Frequently asked questions.

Axy maps a field at the concept level — surfacing clusters, bridges, and structural gaps within hours of uploading a paper collection — so foundational work is visible before any abstract is read. No more six-month orientations.

Axy turns each researcher's mental model into a living graph the whole lab can see, fork, and build on. Institutional knowledge stops being locked in one head; the map stays even when the researcher leaves.

A new postdoc can fork a senior researcher's Axy graph on day one — inheriting a decade of reading, weighted concepts, spotted gaps, and connections, all explicit and navigable. Day one feels like year two.

Reference managers like Zotero or Mendeley organize papers — flat lists of PDFs and citations. Axy organizes knowledge. It maps the concepts inside those papers into a structured graph that captures what a researcher has learned, not just what they have read. The graph is version-controlled, collaborative, and forkable, so a lab's understanding compounds instead of retiring with each person.

It stays. That is the core problem Axy solves. Today, when a postdoc leaves, their mental model of the field leaves with them. With Axy, the knowledge graph they built is a permanent, forkable asset the lab inherits — the next person does not start from scratch, they start from where the last person left off.