Journal of the Canadian Health Libraries Association / PMC · Aug 2025
Independent product review describing Undermind.ai’s workflow, Semantic Scholar coverage, GPT-4 reasoning, and its strengths and limitations for literature search.
Company research
Public company, workplace, funding, and market signals
Updated Jul 30, 2026
Overview
Undermind is an AI co-researcher for scientific literature that reads and evaluates hundreds of papers, follows citation trails, and produces citation-backed research reports for researchers and R&D teams. Public profiles disagree on headquarters and some funding taxonomy, so the structured fields below use the most consistently corroborated public facts.
Primary product
AI co-researcher / AI literature search assistant
Founded
2023
Headquarters
Dover, Delaware, United States
Team size
1-10
Industry
Research Services
Sub-industry
AI literature search / research assistant
Offices
Dover, Delaware, United States
San Francisco, California, United States
Paris, Île-de-France, France
Business model
freemium SaaS
subscription
enterprise software
API
custom enterprise platform
Funding
Stage
Seed VC
Total raised
$500K
Latest round
Seed VC · Sep 2024
Latest amount
$500K
Sep 2024 · Transpose Platform
Jan 2024
People & investors
Leadership
CEO and Co-Founder
CTO and Co-Founder
Founding Research Engineer
Work & culture
Built by researchers; founders are MIT quantum physics PhDs, and the company’s public messaging emphasizes careful, systematic, evidence-grounded research.
Benefits
Free tier
Pro tier
Team tier
Enterprise security
No training on customer data
Secure cloud encryption
IP ownership
Automated alerts for new research
Product & market
Pricing
Freemium subscription with free, Pro, Team, and custom Enterprise tiers
Differentiators
- —Reads and evaluates hundreds of papers
- —Follows citation trails
- —Citation-backed reports with inline links
- —Domain-specific knowledge models
- —Automated monitoring alerts
- —No training on customer data
Technology
GPT-4
Semantic Scholar
arXiv
LLM reasoning
citation-trail traversal
inline citations
API
web app
Customers
GSK
scientific researchers
R&D teams
medical researchers
biotech teams
machine learning researchers
finance researchers
Competitors
Google Scholar
PubMed
Elicit
generic LLM chat tools
vector search / RAG tools
Scale & contact
Latest news
Boston Computation Club / YouTube · Aug 2024
Talk/interview introducing Undermind and its scientific-search approach, with Joshua Ramette discussing the product and founding story.
Joshua Ramette on LinkedIn · Aug 2024
Launch/demo post showing how to use Undermind for complex research topics.
Undermind
Official case study describing deployment at GSK, with 1000+ scientists using Undermind and integration into GSK’s AI Scientist stack.
Y Combinator
YC company profile describing Undermind as an AI agent for scientific research and identifying Joshua Ramette and Tom Hartke as the founders.
Jobs and careers at Undermind
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