Summarize research papers and find related work automatically

Reads new papers in your Drive folder, pulls key details, finds related work, and logs a summary.

How the work actually flows

It branches. Every path runs.

Pattern: Parallel Split (2)

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Starts itA stepAn outside serviceEvery pathResultPayoff
Build size
Standard

A mid-size build with several tools working together.

Business functions
Spreadsheet & Database OpsResearch & Market IntelligenceFile & Cloud Storage
Connects
Google DriveGoogle SheetsNotion

The problem it solves

Reading through a stack of papers to pull out the title, authors, methods, and findings takes hours, and then you still have to search for related work by hand. You end up with a messy pile of PDFs and no organized way to track what you've read.

Who it fits

PhD students, researchers, and anyone doing literature reviews.

How it works

  1. A new paper lands in your Papers folder in Google Drive
  2. The system extracts the title, authors, abstract, findings, and keywords
  3. It searches Semantic Scholar and PubMed for related papers
  4. It generates a proper citation and formats a summary
  5. The summary is logged to a spreadsheet and a page is created in Notion
What you get

Related work found without a manual search

New papers in your Drive folder come back with key details extracted, related work surfaced, and a summary logged for your review.

What you get

A logged database entry and a Notion summary page for each paper, with related work attached.

What you need

A Google Drive account, a Google Sheets account, and a Notion account.

We can build this. But should you?

The hard question is not how to build it. It is whether this is the right thing to build first.

That is what a Fractional Chief AI Officer figures out with you, before anyone writes a line of code.

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