Metis — The Research Cortex

AI built around researchers. Not a prompt box — a way of working.
Your papers, meetings, ideas, notes and journal — each one linked to the rest.
A research companion that reviews its own work and gets sharper every week.

It's 7:20. You open the dashboard. The morning brief reads:

"Three papers matching your configured topics landed overnight — one directly challenges a working hypothesis in your field. Your literature coverage in methods has grown to 84%. I've cross-referenced all three with your knowledge graph, connected them to your meeting note from Tuesday, and flagged four passages for your review. One tracked analysis is approaching a key deadline."

No prompt. No setup. Your research, connected — every morning.

🟢 Actively developed.  Latest: fact-checking that actually checks · focus surfaces you add yourself · specialists that remember your standing decisions.  See what's new ↓

Editions:  Metis — Base shell  ·  Metis_PH — Public Health & Epidemiology  ·  Metis_BM — Biomedical Sciences (coming soon)  ·  Metis_CL — Clinical Sciences (coming soon)

🧪 Want to see the background layer in action? Try the Public Health edition.

Metis_PH is a fully worked edition that ships with a pre-loaded knowledge layer (WHO guidance + epidemiology & methods references). Clone it to test the cited, library-grounded answers immediately — without building a corpus first — then bring the same setup to your own field here.

See it in action

The dashboard at a glance — your projects, tasks, the morning brief and what to focus on, in one calm view.

A tour through Metis — the system tab and every part of your Research Cortex: today, work, knowledge, meetings, ideas, learning and the control room.

The silent layer — one click on the morning brief opens Claude Desktop, primed with your work, ready to brainstorm.

Metis reviews its own work and proposes its own improvements — the self-improvement loop, in plan mode.

Why researchers trust it

• 📚 It cites your own sources. Knowledge answers are anchored in your indexed library, with document- and page-level citations — not the model's guesses. Your library grounds the answer; it doesn't fence it in. Metis still brings in recent literature, guidelines and wider knowledge where they matter, and tells you which is which — so anything worth citing that you don't have yet becomes a paper you can add.
• 🔗 It connects everything you know. Every paper, meeting transcript, idea, note, journal entry and task is linked to the rest of your work. The grant you write today surfaces a method paper from last year and a meeting note from March — you never go looking; Metis brings it to you.
• 🧠 It routes to the right expert. Ask in plain language, and Metis hands the work to the right one of 30+ specialist skills — Librarian, Methods Coach, Writing Partner, Meeting Memory, Epidemiologist, Course Builder, and more.
• 🔁 It improves itself. After every task it logs what worked and what fell short; each week it drafts improvements to its own behaviour and waits for your approval. Most MCP servers are static — Metis gets sharper the longer you use it.
• 🚫 It refuses to invent. Ask about something that isn't in your library and Metis tells you so, instead of fabricating a plausible-sounding answer. (This grounding behaviour is covered by an automated test.)
• 🔒 It stays on your machine. Local embeddings, local database, local files. Your papers, patient-adjacent data, and unpublished work never leave your computer.

🎥 See it in action above — the dashboard, a tour of the tabs, the silent layer into Claude Desktop, and Metis improving its own work.

Easiest way to try it: install Claude Desktop and run the 3-step setup — a demo workspace is pre-loaded, so you start with something to explore instead of a blank screen.

Who is this for?

What is Metis?

Metis is a research companion built on top of Claude that keeps your data on your own machine. It gives every AI conversation a persistent memory of your domain, your papers, your projects, and your working history. It routes your requests to the right specialist, does the work, records the result, and returns a plain answer — without requiring you to prompt or configure anything.

The app runs on your machine and your data stays there — your documents, notes, embeddings and memory never leave it. The reasoning is powered by Claude, so the text you choose to send for analysis goes to the Anthropic API; everything else is local. (See Data Protection for exactly what leaves your machine, and when.)

The short version: imagine an AI that already knew your field and your literature, connected every paper, meeting, idea and note you've captured, sent each request to the right specialist — and got sharper about your work, and about itself, the longer you used it. That's Metis.

How it works

Metis is not a separate app you log into. It's a small service that runs quietly in the background and connects Claude to your research — your papers, your memory, your projects.