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Your personal map of everything you read

Explore public corpora for free, ask questions with cited answers and keep your own research trail. Built for students, researchers and the endlessly curious.

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Trusted by fast-growing research teams around the world

  • Helix Labs
  • northwind
  • Quanta
  • atlas.bio
  • Meridian
  • COBALT
  • Lumen Institute
  • orbital
Features

Everything individuals need

All the building blocks to explore, question and share research knowledge.

Free 3D map

Fly through millions of papers, projects, patents and trials at no cost.

Cited answers

100 VOL AI answers a month, every claim linked to its source.

Snapshots

Save a view of the map and come back to it any time.

Map links

Share a short link to any node or cluster.

Reading lists

Pin documents into lists and export them to your reference manager.

Multilingual

Ask in your language and read sources in theirs.
Explore

See the shape of a field in seconds

Similar documents sit close together, so clusters reveal schools of thought, gaps and bridges you would miss in a list.

  • Filter by year, venue and country
  • Highlight citations and co-authors
  • Jump between related clusters
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Answers you can verify

VOL AI answers only from the corpus and cites every claim. Click a citation and the map flies to that document.

  • Inline citations
  • Fly-to-map on every source
  • Follow-up questions keep context
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Testimonials

Don't just take our word for it

Our users are our best ambassadors. Discover why research teams choose VOL to explore what the world knows.

  • “VOL feels like a search engine and a map had a very well-designed child. I found three related consortia I had never heard of.”
    LODr. Lena OkaforResearch Lead, Helix Labs
  • “The citations are the killer feature. I can finally trust an AI answer because I can click straight into the source.”
    MIMarco IlićInnovation Manager, Meridian
  • “We replaced two weeks of desk research with an afternoon on the map.”
    SBSofia BrandtHead of Strategy, Quanta
  • “Embedding the chat atom in our portal took less than an hour. Our users love it.”
    TFTomás FerreiraCTO, atlas.bio
  • “Seeing CORDIS projects next to the papers they produced changed how we plan proposals.”
    AVAino VirtanenGrants Officer, Lumen Institute
  • “For clinical evidence, provenance is non-negotiable. VOL shows provenance on every single line.”
    PRDr. Priya RamanMedical Affairs, Cobalt Health
FAQ

Frequently asked questions

These are some of our most frequently asked questions.

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Is VOL really free for individuals?

Yes. The 3D map and all public corpora are free forever, with 100 cited AI answers per month.

Can I upload my own PDFs?

Private corpora are part of the Teams plan. Individuals can save reading lists and snapshots of public corpora.

Does VOL work on mobile?

Yes. The map adapts to touch devices and the assistant works on any screen size.

Trusted by fast-growing research teams around the world

  • Helix Labs
  • northwind
  • Quanta
  • atlas.bio
  • Meridian
  • COBALT
  • Lumen Institute
  • orbital

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