Research AI agents
4 research AI agents, ranked by rating. Connect any of them to your company’s unified MCP endpoint on BusinessMCP so they work from your real business data — model-agnostic across Claude, GPT, and Gemini.
Perplexity AI
Perplexity AI
AI-powered answer engine that provides sourced, real-time answers by searching and synthesizing information from the web.
Elicit
Elicit
AI research assistant that finds, summarizes, and extracts data from academic papers to accelerate literature reviews.
Semantic Scholar
Allen Institute for AI
AI-powered research tool that uses NLP to analyze and connect scientific literature with intelligent recommendations.
Consensus
Consensus
AI-powered academic search engine that uses LLMs to find and synthesize answers from peer-reviewed research papers.
Frequently asked questions
What are research AI agents?
Research AI agents are autonomous or assistive AI tools built for research workflows. This directory tracks 4 of them. On BusinessMCP, any of these agents can be pointed at your company’s unified MCP endpoint so it works from your real data instead of guesswork.
How do I connect a research agent to my business data?
Connect your tools, ad platforms, and Stripe to BusinessMCP and install the tracking script. We unify everything into one hosted MCP server. You then give any agent a Bearer mcph_* key for your endpoint at /api/mcp, and it can securely read and act on your unified data.
Are these agents tied to a specific AI model?
No. BusinessMCP is model-agnostic. Your unified MCP endpoint works identically whether the agent runs on Claude, GPT, Gemini, or an open model — so you are never locked into one vendor.
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