Elicit
A hosted research assistant that finds academic papers, extracts study details and helps synthesize literature for research and decision-making.
Score calculation
(2 + 4 + 3 + 1 + 7) ÷ 5 = 3.4
5 of six dimensions rated. Unrated dimensions are excluded from the average.
Full scoring method ↗Setup details
Elicit Basic, Plus and Pro research assistant for literature search and synthesis; team/enterprise plans can have distinct agreements.
What fits your needs
Elicit Basic, Plus and Pro research assistant for literature search and synthesis; team/enterprise plans can have distinct agreements.
Good fit
Use it to screen papers and structure a literature review when scholarly evidence and citations matter.
Tradeoffs to expect
Tradeoffs
The individual privacy policy is dated 2023; enterprise safeguards are described separately, and check the selected model separately for training-data rights.
How to switch
Switching
Export citations, notes and review tables regularly; verify that source links and extraction fields survive export.
Practical questions
Before use
For sensitive uploads, confirm the current plan agreement and applicable DPA; the published SOC 2 note specifically describes enterprise data controls.
Elicit has identifiable product documentation, but no measured energy footprint or clean-electricity sourcing evidence for the assessed route.
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The official sources describe how Elicit is delivered and used. They provide no dated, quantitative energy or water report for this product and no evidence tying its requests to clean electricity. The pages reviewed also name no energy-saving workload or compute control.
1 + 1 reporting + 0 electricity + 0 controls = 2/10. This grades documented practices and transparency.
Per-request electricity and water use, regional power mix and independently verified clean-electricity sourcing for Elicit remain unpublished.
- Reporting1/3
- The Elicit documentation identifies the service route, but provides no dated, quantitative energy or water report for this product.
- Electricity sourcing0/3
- No reviewed official source ties this workload to metered, regional or hourly clean electricity; this is an evidence gap.
- Resource controls0/3
- The reviewed Elicit documentation names no energy-saving compute or workload setting for this route; no physical savings are inferred from speed, pricing or general configuration choices.
Water disclosure
Water reporting has not been assessed for this choice.
Training-data rights vary with the model selected for Elicit; check that model’s source and license.
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Elicit can use different model routes. Its product policy describes how requests are handled, while training-data provenance and permissions depend on the selected model. Review that release’s source disclosure, license and creator controls separately.
The selected model name, version and provider can vary by feature or setting. Those details are needed for a model-specific training-data review.
Elicit’s individual privacy policy is dated 2023 and gives broad retention terms; its separate enterprise statement describes stronger research-data safeguards.
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The individual policy describes email, credentials, device and usage data, U.S. servers and retention as needed, but does not explain current handling of uploaded research content or model providers. Elicit separately says enterprise data is not used for model training and documents encryption, backups and access controls for that plan.
The individual policy has not been updated since September 2023; confirm current individual-plan content handling and whether enterprise SOC 2 assurances apply to the selected account.
Elicit exposes scholarly references, paper-level metadata and exportable research results, but its hosted research application, extraction system and underlying language models are not released for self-hosting.
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The cited product pages do not provide a complete source release, reproducible model pipeline and license package for the full assessed service. Individual model licenses and artifacts can differ.
Public sources for Elicit describe the product, but do not report pay, worker voice or independent safeguards for the people who build and support it.
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The official pages reviewed for Elicit do not report worker pay and conditions, representation or independent follow-through across employees, contractors and AI supply-chain workers. The low evidence score records what those sources leave unanswered; it is not a finding of mistreatment.
1 + 0 + 0 + 0 = 1/10. Documented worker protections; missing disclosure is an evidence gap.
Pay, contractor protections, grievance outcomes and independent checks for Elicit's wider workforce remain unreported in the cited product documentation.
- Pay & conditions0/3
- The reviewed product and legal pages give no qualifying pay or conditions disclosure for AI supply-chain workers.
- Worker voice & remedy0/3
- No worker representation, grievance or remedy mechanism was established in these cited official materials.
- Evidence & follow-through0/3
- No independent worker-level assurance covering the product supply chain was established.
No military relationship for Elicit was identified in the official sources reviewed for this profile.
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The cited product and policy material does not describe a defense customer or military deployment by Elicit. The score reflects an unverified relationship with no published safeguards in these sources, not a confirmed absence.
7 base + 0 safeguard adjustment = 7/10 (0 of 9 safeguard points; every 3 adds 1). No military relationship was established in the cited sources. This ranks above known defense ties without claiming a verified clean record.
This source review does not cover undisclosed customers, contracts, subcontractors or deployments.
- Use restrictions0/4
- No binding military-specific restriction was found in the cited public pages.
- Enforcement & oversight0/3
- No military-specific oversight or remedy was established in the cited public pages.
- Relationship disclosure0/2
- The cited material does not disclose a relevant military relationship.
The official pages reviewed describe the product, service and user terms; they do not identify a defense relationship or deployment. No identity, nationality or unrelated-company inference is used.
Military rubric ↗Elicit is not named in the two official BNC campaign lists; this is not an endorsement.
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The check is limited to the BNC consumer-boycott guide and No Tech campaign. Neither list names Elicit; the result says nothing about other campaigns or suppliers.
This check does not cover every BDS campaign, local campaign, supplier, investment or subsequent list change; it is not an endorsement or clean-record conclusion.