For physicists who read too much
Prism reads your PDFs, explains the equations, maps the citations, and builds a living knowledge graph you can actually navigate. Stop drowning in literature. Start understanding it.
Ingest a paper →The Problem
It's a feature of how knowledge advances. But the tooling to navigate that density has not kept pace. You open a new preprint, spend forty minutes parsing notation you already know, and miss the one insight that actually matters for your work.
"The underlying physical laws necessary for the mathematical theory of a large part of physics are completely known — the difficulty is only that the exact application leads to equations too complicated to be soluble."— Paul Dirac, 1929
That was 97 years ago. The equations are still complicated. Prism makes them comprehensible.
What Prism Does
Drop any physics preprint. Prism extracts equations, figures, references, and appendices. Know what you're reading before you start reading.
Select any equation. Prism explains its physical meaning, the assumptions baked in, and why the author chose this form over alternatives.
See how papers connect. Who cites whom, which results are foundational, which are contested. Build the map your brain builds over years — in seconds.
Your reading history, annotations, and highlights — searchable. Ask: "Which of my papers discuss time-dependent Hamiltonians?" Get an answer, not a list of filenames.
Prism tracks what you read and surfaces connections you missed. "Based on your recent papers, this new preprint in JMP extends your 2021 results with a time-dependent metric."
Compare two papers side by side. Same problem, different approach? Prism maps the methodological differences so you can decide which to build on.
Why this exists
Science advances by building on what came before. But the literature is a flood. The researchers who can navigate it fastest — who see connections others miss — are the ones who publish first.
Prism is built for that researcher. The one who reads three papers before breakfast. The one who has twelve tabs open and four equations circled in red. The one who needs the machine to keep up.
This is not a chatbot. This is not a summarizer. This is the research companion that knows your corpus, understands the physics, and tells you what matters.
Built for the researcher who works in the dark