We onboard research groups one at a time. Cohort 1 is forming now.
Axy maps research at the concept level — not citations, but ideas. Upload your papers and a knowledge graph emerges. Your lab’s understanding becomes something the next person can actually inherit.
2,400+ researchers · 47 institutions · One shared map being built
10M+
Researchers each rebuilding the same map from scratch
23%
Of work time spent re-reading what others already mapped
$150B
Spent annually on "catching up"
2 yrs
For a new lab member to inherit what came before
That process hasn’t changed in 50 years. It is slow, solitary, and painful. And it looks like this.
You open a new research area. There are 40,000 papers. You start reading the ones from the last five years, then their citations, then their citations' citations. Six months later, you're not sure you've found the foundational papers — or just the ones that other people cited.
Three researchers in your department independently reviewed the same body of literature last year. Nobody knew. The mental models they built live in their heads, unreachable by anyone else, and will retire when they do.
When a new postdoc joins a lab, it takes two years just to read what already exists in the field. Two years of productive research time spent rebuilding a mental model that already exists in the outgoing postdoc's head.
A version-controlled knowledge graph the whole lab can read, fork, and build on — so what one researcher knows doesn’t retire with them.
“GitHub didn’t just give developers a place to store code. It made collaboration the default — every commit made the codebase more valuable to whoever came next. Axy is the same bet for a research lab. Each researcher’s graph compounds into something the whole group can inherit and improve on.”
Axy maps your field at the concept level — actual ideas, not citations. Upload your papers and within hours you see the clusters, the bridges, the gaps.
No more six-month orientations.
Axy turns a researcher's mental model into a forkable graph the lab can see and build on. The next person doesn't start from zero — they start from your shoulders.
The map stays. Even when the researcher leaves.
Fork a senior researcher's graph and inherit a decade of reading — concepts they weighted, gaps they spotted, all explicit and yours to build on.
Day one feels like year two.
This is not a newsletter signup. It is an application. We read every one. We invite in cohorts of 50, prioritising labs that want to map their own work first and contribute to their public knowledge graph — not just use a product.
We'll review your application within 7 days. Share your link to move up — every accepted referral bumps your position.
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Short answers to the questions researchers ask before they apply.
Axy maps a field at the concept level — surfacing clusters, bridges, and structural gaps within hours of uploading a paper collection — so foundational work is visible before any abstract is read. No more six-month orientations.
Axy turns each researcher's mental model into a living graph the whole lab can see, fork, and build on. Institutional knowledge stops being locked in one head; the map stays even when the researcher leaves.
A new postdoc can fork a senior researcher's Axy graph on day one — inheriting a decade of reading, weighted concepts, spotted gaps, and connections, all explicit and navigable. Day one feels like year two.
Reference managers like Zotero or Mendeley organize papers — flat lists of PDFs and citations. Axy organizes knowledge. It maps the concepts inside those papers into a structured graph that captures what a researcher has learned, not just what they have read. The graph is version-controlled, collaborative, and forkable, so a lab's understanding compounds instead of retiring with each person.
It stays. That is the core problem Axy solves. Today, when a postdoc leaves, their mental model of the field leaves with them. With Axy, the knowledge graph they built is a permanent, forkable asset the lab inherits — the next person does not start from scratch, they start from where the last person left off.
