We build the tools we wished for in graduate school.
Scholaris started as a sketch on a napkin in a Vienna café between two scholars who were tired of bouncing between fifteen browser tabs to write a single page of a literature review. We thought research deserved a quieter workspace.
To give scholars back their afternoons.
Every researcher loses hours each week to the mechanics of the job: searching, deduplicating, formatting, paraphrasing, hunting for the right page in a borrowed PDF.
Scholaris collapses that mechanical layer. The afternoons that come back belong to the part of the work only you can do, the thinking, the arguing, the careful choice of one word over another.
Four values, kept short on purpose.
Evidence first
Every answer points back to a source you can read. Confidence without provenance is not knowledge.
A scholar centered workspace
We build for the working scholar, not the casual browser. Speed matters. Quiet matters more.
Your work is yours
Your drafts, your library, and your prompts never train our models. Privacy is the floor, not a perk.
Calm software
No nagging modals, no growth dark patterns. The interface stays out of the way of your thinking.
A small group of people who love this work.
Scientists, librarians, designers, and engineers who used to walk past each other in university corridors, now in one quiet room.
Dr. Niall Erikson
Cofounder & Chief Scientist
Computational linguist. Spent a decade at a Boston lab building reasoning systems for medical literature.
Dr. Sara Vesna
Cofounder & Head of Research
Information science professor. Cochrane methodologist. Stood up systematic review centers at three universities.
Adaeze Okoye
Head of Design
Designed the first version of an open citation library used by 40,000 researchers. Cares deeply about typography.
Prof. Hiroshi Tanaka
Research Advisor
Evidence synthesis chair. Sits on the editorial boards of three journals. Keeps us honest about methods.
From napkin to suite, in five years.
Two cofounders met at a methodology workshop in Vienna. The first sketch of Scholaris fit on a single napkin.
Early build released to forty researchers across six universities. The Insight Engine first ran on a borrowed cluster.
Public beta. Twelve thousand researchers signed up in the first month. The Source Finder began indexing preprints.
The full suite went live. Institutional partnerships across Africa, Europe, and Southeast Asia took shape.
Three hundred million sources indexed. Scholaris is now part of the daily routine for scholars in 130 countries.
If you build research tools, we want to know you.
We collaborate with library scientists, methodologists, journal editors, and the open scholarship community. Tell us what you wish existed.