How people use Context

The challenge

You have 40 papers to read, notes scattered across Word docs and PDFs, and a literature review chapter due in six weeks. You know what the papers say individually but struggle to see the bigger picture — which authors agree, which disagree, what the gaps are, and how to stitch it all into a coherent argument.

How Context helps

1. 1Create a workspace for your research question.
2. 2Upload PDFs or paste DOIs — metadata and abstracts are extracted automatically.
3. 3Run AI analysis on each source to extract summaries, main arguments, methods, findings, and key claims.
4. 4Use the Compare tool to surface where papers agree, differ methodologically, or leave gaps in the literature.
5. 5Generate a literature review draft grounded in your sources, with citations that link only to those sources.
6. 6Refine each section, add your own analysis, and export as Word or PDF.

The challenge

You receive a stack of government reports, NGO briefs, and research papers on the same policy question. Each uses different terminology, different data, and different recommendations. You need a structured synthesis — quickly — for a briefing or position paper.

How Context helps

1. 1Upload reports as PDFs or add web articles by URL.
2. 2Run analysis to extract methods, evidence types, and key findings per document.
3. 3Select 3–8 reports and run a cross-source comparison — agreements, disagreements, methodological differences, and evidence gaps are returned in a structured breakdown.
4. 4Generate a thematic synthesis or briefing draft directly from your source library.
5. 5Export the comparison table or synthesis as Word or PDF.

The challenge

A story requires reading dozens of articles, academic papers, reports, and interview transcripts. You need to track themes across sources, identify what is documented versus what is claimed, and build a structured outline before you start writing.

How Context helps

1. 1Add sources across types — web articles, PDFs, reports, interview transcripts — into one workspace.
2. 2Run analysis to extract summaries and key claims from each source.
3. 3Use the Concept Map to visualize which themes recur across documents and where coverage is thin.
4. 4Add notable passages and personal annotations directly to source records.
5. 5Generate a paper outline or thematic synthesis from your sources as a structured starting point.

The challenge

You are writing a journal article or book chapter. You have the sources, you know the field, but pulling together the conceptual structure — the argument, the relevant debates, the synthesis — takes weeks of work that often gets lost in notes and drafts.

How Context helps

1. 1Create a workspace and define your research question to focus all analysis.
2. 2Upload your reading list — the system extracts arguments, methods, and evidence types automatically.
3. 3Explore Concepts and Themes to see how ideas cluster across your sources.
4. 4Track milestones for the chapter within the workspace.
5. 5Generate a chapter outline or annotated bibliography to scaffold your first draft.
6. 6Refine outputs with custom instructions, exclude sources you dispute, and export at any stage.

The challenge

Generic AI tools can generate text but they hallucinate citations, pull from the wrong sources, and produce work that does not actually engage with what you read. You need a tool that helps you work with your actual reading — not one that replaces it.

How Context helps

1. 1Add the sources assigned for your paper — upload PDFs or enter metadata manually.
2. 2Run analysis to get structured summaries of each source: argument, methods, findings, limitations.
3. 3Use comparisons to understand what the sources agree and disagree on before you start writing.
4. 4Generate a literature review or paper outline from the sources you have actually read.
5. 5Open a citation to see its source and the passages extracted from it; an (Author, Year) citation that matches none of your sources is marked "Needs verification".
6. 6Edit, refine, and export the final output in the format your assignment requires.