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Slate helps you go from a question to a cited report. Search the web, bring your own sources, and get back a structured document - not another chat thread.

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Web Research

From topic to report.

Give Slate a subject and a depth. It plans the search, reads multiple sources across the web, and writes a structured report with inline citations you can verify.

  • Multi-step research pipeline (plan, search, read, write)
  • Inline citations linked to sources
  • Adjustable depth and audience
URBAN HEAT ISLAND MITIGATION: A LITERATURE REVIEW

Urban heat island (UHI) intensity in tropical cities has increased by an average of 0.5°C per decade since 1990, with Jakarta and Manila showing the steepest gradients [1].

High-albedo surfaces and urban vegetation remain the most cost-effective interventions, with cool-roof programs in Singapore reducing peak surface temperatures by 4-7°C [2][3].

Recent meta-analyses suggest combined green-and-grey strategies outperform single interventions by a factor of 1.8x [4].

[1] IPCC AR6 WGII [2] Nature Cities 2024 [3] BCA Singapore [4] Urban Climate Review
Bring Your Own Sources

Mix the web with your own materials.

Upload PDFs, paste URLs, or drop in YouTube transcripts. Slate reads them alongside its web search and weaves both into a single report - so your literature, your data, and the open web all show up in one document.

  • PDFs, documents, web pages, and YouTube
  • Sources cited by filename, not just URL
  • Compare-sources mode to spot disagreement
PDF
Smith et al.
Heat island studies, 2023
URL
nature.com/articles/
cool-roof-meta-analysis
YouTube
MIT lecture: Urban
climate adaptation
+ web search → one cited report
Notebook (New)

Or just chat with your papers.

Open Notebook and drop in PDFs you already have. Slate extracts text and figures, then you ask questions in a chat that cites the exact page each answer came from. No web search, no report - just your sources, your questions, fast.

  • Upload PDFs up to 50 MB, extracted in ~15 seconds
  • Click [N] citation chips to preview the cited page
  • Cross-modal: text queries also surface relevant figures
attn.pdf palm2.pdf scaling-laws.pdf
What does the attention paper say about positional encoding?
Sinusoidal positional encodings allow the model to attend by relative position [1]. The encoding uses sine and cosine functions of varying frequencies [1].
Verify, export, organize

Output you can actually defend.

Every claim links back to a numbered source you can open and verify. The pool is reranked for relevance, then up to 60 sources are fed into the writer for Deep reports. Save sessions to collections, and export to Markdown, BibTeX, or PDF when you're done.

  • Inline numbered citations, reranked by relevance
  • Markdown, BibTeX, and PDF export with citations preserved
  • Collections to organize sessions over time

URBAN HEAT MITIGATION - DRAFT

Cool-roof interventions reduced peak surface temperatures by 4-7°C in Singapore trials [Singapore BCA, 2024].

Combined green-grey strategies outperformed single approaches by 1.8x [Smith et al.].

Markdown
PDF
Collection

What sessions look like

A document, not a thread. Cited, structured, exportable.

Urban Heat Island Mitigation: A Literature Review
14 sources · 1,800 words · 38 seconds

Web research

Thesis Chapter 3: Methodology synthesis
Which papers disagree on sample size? Smith et al. (n=42) vs Liu (n=380) - see §2.1.

Mixed sources + web

Policy briefing - exportable PDF
Reranked pool: 47 sources All 6 claims linked to numbered, verifiable citations.

Verified output

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