Research Intelligence

Research intelligence that keeps you connected to the evidence.

Explore a question across the literature, bring the evidence together, and understand what it supports — without losing sight of the research underneath.

Forefront connects discovery, evidence synthesis, scientific relationships and confidence into one research environment.

Research Intelligence — ask your library, with focus scopes and starting questions
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02From search results to understanding

Finding the papers is only the beginning.

A literature search can tell you what has been published. Understanding a scientific question means working out which evidence matters, how studies relate, where findings agree, where they conflict and what remains uncertain. Forefront helps you move through that process without breaking the connection to the underlying research.

Discover

Find the relevant evidence

Connect

See relationships across the research

Synthesise

Bring findings together

Evaluate

Understand strength and uncertainty

Follow

See how the evidence changes

03Citation-grounded synthesis

AI that takes you back to the source.

Forefront synthesises across research while preserving the connection between generated insights and the evidence behind them. Follow a claim back to its supporting source, inspect the research yourself, and continue exploring from there.

How citation-grounded synthesis works: generated claims carry inline citation markers that resolve to the sources used
Illustration · how a claim resolves to its sources
Evidence in context

Synthesis is generated across the research you're investigating, not presented as an isolated answer.

Citation grounded

Supporting evidence stays attached to the claims it informs.

Inspectable

Move from an interpretation back to the underlying source whenever you need to go deeper.

Exploratory

Use synthesis to identify patterns, comparisons and questions worth investigating further.

04Explore the evidence

Don’t just summarise the literature. Interrogate it.

Bring research together around a question and examine what the evidence is actually saying. Compare findings, methods and outcomes; surface disagreement; and identify where the literature is strong, fragmented or incomplete.

The Forefront Confidence Engine

How much confidence should the evidence give you?

Not every scientific conclusion deserves the same level of confidence. Forefront’s Confidence Engine brings together the available evidence to help show how strongly a conclusion is supported — including the uncertainty around that assessment.

Evidence confidence — three claims about one treatment, each with its own score, uncertainty range and coverage
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Confidence, not certainty

See an assessment together with its uncertainty rather than reducing complex evidence to a definitive answer.

Evidence composition

Understand what kinds of evidence contribute to an assessment.

Agreement and contradiction

See where findings reinforce one another and where important disagreement remains.

Traceable

Follow the assessment back to the evidence that produced it.

06Connected scientific knowledge

Every answer sits inside a wider scientific context.

Research findings don't exist independently of the diseases, therapies, biological targets, researchers and trials around them. Forefront connects those entities so that investigating one piece of evidence can lead naturally into the wider scientific picture.

Follow the connectionsidentities reconciled across sources
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SemaglutideDrug
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evidence & context
Papers
Explore the evidence
Clinical trials
See clinical activity
Researchers
Find people working on it
Institutions
Explore organisations
Patents
Follow innovation
07Continuity

Research that doesn’t stop when you close the tab.

A research question isn't necessarily finished when you've written a summary. Save the work into Forefront, organise it around a Project or research theme, and return as new evidence appears.

Save the evidence

Keep the research behind an investigation together.

Follow the field

Monitor the topics and Landscapes surrounding it.

See what changed

Surface relevant new research and activity when you return.

Build on previous work

Continue an investigation rather than starting another search from scratch.

08Research intelligence without the black box

AI should help you investigate, not ask you to trust it.

Forefront is being designed around a simple principle: intelligence should remain connected to evidence. That means preserving citations, exposing uncertainty, making underlying sources inspectable and treating conflicting evidence as something to investigate rather than something to smooth away.

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Source-led

Primary evidence remains accessible.

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Traceable

Follow interpretations back to their sources.

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Uncertainty visible

Confidence isn’t presented as certainty.

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Built for exploration

Answers should create better questions.

Don’t stop at finding the research.

Understand how the evidence connects, what it supports and where the questions remain.