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# Use case library

> Worked examples of what people build on Consensus, filterable by persona, each with the full prompt and API call behind it.

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  Browse what researchers, life-science teams, engineers, and platform builders actually build on Consensus. Every card links to the full prompt or API call you can copy and run today. New here? Start with the <a href="/use-cases">use cases overview</a>.
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  <span className="gallery-filters-label">Who you are</span>
  <button className="gallery-chip active" data-persona="all" aria-pressed="true">All</button>
  <button className="gallery-chip" data-persona="academic" aria-pressed="false">Academic</button>
  <button className="gallery-chip" data-persona="life-health-sciences" aria-pressed="false">Life & health sciences</button>
  <button className="gallery-chip" data-persona="physical-sciences" aria-pressed="false">Applied & physical sciences</button>
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  <a className="gallery-card" href="/use-cases/ground-a-manuscript" data-personas="academic" data-popular="true">
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      <span className="gallery-popular" title="Popular">★</span>
      <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-tag">MCP</span>
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  <a className="gallery-card" href="/use-cases/citation-verification" data-personas="academic,platform" data-popular="true">
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      <span className="gallery-popular" title="Popular">★</span>
      <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-tag">MCP</span>
        <span className="gallery-tag">API</span>
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  <a className="gallery-card" href="/use-cases/literature-review-skill" data-personas="platform,academic" data-popular="true">
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      <span className="gallery-popular" title="Popular">★</span>
      <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-tag">MCP</span>
        <span className="gallery-tag">API</span>
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  <a className="gallery-card" href="/use-cases/scheduled-research-pipeline" data-personas="platform,academic">
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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-tag">API</span>
        <span className="gallery-tag">Scheduled</span>
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  <a className="gallery-card" href="/use-cases/biomarker-report" 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">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-tag">MCP</span>
        <span className="gallery-tag">API</span>
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  <a className="gallery-card" href="/use-cases/target-evidence-tiers" 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">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>
        <span className="gallery-tag">Fan-out</span>
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  <a className="gallery-card" href="/use-cases/brand-and-device-monitoring" 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">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-tag">API</span>
        <span className="gallery-tag">Scheduled</span>
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  <a className="gallery-card" href="/use-cases/syllabus-reading-list" data-personas="academic">
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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-tag">MCP</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-tag">MCP</span>
        <span className="gallery-tag">API</span>
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  <a className="gallery-card" href="/use-cases/extract-values-from-full-text" data-personas="physical-sciences,academic">
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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-tag">API</span>
        <span className="gallery-tag">Full text</span>
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  <a className="gallery-card" href="/use-cases/claim-substantiation" data-personas="physical-sciences">
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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-tag">API</span>
        <span className="gallery-tag">Filters</span>
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  <a className="gallery-card" href="/use-cases/swap-a-paper-corpus" data-personas="platform" data-popular="true">
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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-tag">MCP</span>
        <span className="gallery-tag">API</span>
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  <a className="gallery-card" href="/use-cases/add-an-evidence-layer" data-personas="platform" data-popular="true">
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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-tag">MCP</span>
        <span className="gallery-tag">API</span>
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  <a className="gallery-card" href="/use-cases/parallel-search-angles" data-personas="platform">
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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-tag">API</span>
        <span className="gallery-tag">Fan-out</span>
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  <a className="gallery-card" href="/use-cases/high-throughput-screening" data-personas="platform">
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      <span className="gallery-card-personas" data-persona="platform">Platform</span>
      <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-tag">API</span>
        <span className="gallery-tag">Bulk</span>
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  <a className="gallery-card" href="/use-cases/benchmark-retrieval" data-personas="platform">
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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-tag">API</span>
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  <a className="gallery-card" href="/use-cases/abstract-screening" data-personas="academic">
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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-tag">API</span>
        <span className="gallery-tag">Filters</span>
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  <a className="gallery-card" href="/use-cases/prisma-corpus" data-personas="academic,life-health-sciences">
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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-tag">API</span>
        <span className="gallery-tag">Bulk</span>
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  <a className="gallery-card" href="/use-cases/search-strategy-methods" data-personas="academic">
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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-tag">API</span>
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  <a className="gallery-card" href="/use-cases/where-to-submit" data-personas="academic">
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      <span className="gallery-card-personas" data-persona="academic">Academic</span>
      <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-tag">API</span>
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  <a className="gallery-card" href="/use-cases/terminology-shift" data-personas="academic">
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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>
        <span className="gallery-tag">Filters</span>
      </span>
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  </a>

  <a className="gallery-card" href="/use-cases/evidence-grading-rubric" 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">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>

      <span className="gallery-card-tags">
        <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>
        <span className="gallery-tag">Bulk</span>
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  <a className="gallery-card" href="/use-cases/payer-evidence-dossier" 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">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-tag">API</span>
        <span className="gallery-tag">Fan-out</span>
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  <a className="gallery-card" href="/use-cases/translational-readiness" 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">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>

      <span className="gallery-card-tags">
        <span className="gallery-tag">API</span>
        <span className="gallery-tag">Filters</span>
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  <a className="gallery-card" href="/use-cases/materials-comparison" data-personas="physical-sciences">
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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-tag">API</span>
        <span className="gallery-tag">Full text</span>
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  <a className="gallery-card" href="/use-cases/failure-mode-scan" data-personas="physical-sciences">
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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>
        <span className="gallery-tag">Fan-out</span>
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  <a className="gallery-card" href="/use-cases/process-window-precedent" data-personas="physical-sciences">
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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>
        <span className="gallery-tag">Full text</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-tag">API</span>
        <span className="gallery-tag">Filters</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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        <span className="gallery-tag">API</span>
        <span className="gallery-tag">Filters</span>
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## Next steps

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    The guide for organizations: internal assistants, monitoring agents, literature tables, and agents.
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    The guide for academics: literature reviews, grounded writing, and evidence reports.
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  <Card title="Best practices" icon="shapes" href="/use-cases/best-practices">
    Five primitives every workflow above is built from, and what makes a good Consensus use case.
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    Run any prompt on this page from Claude, ChatGPT, Claude Code, or Codex in under two minutes.
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  <Card title="Get started with the API" icon="code" href="/api-get-started">
    Your first authenticated request to `GET /v1/search`, in seven languages.
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    Higher page sizes, unlimited usage, and full-text access for corpus-scale work.
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