Personal AI Research Mentor
Intelligence System helping you grow as a researcher
You want to learn to do real research. Like any skill, it can be learned from a mentor. AI Research Mentor provides that guidance: it asks the right questions, challenges your thinking, and helps you design rigorous experiments. It adapts to where you are, so you have mentor-level expertise whenever you need it.
This is the first source-available research guidance system designed by scientists specifically for student researchers.
The vision behind Personal AI Research Mentor is set out in the paper below, which presents the system as the first implementation of Human Development Technology: educational software where the teaching methodology itself is open to inspection and anyone can reproduce the conditions to study the system independently.
See It in Action
The Question Workshop, start to finish: one word becomes a research question you can actually work on.
What the Software Does
The mentor does its reading, searching and checking in the background, to work out where you are and what to ask you next. The research itself stays yours to do.
A mentor you can talk to
An open conversation about whatever you are working on right now. It remembers your project between sessions, so you pick up where you left off instead of explaining yourself again.
Under the hood
Pick the scientist whose method you want
Your choice shifts the mentor's priorities, its approach, and the tone of the conversation. Work in the style of Newton, Galileo, Leonardo da Vinci, Mendeleev, Pasteur, Darwin, Ada Lovelace, Sofia Kovalevskaya, Ibn al-Haytham, Aryabhata or Zhang Heng.
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The Question Workshop
Nine different routes from a vague interest to a research question you can actually work on. Most return a ranked set of candidates to choose between; the hypothesis route instead walks you through designing one, stage by stage.
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Retracted work as a source of questions
Papers get withdrawn, and the gaps they leave reopen. One workshop route works from the Retraction Watch record: what failed, what it did to the field, and which questions are live again because of it.
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Grounded in the research literature
The mentor can reach the published literature while you talk, so its questions come from the real state of your field rather than from model recall. Finding and reading your own sources stays your work.
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It understands what you upload
Papers, documents, data files, photographs of your setup, charts, handwritten notes. The mentor reads what you give it, so it knows what you are actually working with and guides you from there.
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It works through the statistics with you
Upload your measurements and the mentor runs the statistics automatically, then puts the result in front of you pitched to your level and built to teach the reasoning, so the analysis stays yours.
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It adapts to you
It re-reads where you are on every message, not once at the start: structure where you need it, hints as you find your feet, hard questions where you are strong. Vocabulary matches your age, and it speaks your language.
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It scores eight research skills
Critical reading, data analysis, experimental design, scientific writing, critical thinking, time management, collaboration, and research maturity. Each is scored from the evidence in your own project, so you can see which way it is trending.
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A guided path to sharing results
When the work is done: help with the writing, finding the right venue and checking it is not predatory, and taking the work further into talks, media or science art. It is mentorship, not ghostwriting.
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We never see your work, unless you want to
Your conversations and your files stay in a folder on your own machine. No accounts, no telemetry, no server of ours: the Society of Teen Scientists and Authentic Research Partners collect nothing, and we see your work only if you explicitly send it to us. Whichever AI model you run it on does see your conversation.
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While the software is built to be intuitive, issues may come up. We recommend applying for SoTS membership, which includes email support with a reply within one week.