Research Library Integration
Synthesize 200 papers
in 30 minutes.
Import your Zotero, Mendeley, or EndNote library. Ask AI to find themes, contradictions, and gaps across your entire corpus - every answer traced to (Author, Year). Locally, on your machine.
Early access: $149/year (regular $299/year). Research library integration included.
The Problem
Your reference manager stores papers.
It can't think across them.
You've collected hundreds of papers over months. You know the answers are in there. But when it's time to synthesize - write a literature review, compare arguments, find gaps - you hit a wall.
AI loses your metadata
Dump PDFs into ChatGPT and every citation becomes "according to the document." Authors, year, journal - all gone.
Reference managers are for storage, not synthesis
Zotero, Mendeley, EndNote - excellent at organizing. Useless at answering "what does my library say about X?"
Cloud AI requires uploading sensitive research
Unpublished manuscripts, proprietary datasets, embargoed findings - sent to servers you don't control.
No traceability from synthesis to source
AI gives you a paragraph. You can't click through to the exact passage in the exact paper. The reasoning chain is lost.
How It Works
Five steps. Your library to cited synthesis.
Export
Export your library from Zotero, Mendeley, EndNote, or any reference manager as .ris or .bib - alongside the PDFs.
Import
Drop the reference file + PDF folder into Korvo. It parses metadata (authors, year, journal, DOI) and matches each PDF to its reference.
Index
Korvo chunks and embeds every paper locally - using the same RAG pipeline, now enriched with academic metadata. Nothing leaves your machine.
Synthesize
Ask questions across your entire library. Korvo retrieves relevant passages and generates answers with inline (Author, Year) citations - not "file.pdf chunk 3".
Trace
Every citation links back to the exact passage in the source paper. Click to verify. Full provenance, always.
Before & After
What changes when your citations
are metadata-aware.
Before
Dump 200 PDFs into ChatGPT → AI says "according to the document"
After
AI says "(Smith & Doe, 2024)" with full bibliographic metadata
Before
Upload sensitive unpublished research to cloud servers
After
Everything stays on your machine. BYOK - your keys, your data.
Before
Manually search papers one at a time in your reference manager
After
"What does my library say about X?" → cited synthesis in 30 seconds
Before
Lose the reasoning trail behind your literature review
After
Decision Journal traces every synthesis back to its source papers
Citation Quality
Real citations, not filename references.
AI Response - Literature Synthesis
The literature suggests that AI tools significantly affect decision-making processes (Smith & Doe, 2024), particularly in contexts where information overload is a factor (Johnson, 2023). However, some researchers argue that the effect is moderated by domain expertise (Lee et al., 2024).
References (clickable → source passage)
1. Smith, J. & Doe, J. (2024). The Impact of AI on Decision Making. Journal of Artificial Intelligence, 42, 123–145.
2. Johnson, R. (2023). Information Overload in the Age of AI. Cognitive Science Review, 18(3), 45–67.
3. Lee, S., Park, H., & Kim, J. (2024). Domain Expertise as a Moderator… Proceedings of CHI 2024, 892–901.
Every citation links to the exact chunk in the source PDF. Click to verify.
Built For
People who think across
hundreds of sources.
"I've read 200 papers and can't synthesize them."
Import your reference library, ask Korvo to find themes, contradictions, and gaps across your entire corpus. Get answers with proper (Author, Year) citations - ready for your dissertation.
"Screening 2,000 abstracts manually takes weeks."
Import your search results, let Korvo help you classify, extract, and synthesize. Every decision is traceable to the source paper - fully auditable.
"I have 3 years of industry reports and no way to query them."
Drop in your report archive with a BibTeX file. Ask "What do our reports say about market X?" and get cited, structured answers in seconds.
"My thesis needs a literature review across 150 sources."
Export from Zotero or Mendeley, import into Korvo, and generate a structured literature review section with proper academic citations. All locally.
Compatible With
Works with every major reference manager.
Any tool that exports .ris or .bib - which is all of them.
Zotero
10M+ · Free, open source
Mendeley
6M+ · Elsevier-owned
EndNote
Enterprise · ~$250/year
Papers
macOS · ReadCube
Paperpile
Web-based · Google Docs integration
JabRef
Open source · BibTeX-native
Korvo works alongside your reference manager - not instead of it. Keep using Zotero/Mendeley/EndNote for organizing. Use Korvo for synthesis.
Privacy
Your unpublished research
never leaves your machine.
Local RAG indexing
Papers are chunked, embedded, and stored locally. No cloud vector databases. No uploads to third-party services.
Bring your own keys
Use your own OpenAI, Anthropic, or Google API keys. Queries go directly from your machine to the model provider. We never see them.
No training on your data
Your papers, notes, and synthesis outputs are never used to train any model. Your research stays yours.
Full data control
Delete any paper, library, or project at any time. Export everything. No lock-in, no residual copies.
Stop re-reading papers.
Start synthesizing them.
Import your library. Ask hard questions. Get cited answers. All on your machine, all traceable, all private.