Otio

Your AI Research Assistant for Smarter Research

Otio is a comprehensive AI-powered research workspace designed for professionals, academics, and researchers who need to synthesize large volumes of information quickly and accurately. Instead of spending weekends reading through dozens of papers or losing billable hours to document piles, Otio lets you upload hundreds of sources—PDFs, articles, YouTube videos, podcasts, transcripts—and extract key findings, themes, and insights across all of them at once.

Built for Research That Accumulates Over Time

Unlike ChatGPT (which resets between sessions) or NotebookLM (which caps at 50 sources), Otio is a permanent research workspace where your work compounds over weeks and months. Upload 60 papers in January, add 30 client documents in March, and ask questions across all 90 sources in May—everything stays searchable and answerable. Every source you've ever uploaded is indexed and ready to answer questions, with verified citations that trace back to the exact page and passage.

Key Features and Capabilities

• Multi-source synthesis: Upload unlimited PDFs, articles, videos, podcasts, and transcripts; ask questions across all sources simultaneously
• Multiple AI models: Access GPT-4, Claude, Gemini, and other leading models in one workspace
• Verified citations: Every answer includes citations to exact pages and passages—no hallucinated references
• Context-aware chat: Maintain conversation context across sessions without losing your research thread
• AI data visualization: Create charts and visualizations from CSV data
• Dual chat interface: Compare responses from different AI models side-by-side
• OCR and PDF extraction: Extract text from scanned documents and images
• Highlight to ask: Select text and ask follow-up questions instantly
• Workspace organization: Create separate projects to keep different research efforts organized

Who It's For

Trusted by over 200,000 professionals across 74 languages, Otio serves researchers conducting literature reviews, consultants synthesizing client documents, lawyers reviewing discovery materials, analysts extracting data from reports, journalists researching stories, policy professionals analyzing documents, and students writing theses. Whether you're working with 10 sources or 500, Otio transforms information overload into structured synthesis.

Typical Workflows

Researchers upload 60+ papers and extract key findings, methodologies, and contradictions across all sources to start their literature review from a structured synthesis rather than a blank page. Consultants upload meeting transcripts and client briefs to pull themes and create deliverables faster. Lawyers upload case files and depositions to identify key facts and contradictions. Analysts upload data files and reports to extract specific figures and create visualizations without reading every page.

Integrations

Otio integrates with Zotero, Dropbox, OneDrive, and Box to seamlessly import your existing research libraries and documents.

What Differentiates Otio

Otio solves the upstream research problem—getting from information overload to structured understanding—rather than just helping you write. It's designed for research workflows that span weeks and months, not one-off questions. With no session resets, no file caps, and permanent search across your entire research archive, Otio becomes your comprehensive research workspace that grows with your projects.