The integrity-first research workspace
Research you can prove is yours.
A detector returns a probability about a person. Folio returns a record about the work: every source resolved, every retraction flagged, and an authorship report that holds up when the question is asked.
Free to start, no credit card. See what is free.
Five references, as a draft might cite them.
Live lookup. No account.Karpicke JD, Roediger HL. The critical importance of retrieval for learning. Science. 2008;319(5865):966-968. doi:10.1126/science.1152408
Cepeda NJ, Pashler H, Vul E, Wixted JT, Rohrer D. Distributed practice in verbal recall tasks: A review and quantitative synthesis. Psychological Bulletin. 2006;132(3):354-380. doi:10.1037/0033-2909.132.3.354
Wakefield AJ, Murch SH, Anthony A, et al. Ileal-lymphoid-nodular hyperplasia, non-specific colitis, and pervasive developmental disorder in children. Lancet. 1998;351(9103):637-641. doi:10.1016/S0140-6736(97)11096-0
Cortez M, Hollingsworth J. A latent transformer architecture for zero-shot protein folding in low-resource settings. Journal of Computational Biology. 2021;28(4):112-140.
Kahneman D. Thinking, Fast and Slow. New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux; 2011.
The check starts on its own. Nothing is stored.
From the first search to the signed draft.
Five moments, recorded in the product on real papers. Nothing on this band is a mockup.
Multi-source academic search, read the abstract in place, and save straight into the library: no separate import step.
OpenAlex, Crossref, arXiv, Europe PMC and eight more, queried at once. The abstract opens in place, and one click saves the paper into the library with its DOI and open-access status attached.
How search worksNothing reaches the bibliography unchecked.
AI made a plausible citation free to produce. Folio runs every source through four checks, each one open to try from this page without an account, and each one leaves a record.
Resolved at import
Paste a URL, DOI or ISBN and the real record comes back from Crossref, OpenAlex or Open Library. The citation matches the source instead of resembling one.
Check a bibliographyCrossref recordThe Critical Importance of Retrieval for Learningdoi 10.1126/science.1152408, Science, 2008Screened for retractions
Retracted work and expressions of concern are flagged before they reach a bibliography, so a withdrawn study never quietly props up an argument.
Try it on a real retractionRetraction noticeRetracted by The Lancetdoi 10.1016/S0140-6736(97)11096-0, 1998Grounded in your library
Scholar AI reads only the sources in the library, and every claim links to the passage it came from. No open-web guessing, so no invented reference to catch later.
How grounding worksHow a grounded claim readsSpacing study sessions improves delayed recall.Cepeda et al., Psychological Bulletin, 2006Signed on export
A finished draft exports an authorship report, and a figure exports a certificate. Anyone holding the code opens the public page and checks the hashes themselves.
How verification worksSHA-256 fingerprintRecord JVSPC77XEZ046259ff5ee8 … 5eb0e575Yours, on the record.
Twelve sources. One search.
Folio queries the open scholarly record directly and verifies citations against it, rather than against whatever the open web returns.
- OpenAlexOpen scholarly catalog
- CrossrefRegistered DOIs
- arXivPreprints
- Europe PMCLife sciences & medicine
- DOAJOpen-access journals
- Semantic ScholarAI-indexed papers
- Google BooksBooks & monographs
- Open LibraryOpen & borrowable books
- WebAcross the open web
- YouTubeLectures & talks
- NewsTrade press & tech discussion
- WikipediaBackground & context
Import from Zotero, ORCID, a DOI, BibTeX, RIS or DOCX. Export to DOCX, PDF, BibTeX, RIS or CSL-JSON. Take the data back out whenever you like.
Three ways in.
Free for the researcher, free for the instructor, and on its own address for the institution.
Researchers and graduate students
A record from the first draft.
- Bring the library in: Zotero, ORCID, BibTeX, RIS or a DOCX.
- Write with two-bracket citations that resolve to your library, and check the draft's citations and claims when you ask: 5 checks a month free, and claims checked as you write on Fellow.
