A private research assistant

Every source, read in full. Every claim, tested against your argument.

Scolora is built for scholars with a thesis to defend. It deep-reads your draft and your library, hands down verdicts with quotes and page numbers, and writes everything into an Obsidian vault you own.

What it does

Six things, end to end — no other tool does all of them.

Golden document

Your thesis becomes the anchor

Upload your own draft, chapter, or paper. Scolora reads it into a structured argument model — claims, themes, and what they depend on — that everything else is measured against.

Deep reading

Every paper, read end to end

Not skimmed. Each source is read page by page into a spine: its core argument, tensions, contradictions, key concepts, and evidence.

Stress-testing

Verdicts with receipts

For any paper: does it support, contradict, or complicate each of your claims — answered with verbatim quotes and page numbers, from the whole document.

Search, three ways

Find it however you think

Boolean keyword search with highlighted hits, concept search by meaning, and an external search that finds and imports open-access papers.

The Librarian

Research that runs without you

Between sessions it surfaces blind spots, tensions, and lateral connections — and keeps revising its own understanding of your corpus, so its insight compounds.

Your vault

Notes you keep for good

Reading notes, anchors, findings, and the Librarian’s mind are written to an Obsidian vault that belongs to you — plain files, yours to keep.

How it works

From a pile of PDFs to a defended argument.

01

Connect your Claude

Link your own Claude subscription or API key. Your account runs on your connection — nothing shared, nothing pooled.

02

Add your golden document

Your draft is deep-read into an argument model over multiple passes. You confirm the anchors — it stays your argument.

03

Build your library

Upload PDFs or import open-access papers. Each one is read in full and indexed, page by page.

04

Read the verdicts

Stress-tests, findings, and background research land as cited notes in your vault — ready to write from.

Why Scolora

Generic tools summarise what a paper says. Scolora knows what you are saying.

Drop your library in, point it at your draft, and ask: where do I keep writing? You get a grounded, cited answer — inside notes you keep.

The test Scolora is built to pass

It holds a validated model of your argument and measures every new reading against it — not against a generic summary.

It gives page-level, quoted evidence with a verdict — supports, contradicts, complicates — drawn from the whole document, not the first hit.

Its research compounds. The Librarian revisits your corpus on its own and surfaces what you haven’t noticed, rather than answering only what you ask.

It outputs into files you own, in your own Obsidian conventions — your notes, your vault, kept for good.

Privacy

Your own Claude

Reasoning runs on the Claude subscription or API key you connect — under your terms with Anthropic, not ours.

Isolated accounts

Your corpus, argument model, and notes live in your account alone. No shared workspace, no pooled data.

Files you own

Everything Scolora learns is exported to a plain-file Obsidian vault. Leave any time and take all of it with you.