# Elicit Research Agent (Elicit)

Elicit Research Agent is a standalone vertical AI agent from Elicit. A research agent that turns a question into a plan, searches papers, trials and regulatory documents, and returns a cited report. Nearfi's Agent Index rates its autonomy 4/5 (multi-step on its own): after clarifying questions it plans and runs a whole research programme on its own and hands back a cited report; it is not 5 because it runs only when asked, and is not 3 because the user does not approve each step. Status: beta; 0 incident(s) logged.

Source: https://nearfi.co/agents/elicit-research-agent

- Category: Research · vertical · Standalone
- What it does: Elicit says its Research Agent breaks a prompt into a structured plan, asks clarifying questions, then runs it across papers and the wider web, including clinical-trial databases, regulatory documents and product labels. Output can be a comparison table or narrative summary. Pro and above add a systematic-review workflow that screens up to 5,000 papers.
- Limits: Elicit calls the workflows a beta and its claims of evidence-grounded output come from the company; the launch post gives no accuracy figures. Third-party reviewers disagree on its suitability for formal systematic reviews, so outputs need checking against the sources.