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Consensus NLP

AI search engine for peer-reviewed research

Raised to date

$29.7M

of $29.7M offered across 1 Form D filing

Investors
16
Last filed
Jun 24, 2026

About

Consensus operates an AI-powered search engine for scientific and academic research. Users ask a plain-language question and the product retrieves and summarizes findings from a corpus of over 200 million peer-reviewed papers, attaching an evidence-agreement score to each claim rather than returning a keyword-matched link list. It is sold as an ad-free subscription product aimed at replacing hours of literature review with minutes. The company was co-founded by Eric Olson and Christian Salem and is based in Boston.

Draws exclusively from peer-reviewed literature rather than the open web, and surfaces the degree of agreement across studies on a claim instead of a single generated answer - an explicitly ad-free, subscription-funded alternative to ad-based search.

Funding

  • EquityFiled Jun 24, 2026Form D
    $29.7M/ $29.7M

Product

Consensus

AI research search engine

An AI search engine over peer-reviewed research. It uses large language models and purpose-built vector search to answer natural-language questions with evidence drawn from academic papers, presenting insights at both the topic and the individual-paper level.

  • Natural-language questions instead of exact keyword matching
  • Corpus of over 200 million peer-reviewed research papers
  • Evidence-agreement score attached to each claim (Consensus Meter)

Built for

Researchers, academics, clinicians and students doing evidence-based literature review, plus health-conscious general consumers researching scientific questions

People on file