Making science radically more accessible
Tek Def is an AI-native platform for scientific literature analysis. We help researchers, universities and R&D teams spend less time searching and more time discovering.
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Our mission
Give every researcher — from independent scientists to global R&D teams — the same superpowers: instant summaries, deep analysis, and citation-grounded reports across any field.
Our approach
Frontier AI, tuned for science. Every output is grounded in real papers with real citations. No black boxes, no hallucinated references.
Born in the lab, shaped by researchers
Tek Def started as a side project between a biotech PhD student drowning in preprints and a former OpenAI engineer looking for a meaningful problem. Three years later, we're a small team of scientists and ML engineers working with universities and R&D groups in more than 40 countries.
We don't believe in gated science. We believe in tools that make the world's research easier to read, reason about, and build on — for everyone who cares about the frontier.
Principles that guide the product
Grounded in evidence
Every claim Tek Def generates points back to a real paper, page and quote. No hallucinated references. Ever.
Privacy for your research
Your uploads, drafts and outputs stay yours. We never use customer data to train models.
Built with scientists
Every workflow is shaped alongside PhD researchers, medical librarians and R&D teams in the field.
Universal access
Credit-based pricing means an independent researcher and a Fortune 500 lab pay the same fair rate.
Who we serve
Trusted across the research ecosystem.
Researchers
Cut months off your literature reviews and stay on top of a moving field.
Universities
Give faculty and students a shared, credit-based AI research toolkit.
Biotech & Pharma
Accelerate discovery with rigorous, citation-grounded analysis.
Startups & R&D
Move from question to insight without hiring a research team.
A short history
2023
First prototypes
A weekend project reading arXiv papers turns into a full-time mission.
2024
Beta with 12 labs
Early partners across biotech, materials and AI safety shape the platform.
2025
Public launch
Tek Def opens to researchers worldwide with credit-based pricing.
2026
2M+ papers indexed
Full-text semantic search across life sciences, physics, CS and engineering.
“Tek Def feels like adding a tireless PhD student to every project. It reads what we can't get to and shows its work every step of the way.”
Dr. Sofia Vargas
Head of R&D · Aurora Biosciences