Read closely.
Think out loud.
An AI-scaffolded reading tool for academic texts. Highlight what matters, leave notes in the margin, and think through hard passages with a reading coach that asks questions instead of writing your answers.
Highlight & annotate
Select a sentence to mark it as important, confusing, or evidence. Write a margin note. Your annotations persist across sessions.
A coach that asks
An AI reading coach probes for evidence, mechanism, and interpretation. It refuses to summarize or write submission-ready text.
Structured reflection
At the end of each reading, your highlights and comments assemble into a draft reflection note. Edit, finalize, submit — it is yours.
Your library
Two short readings to try, paired analytical and narrative. Both work without an account.
Built for research
Reading Companion is also a measurement instrument: every meaningful action emits a timestamped telemetry event so reading behavior can be analyzed alongside reflection quality. The three conditions (system-initiated, user-initiated, unmediated) operationalize a single construct — Locus of Regulation in AI-Mediated Reading.
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