- Export DOCX or PDF with the authorship report and a public certificate.
No card, no expiry. Fellow when you want the reading done for you.
Instructors
Proof, not detector guesses.
One assignment link. Every submission arrives with a verifiable record of how it was written: the process, the citations, the AI use. Students submit on free accounts, and Classroom stays free for the instructor.
Departments and institutions
Your colors, on your address.
Courses, enrollment and records on a branded subdomain, with the same integrity record behind every submission. A live demo campus is open to walk through, no call required.
Beyond the draft.
Three more places the record follows the work.
Your library, as a map.
Sources and drafts drawn as one graph, with reading state, open-access status and DOIs tracked per item. Scholar AI answers from what is in it and nothing else.
Discovery and the library
Sources and drafts on one mapFigures that carry their own record.
Charts, PRISMA and CONSORT flows and forest plots are drawn from a sheet in Folio Studio and exported print-ready. A diagram or forest plot can be made verifiable, with a public certificate that recomputes its numbers from the stored data.
Open Folio Studio
Pooled estimate, I² and τ², computedFolio inside ChatGPT and Claude.
The reference check, the library and the agents, reachable from an assistant through the Folio connector. The assistant asks. Folio answers from the record.
The Folio connector
One verdict per reference, inside the assistantFree for the writing. Paid for the reading.
Scholar is free with no expiry. Fellow and Chair add the agents that read overnight, the checks on every draft, and the reach.
Scholar
For writing and proving.
Freeforever, no card
- Unlimited documents and sources
- Six citation styles, DOCX and PDF export
- 40 literature searches a day
- 3 authorship certificates a month
- A monthly taste of AI: 3 Research & start briefs, 10 Scholar AI answers, 3 proofreads
- 5 citation or claim checks a month, run when you ask
- Classroom, Studio and the reference checker, free
Fellow
For keeping up with a field.
$9.99a month, or $99 a year (17% less)
- Everything in Scholar
- Unlimited literature search, with AI synthesis 10 times a day
- 3 discovery agents and Research Radar, 10 trackers
- Citation and claim checks on every draft, 20 a day including claims checked as you write, and a daily document audit
- Unlimited authorship certificates, and the Reviewer panel
- Version history on every document
Chair
For supervisors and teams.
$25a month, or $250 a year (17% less)
- Everything in Fellow
- 10 discovery agents, with Deep Scan and briefing audio
- Scholar AI inside the co-editing chat
- Unlimited proofreading, Surveyor with no cap per study (up to 1,000 responses per link), priority support
Cancel any time; the plan runs to the end of the period. Seasonal offers, when one is running, apply at checkout with no code. The full comparison
The questions that decide it.
Short answers, each one linking to the page that says the same thing at length.
No. Folio resolves citations, checks claims against the library, flags retractions and keeps the record. The writing is the author’s, and the authorship report shows where the assistance stopped.
How Folio handles AIA detector returns a probability about a person. The authorship report is a record about the work: how the draft was composed, which sources it stands on, where AI assisted, all hashed and checkable by anyone holding the code. A growing list of universities has stepped back from detectors for that reason.
Who turned detection off, with sourcesYes. No card, no trial, no expiry: unlimited documents and sources, six citation styles, DOCX and PDF export, forty literature searches a day and three authorship certificates a month. Fellow and Chair add the agents and the checks.
The full comparisonImport from Zotero, ORCID, a DOI, BibTeX, RIS or DOCX. Export drafts to DOCX or PDF and references to BibTeX, RIS or CSL-JSON at any time, and delete the account from settings. There is no lock-in to leave.
Export, deletion and access rightsDocuments and sources are stored encrypted, never sold and never used to train models. Folio is built to a GDPR-aligned standard, and a data processing agreement is available on request.
The trust pageWhat is real on this page: the check in the hero runs live against the public route. Every image is a capture of the product on fictional data. The certificate is real: JVSPC77XEZ.
Your next paper starts here.
Free to start. Bring the sources in, write with citations that resolve, and export the record with the draft.
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