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From the Agent Bayes team
Product updates, research workflows, and how we think about building tools you can actually trust with your literature.

Most AI research tools are not competing with each other
We compared thirteen of them. The useful split is not which one is smartest. It is what corpus each tool reads, what its citations point at, and what you are left holding when you close the tab.
Meir Zana
August 3, 2026 · 9 min read

How to build a passage-level evidence matrix for a literature review
A step-by-step guide to coding passages, preserving source context, comparing themes across papers, and turning extracted evidence into claims you can trace back to the page.
Meir Zana
August 2, 2026 · 14 min read

We gave our research agent a glossary it builds from your papers, not the dictionary
Domain terms are local and overloaded. A small terminology graph gives a research agent an inspectable, corpus-relative glossary: top supporting passages and neighboring concepts, as evidence to reason over, not a canned definition to paste.
Meir Zana
August 1, 2026 · 10 min read

Our Customers Now Get 3x More Indexed Papers, for the Same Price
We moved the pipeline that reads and indexes your PDFs to OpenAI's gpt-5.6-luna. Indexing costs about 60% less, runs in under half the time, and we measured it against our own evaluation loop before shipping to make sure nothing got worse.
Meir Zana
July 31, 2026 · 2 min read

GraphRAG uses five LLM indexing stages. We use one extraction pass.
One LLM pass extracts scholarly terms and scores how informative each passage is. LLM-reconstructed semantic chunks make co-occurrences less noisy, while agents resolve meaning from evidence at query time and no glossary definition is committed.
Meir Zana
July 15, 2026 · 13 min read

Imposter syndrome in academia: what the research says, and where our AI misread it
A citation-backed tour of what the research actually says about imposter syndrome in academia: how common it is, whether it is even a real condition, and the one place our AI research assistant got a citation wrong while mapping the literature.
Meir Zana
July 5, 2026 · 7 min read

AI should help researchers think deeper, not think less
The useful role for AI in research is not replacing judgment. It is helping a human stay immersed in a problem, keep evidence and disagreement visible, and build knowledge that compounds over time.
Meir Zana
July 2, 2026 · 11 min read

Token accounting and cancellation in durable agent workflows
Closing an LLM stream is not the same as stopping the work behind it. Durable agents need cancellation paths that settle application state and credit accounting before the UI declares victory.
Meir Zana
July 2, 2026 · 9 min read

Introducing Agent Bayes: research you can actually trust
Why we built a multi-agent research assistant around a shared, citation-backed mindmap, and how it fixes what generic chatbots get wrong about working with literature.
Meir Zana
July 1, 2026 · 8 min read