Talk to it. Let others talk to it. Connect with peers. Be discovered. Your papers become a living, queryable presence — at a QR code scan.
scholarrag.com · Early access 2026
Sebastian Wahl's Scholar[RAG], deployed at scholarrag.com/s/sebastian — built for ICCC 2026. Editorial layout, narrative, chatbot, papers, talk video, downloadable assets.
Controlled semantic collisions for emergent computational creativity. Validated empirically on cross-domain conceptual blending tasks.
Try the chatbot live. Scan the QR. See how a poster becomes a presence.
Not because the work is bad. Because there is no translation layer between science and the world. Your papers exist as LaTeX PDFs that 99% of people can't read. Your poster sessions last 4 hours. Each visitor gets 2 minutes — and forgets everything.
Scholar[RAG] is that translation layer. Your research, finally alive — queryable, explainable, shareable at a QR code scan.
Not just a chatbot. A living infrastructure that makes your research more visible, more connected, more discoverable — without you producing extra content.
Same papers, same chatbot, same intelligence layer. But two different audiences: the world that discovers you, and you when you work.
Toggle the audience. Watch the same idea become a different experience — without you writing a single extra word.
↑ Toggle the audience. Same source paper, same chatbot — the voice adapts.
Everything a researcher needs — shipped progressively, no feature creep, no overpromise.
We'll bootstrap Scholar[RAG]s for the most iconic researchers of our time — built from their public work, with opt-out at any time. The web finally gets a way to talk to science itself.
→ For active researchers : Public Scholars become Claim Profile candidates — recognize your Scholar[RAG], claim it, upgrade to owner.
We're not trying to replace Google Scholar or ResearchGate. We're filling the gap they leave wide open: your research, conversational, cross-collidable.
| Scholar[RAG] | NotebookLM | ResearchGate | Semantic Scholar | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Chatbot trained on your papers | ✓ | ✓ | × | × |
| Public researcher page | ✓ | × | ✓ | ✓ |
| QR code for conference posters | ✓ | × | × | × |
| Multi-tone vulgarization | ✓ | × | × | × |
| Cross-RAG between researchers | ✓ V4 | × | × | × |
| EU hosted & RGPD-compliant | ✓ | × | partial | × |
| Safe for working papers (unpublished) | ✓ | unclear | ✓ | × |
| No training on your data | ✓ guaranteed | opt-out | unclear | no data |
| Private mode (Research Assistant) | ✓ | ✓ | × | × |
| 1-click communication kit | ✓ V2.5 | podcast only | × | × |
Sign in with your .edu (or any email). Upload. Customize. Live in under 30 minutes.
For researchers who want their work to travel — and their thinking to compound.
"A paper published is not a paper read. A paper read is not a paper understood."— Scholar[RAG] · Researcher Mission
Too much research dies buried in PDFs no one reads. Most academic papers are never cited — let alone read. And the researcher can't even query their own body of work, let alone make it speak to anyone outside the lab.
Scholar[RAG] gives your corpus a voice. Query your own work. Build on it faster. Let journalists, collaborators, and the curious public reach your research directly — in their language, not yours.
Your work compounds over time. Every paper feeds the next query. Your expertise becomes findable, queryable, alive — long after the conference is over.
No, ever. Your papers, your notes, your private corpus stay yours. We use the LLMs as retrieval engines — they never see your raw data for training purposes. Privacy-first by design, not as a checkbox.
Yes, at any time. Full export of your data first (Markdown + PDFs + chat history), then a single click deletes everything from our infrastructure within 24h. RGPD-compliant by construction.
The MVP and core features (page + chatbot + QR codes + multi-tone) will have a generous free tier for independent researchers. Advanced features (Research Intelligence, Collider, Career Pro) will be paid tiers. Exact pricing announced near launch — we want it accessible.
Yes.You control exactly what's in your corpus AND what your chatbot can answer from. Mark a paper as "private" → it informs your chatbot's voice but never surfaces in responses. Safe for working papers, embargoed papers OK, half-finished drafts OK.
Yes. Sign in with your .edu, .ac.uk, .fr, or any institutional email. No need to create a new identity. The optional email is for independent researchers without an institutional address.
Always. Full export to Markdown (your bio, autobiography, notes), original PDFs (your uploaded papers), and JSON (your chatbot history). No lock-in. Take your data with you whenever you want.
Never. The chatbot has two modes: Public (visitors) responds only from sources you marked public. Private (you in the admin) responds from your full corpus including notes. Two modes, one corpus, controlled by you.
Scholar[RAG] launches with a limited cohort of early researchers. Join the list — we'll reach out personally.