Hypothesis
Describe your idea in natural language. Highlight variables, mechanism, and expected outcome.
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Expected effect
State your hypothesis or question — we'll map the unknown around it.
Go beyond simple keyword searches. Paste your idea; our AI analyzes its core structure and maps supporting evidence, contradictions, and causal links across millions of papers and patents. Turn a raw hunch into an evidence-backed thesis—try it on your boldest question.
Describe your idea in natural language. Highlight variables, mechanism, and expected outcome.
We parse the core structure of your idea, then scan millions of papers and patents to map supportive evidence, contradictions, and causal links.
Your hypothesis is consolidated into an evidence-backed thesis, ready for peer review and patent-safe strategy work.
Your ideas and hypotheses always remain yours. Licklider will never use your inputs for product training or internal R&D without consent. We do not share your data with third parties, except when required by law. Our platform complies with global data protection standards, including GDPR and CCPA.
Don’t just match similar ideas. We surface conceptual overlaps, conflicts, and prior art that could undercut novelty, then reveal untapped whitespace—unexplored combinations, mechanisms, or parameter ranges. Refine your idea into a unique, defensible direction—see what you’ve been missing.
Automatically detect hidden prior art and conceptual overlaps with causal-and-conceptual verification to eliminate rework and lab reruns.
Automate patent scouting and draft proposal outlines to cut effort by up to 80%.
Rank hypotheses by feasibility and impact using cutting-edge causal structures to accelerate investment decisions.
Reveal untapped combinations, mechanisms, and parameter ranges to identify defendable research territory.
Surface collisions with prior art and weak claim areas before filing, and suggest design-around options.
Use whitespace maps and risk indicators to shortlist promising directions and cut two weeks off kickoff.
Don’t stop at basic citations. Every relationship on the map links to verifiable papers and patents—ranked for strength, conflict-flagged, and reproducible from fixed data snapshots. Build an audit-ready evidence trail you can trust in peer review, IP strategy, and regulatory work—start tracing your insights now.
We collect papers, patents, and related metadata via public APIs, licensed feeds, and open repositories—always in compliance with provider terms and applicable law. Logos are for identification only and do not imply endorsement.
“I used to rely solely on my advisor to understand where my ideas fit in the global landscape. With this tool, I type a hypothesis and instantly see its position among papers and patents. It’s helped me develop the ability to chart directions on my own—I finally felt like I could stand on my own as a researcher.”
Y. Sato
PhD Candidate, Meiji University
“Since our lab adopted it, the speed of preparing reviews and presentations has jumped. We can run juniors’ ideas through the causal map during group meetings, which raises the quality of mentoring. It lets us honor intuition while filtering risky directions early—huge win for a gene-editing lab.”
Dr. L. Morgan
Senior Scientist, Gene Editing Lab (UK)
“We used to run separate searches in R&D and IP, then spend weeks reconciling results. Now we review the same evidence map, including conflicts and causal links, so legal risk calls are much faster. Having a shared, audit-ready ‘evidence map’ for research and legal has been transformative.”
M. Dubois
IP Manager, Global Pharma (EU)
“We used to spend weeks checking novelty, but now I can validate a student’s hypothesis in just a few hours. Ideas in the lab are instantly mapped against literature and patents, cutting down redundant experiments dramatically. It’s also a teaching breakthrough—students grasp the context of their research so much faster.”
Prof. T. Nakamura
Professor of Genetics, Meiji University
“Exploring CRISPR applications always carried the stress of potential overlap with patents or overlooked studies. This platform highlights causal relationships and contradictions, revealing blind spots that keyword searches would never catch. It feels like having a ‘second mind’ to support my intuition from graduate training.”
Dr. A. Patel
Research Fellow, Gene Editing, Cambridge (MIT PhD)
“Our team drives new drug discovery in areas of high unmet need, and novelty checks plus IP strategy are always our toughest hurdles. Previously, research and legal worked in silos; now this system integrates both views on one screen. Candidate prioritization is faster, decisions clearer, and it’s now embedded as a standard process.”
Dr. E. Schneider
Director of Research, Global Pharma (EU)
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