All Posts by Eric Olson

We are thrilled to officially launch the Consensus Copilot! The Consensus Copilot brings a new dimension of flexibility to our product, while still having every response grounded in reliable scientific studies. You can ask Copilot to complete a variety of different research tasks and provide answers in a variety of formats. The Consensus Copilot can… […]

We are thrilled to launch our brand new AI-enabled search filters! The most advanced set of search filters on the market allows you to filter your Consensus searches by… Sample size of the study Population studied (human, animal, in-vitro) 9 different study types Journal prestige And many more! To use our new filters, click the button with three dashes on the […]

Today, we are thrilled to unveil the most monumental upgrade to Consensus ever! We have dubbed it Consensus 2.0.  Consensus 2.0 reflects the commitment to our users to build the BEST academic search engine in the world. We have completely overhauled the way a Consensus search works, improving its speed, precision, and most importantly, our […]

We wanted to create Consensus to make getting good information easy. There is so much information in the world, yet so little of it is based on real evidence. For many subjects and debates, the evidence exists, its just hard to find, and even harder to consume. This series will take a variety of important […]

We wanted to create Consensus to make getting good information easy. There is so much information in the world, yet so little of it is based on real evidence. For many subjects and debates, the evidence exists, its just hard to find, and even harder to consume. This series will take a variety of important […]

We wanted to create Consensus to make getting good information easy. There is so much information in the world, yet so little of it is based on real evidence. For many subjects and debates, the evidence exists, its just hard to find, and even harder to consume. This series will take a variety of important […]

At Consensus, our mission is to make the world’s expert knowledge consumable by all. We publicly launched our search engine in September 2022 which uses AI to surface and synthesize answers from scientific research. Since then, we have experienced rapid growth, attracting nearly 200,000 registered users driven exclusively by word-of-mouth sharing. Today, we are thrilled […]

The idea for Consensus came from wanting instant answers to the question: ‘what does the science actually say about x,y,z?’ Today, we are attacking the topical question and asking, what does the research say about… The relationship between gas stoves and asthma The studies returned give very conflicting results with one another, read on to […]

Thanksgiving means lots and lots of family time. While this is wonderful and all, it also inevitably means heated political discussions are bound to occur. Consensus was created to give people a way to quickly learn what the research says about their questions. Why not use it to bring some evidence to the family dinner […]

The idea for Consensus came from wanting instant answers to the question: “what does the science actually say about XYZ?” Now that the product is alive, we will be sending out interesting things we learned using Consensus. Today, we are thrilled to be sharing our first ever user submitted query of the week! We are […]