AnswerThis
AnswerThis is a YC Fall 2025 (F25) company. Team of 6.
About AnswerThis
Summary
AnswerThis builds an AI research workspace for academics, doctors, and scientific teams who need to conduct literature reviews. It searches and analyzes over 300 million papers, clinical trials, and PDFs to surface relevant sources, map connections between ideas, and generate cited answers to complex research questions. This replaces weeks of manual screening, note-taking, and synthesis across fragmented tools with a single end-to-end workflow that also produces compliant systematic literature reviews.
Go-to-market
Researchers and institutions sign up directly through the website, with a free tier to start and enterprise options for teams and organizations.
From the Y Combinator listing
End-to-end workspace to accelerate scientific discovery
AnswerThis is a scientific discovery platform used by over 200,000 researchers that reduces weeks of manual research work to hours. Instead of manually searching, reading, and organizing dozens of papers, researchers use AnswerThis to find the most relevant work, see how ideas are connected, and get comprehensive answers to complex scientific questions with line by line answers. This allows them to map research gaps, analyze trends, and draft literature reviews far faster, all while building a searchable library of their own research materials.
Facts
- Consumer / Consumer
- 6
- Active
- Early
Founders (2)
- Ayush Garg
- Ryan McCarroll
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