Resources
Written guides, not a content programme.
Four pieces explaining the problem Trace is built around. They are written to be useful whether or not you ever use the product, and none of them requires it.
Library
Start here.
Short enough to read in one sitting. Specific enough to act on.
- Guide5 min
What AI-mediated discovery changes for authors
The path from a published paper to a reader has moved. What that means in practice for the person who wrote it.
- Explainer5 min
Why retrieval, citation, and evidence use are different things
Three measurements that get collapsed into one number, and what is lost each time it happens.
- Guide6 min
What makes a title and abstract machine-readable
Concrete, unglamorous properties that make a record easier to match — none of which require writing worse science.
- Explainer5 min
How to read a synthetic stakeholder panel responsibly
What a simulated panel can legitimately tell you, what it cannot, and the specific ways it goes wrong.
No published research yet
These are explanatory guides, not studies. There are no published papers, preprints, or results to cite. See research for the studies that are planned and methodology for how current measurements are produced.