An AI research methods mentor

Think through your research.

From finding a research problem to getting feedback on a manuscript draft, work through each stage with explanations that connect to your study.

You make the decisions and do the writing.

Free to use. Currently in testing.

Example conversation

Example study

Paige

What issue in your work or area of interest would you like to understand better?

Why so many mothers at our clinic stop breastfeeding in the first month.

Paige

What have you noticed that made you interested in this area?

PaperPrep’s replies come from an AI model and may contain mistakes.

Start where you are

Choose where to begin. You’ll sign in with your email first.

  1. Finding a research problem
  2. Sharpening a research question
  3. Choosing a research design
  4. Checking a protocol or proposal
  5. Analyzing research data
  6. Writing up a study
  7. Getting feedback on a manuscript draft
  8. I'm not sure where to start

A mentor, not a ghostwriter

Paige teaches the reasoning behind each choice so you can make it yourself. The decisions and the writing stay yours.

What Paige does

  • Asks questions

    Ones that help you sharpen your problem, your question and your choices.

  • Explains and compares

    The designs and methods that could fit your study, and the reasoning behind each.

  • Reads your draft

    Item by item against the reporting guideline for its design, quoting the lines each finding relies on.

  • Checks the numbers

    Sample sizes and arithmetic come from calculators that run in code, not guesses.

  • Peer review

    Three AI reviewers read your draft for methods and statistics, subject matter, and reporting and clarity. You respond to each comment, Paige gives feedback on your responses, and the changes you commit to become your checklist. No verdict on your paper, and no rewriting it for you.

What Paige won’t do

  • Write it for you

    Not your protocol, your aims or your paper.

  • Decide for you

    Paige can suggest an entry for your study record. Nothing goes in until you add it, in your own words.

AI use disclosure

Show how you used PaperPrep

Journals ask authors to disclose how they used AI. PaperPrep writes a disclosure statement for your manuscript from what it recorded in your study, with a record behind it that you can choose to share.

  • Written from the record

    The statement names only what PaperPrep recorded in your study, such as conversations with Paige, draft readings and calculations. You can’t edit its wording or its counts.

  • You choose what to show

    Dates, counts and excerpts from your conversation stay out of the record unless you add them. Sharing is off until you turn it on.

  • Turn the link off any time

    The record’s page then says only that it is not available. Each version you publish stays as it was.

  • Clear about its limits

    The record covers PaperPrep alone. It says nothing about your conduct, your manuscript’s originality or whether it meets a journal’s policy.

Examples

How Paige responds

Invented studies. PaperPrep’s replies come from an AI model and may contain mistakes.

ExampleChoosing a research design

Our district started text-message reminders for antenatal visits in March. I want to know whether they increased attendance.

Paige

The district chose when to start, so attendance may already have been changing before March. If you follow monthly attendance for a long stretch before and after the start, an interrupted time series, you can see whether the trend shifts when the reminders began. How many months of records do you have from before March?

ExampleA comment on your draft

Your words

Participants were selected randomly from the clinic register.

Paige

A reader will want to know how the names were drawn and by whom, because that shows whether every woman on the register had the same chance of being chosen. Try a sentence of your own that says how it was done.

Data handling

Privacy and trust come first

  • Your work stays yours

  • Never used to train AI models

  • Delete a study or your account any time