Flowing

Positions itself as a writing assistant for academics that works from your own uploaded papers rather than the open web. The distinction matters: most AI writing tools pull from a generic corpus and hallucinate citations freely. Flowing, in theory, keeps you anchored to sources you have already vetted. That is a sensible constraint for anyone writing a literature review or a paper section that needs to cite real, specific work. The category is getting crowded — Elicit, Consensus, and several others are attacking academic research workflows — and the description here is thin enough that it is hard to know what the actual differentiator is beyond the framing. The upload-your-own-library angle is promising if the retrieval is actually precise. The reservation is that without more detail on how it handles edge cases like paraphrasing or cross-paper synthesis, it is hard to call it a step above a RAG wrapper on your Zotero library. -> Best for: ML researcher or technical PM writing papers or grant proposals