For the long work of a PhD
The papers you’ve read. The questions you keep returning to. The argument taking shape. Give them a place to come together.
1 active project · 75 sourcesNo credit card required
An optional AI advisor helps with the work. The thinking and writing stay yours.
Here’s how it comes togetherBegin with your reading
Bring your papers, notes, and research questions into one project. The work you’ve already done becomes the place you start.
Import a Zotero library, upload PDFs, or paste references. One paper is enough to begin.
Your first ten minutes
Follow the connections
Link what you’re reading to what you’re trying to find out. See the sources behind a question, the notes between them, and the evidence still missing.
The Map makes those relationships visible, so you can decide where to look more closely.
Find your next move
Between meetings with your real advisor, bring a question or a doubt to Quester. Its AI advisor draws on your project to help you work out what comes next.
“Which of my questions needs more evidence?”
It helps you examine the evidence. The argument and the writing stay yours. You can turn it off and keep using your workspace.
Why we built it this way
One project. A clearer picture as you go.
Built on decades of
dissertation advising.
“It teaches me aspects of research that weren’t covered in my coursework. It’s more than a tool; it’s a mentor in my academic pursuits.”
Used by individual researchers from
Make room for your research
Bring something you’re reading and a question you’re working on. Build the rest as you go.
Free to begin. Room to grow.Free
1 active project · 75 sources
No time limit
Start free No credit card required$180/year
Unlimited projects and sources
Billed annually Or $22/month, billed monthly
Explore ScholarImport 8 sources to try Scholar free for 14 days. No auto-renewal. Your work stays when the preview ends.
No. By design and by belief. The advisor declines tasks that constitute authorship: drafts of chapters, generated literature reviews, and written conclusions. It handles citations, summaries, gap-finding, methodology checks, and the executional work of scholarship. The thinking stays with you.
No. Sources, notes, and questions aren't used to train any AI model, whether Quester's or otherwise. Pre-publication work stays private.
Quester works as a structured workspace without the advisor on. You'll have sources, notes, questions, and methodology organized whether or not you ever use the AI. Many users start in this mode and turn the advisor on later, if at all.
Bringing a whole cohort? Plans for departments →