I. The Premise
Your papers are your profile.
The reading layer for science — built by the communities you trust to read it with you.
II. Manifesto
Every researcher is drowning in a literature that is growing faster than any human can read. The answer is not more search.
The answer is a system that already knows what you are looking for.
III. The Problem
The deluge is not a discovery problem.
It is a relevance problem.
PubMed asks you to maintain keyword searches. Journal alerts flood the inbox. Google Scholar suggests tangents. Slack channels move too fast. Twitter is dead. You miss what matters, or you spend half an hour every morning paying the triage tax.
Your publication record already encodes what you care about. Curator reads it directly — no setup, no keywords to maintain, no filters to tune. The signal you've spent a career building becomes your feed.
IV. The Method
Four layers. Then it just runs.
Labs within labs. Journal Clubs across labs. A community of communities — the way science actually works.
- L1
Your profile, embedded
The system reads what you’ve already written. Three papers is enough to start. No keyword lists, no alerts to maintain.
- L2
A feed, every morning
Each day, a ranked digest — graded for relevance, freshness, methodological rigor, and the company a paper keeps.
- L3
Your network, lifting what you’d miss
When a colleague you trust reacts to a paper, it lifts in your feed. Discovery becomes social again — without the noise.
- L4
The Hive: what your community makes of it
Beyond ranking, interpretation. Your lab, your collaborators, your peers — the communities you trust — surface what each paper means. A daily briefing, in plain English, tells you why it matters to your work specifically.
V. Side by side
What changes
Existing tools
The old shape of discovery.
- No reading of what experts in your field actually think — citations measure attention, not understanding.
- You define the keywords; you maintain the alerts.
- Static results. Same query, same hits.
- No social layer.
- Quality signal stops at the journal masthead.
- Raw abstracts. No context, no synthesis.
Curator
The new shape of discovery.
- The Hive synthesizes what experts in your community make of each paper.
- Your publications define your interests automatically.
- A living feed, ranked daily for you.
- Colleagues recommend papers directly into your feed.
- AI grades novelty and methodology — beyond impact factor.
- A daily briefing tells you why each paper matters.
From the cohort
“Curator is the reading-companion every lab has wanted for fifteen years. We forward links to each other inside it now.”
Director — UCSF Immunology Lab
VI. Where Curator Lives
Curator does not replace journals. It does not replace preprint servers. It does not replace the slow, accreted work of building scientific consensus.
What it replaces is the silence after publication — the gap between a paper landing and the community making sense of it. Citations measure attention. The Hive measures understanding — synthesized, attributed, updating as your community weighs in.
Stop triaging.
Start reading.
Built for researchers who want signal, not noise. Free while we are in private beta.