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VOL for Recruiting

Find experts by what they actually publish

Locate researchers, inventors and principal investigators by topic instead of keywords. VOL clusters their work on the map so you can shortlist real expertise in minutes.

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Trusted by fast-growing research teams around the world

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

Why recruiting teams choose VOL

Built on Papers, Patents, CORDIS and your own documents, with every answer sourced.

Expertise search

Search by concept and get people ranked by the evidence behind them.

Collaboration graph

See co-authors, labs and consortia connected to each candidate.

Cited profiles

Every claim in a profile links back to a paper, patent or project.
faster shortlists
4x
profiles with citations
92%
inventors indexed
180k
per cited answer
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How it works

From question to evidence in three steps

Pick the corpora that matter to your team, ask in plain language and follow the citations straight into the map.

  • Choose Papers + Patents + CORDIS
  • Ask: “Who are the most active authors in solid-state electrolytes since 2021?”
  • Open sources and clusters on the map
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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
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