Lateral

Lateral is an innovative AI-powered tool designed to streamline your research workflow. It enables researchers, students, and academics to search, save, and organize their findings across numerous papers efficiently. With Lateral, you can complete your research up to 10 times faster, making it an essential resource for anyone involved in literature reviews, dissertations, or collaborative research. Whether you're an educator looking to gather information for curriculum development or a journalist seeking connections for your stories, Lateral provides the tools you need to enhance your productivity and effectiveness.

Features of Lateral

1. Auto-Generated Table

Lateral automatically generates a comprehensive table that keeps track of all your findings, ensuring you never lose a reference. This feature is invaluable for maintaining organization throughout your research process.

2. AI-Powered Concepts

Simply name a concept, and Lateral will intelligently recommend relevant text across all your papers. This feature helps you discover insights that may have otherwise gone unnoticed.

3. Super Search

Conduct a search across all your papers simultaneously and view similar highlights for every search result. This powerful search capability saves time and enhances the depth of your research.

4. Smart PDF Reader

Lateral's Smart PDF Reader allows you to read and highlight directly in your browser, helping you find connections you may have missed while reading.

5. Export Your Findings

Easily export your findings from the Table View directly into a Word document or Excel file, complete with references. This feature simplifies the process of compiling your research.

6. Find 30m+ Research Papers

Lateral provides access to over 30 million research papers. You can upload existing PDFs or find new papers through the integrated paper search.

7. Powerful OCR

Digitize text from scanned PDFs, making it searchable and highlightable. This feature is essential for working with physical documents.

8. Collaborate & Share

Invite others to your workspace or share a limited public link of your project, facilitating collaboration on research projects.

9. Zotero Integration (Coming Soon)

Lateral will soon offer integration with Zotero, allowing for seamless syncing of documents between Zotero and your projects.

Frequently Asked Questions about Lateral

What are Page Credits?

When you begin using Lateral and add PDF files, it uses up 'Page Credits' based on how many pages are in your PDFs. You start with 500 Page Credits when you join. Once you use them all, you’ll need to subscribe to a plan to get more Credits.

What is Lateral Supreme?

Lateral Supreme is a subscription that allows you to use up to 2,500 Page Credits within a month. If you choose to pay for the whole year, you can use up to 30,000 Page Credits for the entire year.

Does Lateral use GPT?

No, Lateral does not use GPT. We have built our own machine learning technology (LIP API) to make content suggestions, ensuring your content remains private.

What happens to the documents I upload to Lateral?

When you upload documents, they stay private and only you can see them in your workspace. We don’t share them with other users.

Does Lateral work on mobile?

Currently, Lateral is only available on desktop.