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[A] Ask My Papers · from Tasman Intelligence Lab
Ask your papers.
See where every answer comes from.[1]
A private assistant that understands your publications and answers in plain language, drawing only on what they say. Your work never trains AI.
- Pro free for 14 days
- No card
- Live in about five minutes
See plansAdd it to your profile
- Each answer lists the papers it drew on and the PDF pages it read, linked to the publisher. Your papers are never used to train any AI model, and you can delete everything at any time.
Try it on a few published papers[3]
Draw any insight from these papers with the demo assistant: Lassa virus · 2024: Modelling Lassa virus dynamics in West African Mastomys natalensis and the impact of human activities Travel and disease spread · 2024: High connectivity and human movement limits the impact of travel time on infectious disease transmission Coronavirus hotspots · 2023: Using drivers and transmission pathways to identify SARS-like coronavirus spillover risk hotspots Bat hosts · 2022: Present and future distribution of bat hosts of sarbecoviruses: implications for conservation and public health Ebola in primates · 2022: Transmission models indicate Ebola virus persistence in non-human primate populations is unlikely Land use and disease · 2025: Land use change and infectious disease emergence
It answers only from these papers and links each source. Ask something they don’t cover and it says so. Please don’t type personal information. How your questions are handled
- Median answer time was about 1.5 seconds across 12 test questions on 27 September 2026.
Reading is the bottleneck
A busy research group adds dozens of papers, reports and drafts every year. The answer you need is in there somewhere, but keyword search finds words, not answers, and general chatbots will happily invent a reference that looks real.[2]
Ask My Papers only works from the documents you give it. When the answer isn’t in them, it says so.
- Walters, W. H. & Wilder, E. I. (2023). Fabrication and errors in the bibliographic citations generated by ChatGPT. Scientific Reports 13, 14045. doi:10.1038/s41598-023-41032-5
Three steps, about five minutes
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Add your papers
Sign in with ORCID or email, then pick papers from your ORCID record, paste a DOI or arXiv link, or upload a PDF. Text PDFs work best.
- [2]
We read and map them
Each paper is broken into passages and mapped by meaning, so a question finds the right passage even in different words. Every answer names the paper and page it drew on.
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Put it to work
Embed the assistant on your lab or personal website, or share a private link with your group.
Put it where people already look for you
Every plan comes with a private kit: ready-made ways to share your assistant, each one copy and paste. Type your name to see yours.
Your assistant: papers.tasmanlab.com/jane-smith
QR code
For posters, slides and printed papers.
Email signature
One line under every email you send.
Website button
Floats in the corner of your site, like the one on this page.
Start free
The kit comes with every plan, Free included. See every option
Start free. Stay for what Pro reads.
Every assistant starts on Pro, free for 14 days. Prices in New Zealand dollars, including GST where it applies.
Free
Free forever
A real assistant on your key papers, yours to keep.
NZ$0No card, no end date
Start freeIncluded
- Your own assistant at papers.tasmanlab.com
- Every answer cites the paper and page
- The full share kit: badge, QR code, email signature, website button
- 3 papers and 50 visitor questions a month
Move up any time. Nothing you’ve added is lost.
Researcher
Starts with 14 days free
Your whole body of work, read precisely.
NZ$19per month
Try Pro free for 14 daysEverything in Free, plus
- Precise maths and tables
- Thorough answers for hard questions
- About 70 papers, 1,000 questions a month
- Visitor insights (coming soon)
- Your brand only, no badge (coming soon)
Founding members pay NZ$9 a month, for as long as they stay. First 10 researchers only.
Lab
Set up with you
One assistant for a whole research group.
NZ$99per month
Set up a lab with usEverything in Researcher, plus
- About 700 papers, 10,000 questions a month
- Your lab’s name and colours
- 5 widgets or share links
- Papers, protocols and theses added for you
Or try it free on your own first.
Institution
Private hosting or your own cloud, single sign-on and larger collections, for departments and institutes. From NZ$400 a month hosting.
Cancel any time; see the terms for refunds. Compare every feature
Also from the lab
Private AI builds
The same careful approach for an organisation’s own documents: policies, reports, technical manuals. Hosted by us or inside your own cloud, and yours to keep.
From NZ$6,000
Training and workshops
Hands-on sessions for research teams on using AI tools well: when to trust them, how to check them, and how to keep data private.
Priced by quote
Who’s behind it
Dr Reju Sam John
Founder
Physicist turned computational epidemiologist and co-author of 11 peer-reviewed papers. He built the system in the demo above, here in Tāmaki Makaurau.
Dr Melinda Mariam Thomas
Research director
PhD in molecular medicine, with a background in medical publishing and oncology clinical trials.
Questions people ask first
Are my documents used to train AI models?
No. Your documents are used only to answer your questions. They are not used to train our models or anyone else’s.
Where is my data kept?
Documents and the search index are stored on Cloudflare’s infrastructure. Answers are written by a leading language model hosted in the United States, with back-up models on Cloudflare. It sees only the question and the few passages needed to answer it. Institution plans can run entirely inside your own cloud.
What if the answer isn’t in my papers?
It tells you it can’t find the answer in your documents. It won’t fill the gap with a guess.
Can I cancel?
Yes. Monthly plans can be cancelled at any time, and we delete your documents and index within 30 days.
Start with an email
Tell us roughly how many papers you have and where you’d like the assistant to live. We reply within two working days.
Ask my research
This is the button your visitors see. On your site it answers from your papers.