Our story
Acteams started as a frustration shared by every researcher we knew: the knowledge that made a project brilliant was scattered across tabs, inboxes, and individual notes that nobody else could find.
2023
A research team we worked with was writing a meta-analysis. Twelve people, hundreds of papers, months of work. Halfway through, a key contributor left — and took half the context with them. Nobody knew which studies had been read, which claims were supported, which methodological decisions had been made and why.
The project recovered, but barely. And the problem wasn't unusual. Every lab we talked to had a version of the same story: knowledge that lived in one person's head, in a folder nobody had organised, in a thread nobody could find.
We built Acteams to give research teams a shared brain — a place where the literature, the decisions, the annotations, and the writing all live together, in context, permanently accessible to everyone working on the project.
AI that generates confident-sounding text without grounding it in your actual literature is worse than no AI at all. Every answer Acteams gives is tied to the papers you uploaded.
We don't train on your research. We don't resell your data. The work you do on Acteams belongs to you and your team — not to us.
Research requires you to know why a claim is being made, not just what it is. We show our sources, we flag uncertainty, and we let you see the reasoning behind every AI-assisted answer.
We are not building a tool for fast, shallow engagement. Good research is deliberate. The interface should support that — not interrupt it.
We are a small team of researchers and engineers. Between us, we have spent time in academic labs, in clinical trials, in data science teams, and in software companies that built tools researchers actually use.
We are based in Europe. We have GDPR obligations and we take them seriously — not as a compliance checkbox, but as a design constraint that reflects our actual values about data stewardship.
We are building Acteams in the open: we publish our product decisions, our reasoning, and our limitations. If you work in research and want to shape what we build next, we want to hear from you.
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