Turn your research into a knowledge graph you can question.
Scientio reads your papers, notes and sources, then builds a connected map of what they say — people, places, ideas and events, with the dates and the uncertainty intact. Ask it questions in plain English and follow every answer back to the document it came from.
No credit card required. Works in your browser, and on the Windows desktop with Scientio Academic.
Notes tell you what you wrote. A knowledge graph tells you what it means.
Most tools store your documents and hope search will do the rest. Scientio reads them, extracts the things they are about, and links those things together, so your sources become a structure you can explore, query and reason over.
Ingest anything
Upload PDFs and Markdown, paste a web page, or import a RIS reference list. Scientio extracts the content, indexes it and cross‑references it automatically.
Ask in plain English
The AI chat answers from your own knowledge base, not from the open web, and every answer can be traced back to the source passage it came from.
See the connections
Explore an interactive graph of your knowledge, edit it directly, and use graph reasoning to surface links you would never have found by reading alone.
Publish in one click
Turn any knowledge base into a public, read‑only website with its own chat, so colleagues, students or reviewers can interrogate your work.
The desktop workbench for serious research.
Scientio Academic is our Windows desktop application, built for researchers, historians, archivists and analysts who need more than a note taker. It uses the same account and the same knowledge bases as the web app, and adds the tools that scholarly work demands.
Time that admits doubt
Dates in research are rarely exact. Scientio Academic records fuzzy times — “around 1348”, “some time before the treaty”, BCE dates — and lets you filter and reason over the graph as it changes through time.
Place and lineage
Geotag people, finds and events and view them on a map, then follow the lineage of any item to see exactly what it came from and what depends on it.
Sources, not screenshots
Read PDFs alongside the graph, import citations from RIS, and capture handwritten notes with on‑device ink and handwriting recognition.
Open by design
Markdown that stays compatible with Obsidian and Logseq, and a Model Context Protocol (MCP) client so your knowledge base can be driven by the AI tools you already use.
Scientio Academic is included with every Scientio subscription and free trial. Ask our team for access and release details.
From a folder of PDFs to a knowledge base you can question, in minutes.
Create a knowledge base
Name it, describe it, and choose whether it stays private or becomes a public site.
Add your sources
Drop in PDFs, Markdown, web pages or references. Scientio extracts, indexes and links them.
Explore and correct
Chat with your sources, walk the graph, and edit nodes and links wherever you know better.
Share the result
Publish a read‑only site your readers can question, or keep working in the desktop app.
Two minutes is enough.
Watch a knowledge graph — and an interrogatable website — being built from a single PDF.
Prefer to read? Browse our gallery of published knowledge bases and ask them questions yourself.
Start building your knowledge graph today.
Thirty days free, no credit card, and your knowledge stays yours.
Why are we called Scientio? The Latin for knowledge is Scientia. Our founder, who has held this domain for many years, didn't want the feminine ending, so chose Scientio — bad Latin, as his old Latin master would wince to hear, but it has the right ring to it.