</span>
      <span className="gallery-card-desc">Decompose a question into search angles, gather across all of them, and distill one cited answer.</span>

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      <span className="gallery-card-title">Screen thousands of target-disease pairs for evidence</span>
      <span className="gallery-card-desc">Pull literature evidence for every pair in a large matrix — the batch workload that breaks most APIs.</span>

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      <span className="gallery-card-personas" data-persona="platform">Platform</span>
      <span className="gallery-card-title">Benchmark literature providers against your own ground truth</span>
      <span className="gallery-card-desc">Curate queries with known-relevant papers and measure which provider actually surfaces them.</span>

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      <span className="gallery-card-personas" data-persona="academic">Academic</span>
      <span className="gallery-card-title">Screen abstracts against inclusion criteria</span>
      <span className="gallery-card-desc">Apply explicit criteria across thousands of abstracts, with a decision log a second reviewer can audit.</span>

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      <span className="gallery-card-personas" data-persona="academic">Academic · Life & health sciences</span>
      <span className="gallery-card-title">Build a PRISMA-ready search corpus</span>
      <span className="gallery-card-desc">Assemble a reproducible, deduplicated record set with the flow counts a systematic review must report.</span>

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      <span className="gallery-card-personas" data-persona="academic">Academic</span>
      <span className="gallery-card-title">Write the search-strategy section of your methods</span>
      <span className="gallery-card-desc">Turn a logged search into the reproducible methods paragraph reviewers ask for.</span>

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      <span className="gallery-card-title">Find which journals to submit to</span>
      <span className="gallery-card-desc">Identify the journals actually publishing work like yours, with their quartile, so you target realistically.</span>

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      <span className="gallery-card-personas" data-persona="academic">Academic</span>
      <span className="gallery-card-title">Track how a field's terminology changed over time</span>
      <span className="gallery-card-desc">Compare old and recent literature so you search the terms the field actually used, not just today's.</span>

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        <span className="gallery-tag">API</span>
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      <span className="gallery-card-personas" data-persona="life-health-sciences">Life & health sciences</span>
      <span className="gallery-card-title">Grade a set of papers with your own evidence rubric</span>
      <span className="gallery-card-desc">Apply your organization's standard for good evidence consistently across every paper on a topic.</span>

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        <span className="gallery-tag">MCP</span>
        <span className="gallery-tag">Full text</span>
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  <a className="gallery-card" href="/use-cases/investigator-mapping" data-personas="life-health-sciences">
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      <span className="gallery-card-personas" data-persona="life-health-sciences">Life & health sciences</span>
      <span className="gallery-card-title">Find the leading investigators in an indication</span>
      <span className="gallery-card-desc">Rank the authors publishing most in a therapeutic area, split by region and by recent versus lifetime output.</span>

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        <span className="gallery-tag">API</span>
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      <span className="gallery-card-personas" data-persona="life-health-sciences">Life & health sciences</span>
      <span className="gallery-card-title">Assemble a payer evidence dossier</span>
      <span className="gallery-card-desc">Pull cost-effectiveness, burden-of-illness, and real-world evidence a reimbursement submission needs.</span>

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      <span className="gallery-card-personas" data-persona="life-health-sciences">Life & health sciences</span>
      <span className="gallery-card-title">Check whether a finding has human evidence yet</span>
      <span className="gallery-card-desc">Separate cell and animal work from human studies, and report the ratio.</span>

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      <span className="gallery-card-personas" data-persona="physical-sciences">Applied & physical sciences</span>
      <span className="gallery-card-title">Compare candidate materials against published test data</span>
      <span className="gallery-card-desc">Search performance data for each candidate under your operating conditions, and find the untested gaps.</span>

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      <span className="gallery-card-personas" data-persona="physical-sciences">Applied & physical sciences</span>
      <span className="gallery-card-title">Find published work on a failure or degradation mechanism</span>
      <span className="gallery-card-desc">Check whether a defect you are seeing is a known mechanism before you spend a quarter rediscovering it.</span>

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        <span className="gallery-tag">API</span>
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      <span className="gallery-card-personas" data-persona="physical-sciences">Applied & physical sciences</span>
      <span className="gallery-card-title">Find published process conditions for a manufacturing step</span>
      <span className="gallery-card-desc">See what temperature, time, and concentration ranges others published, so you start from precedent.</span>

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        <span className="gallery-tag">API</span>
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      <span className="gallery-card-personas" data-persona="physical-sciences">Applied & physical sciences</span>
      <span className="gallery-card-title">Check a supplier's performance claim against independent research</span>
      <span className="gallery-card-desc">Test what a vendor claims against what independent published work reports.</span>

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      <span className="gallery-card-personas" data-persona="physical-sciences">Applied & physical sciences · Life & health sciences</span>
      <span className="gallery-card-title">Find human-factors evidence for a design decision</span>
      <span className="gallery-card-desc">Pull the biomechanics, ergonomics, and usability research behind a product or workstation choice.</span>

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