What is Jenni?
Jenni is an AI academic writing assistant for students and researchers that helps with research, writing, and citation management. Unlike general chatbots, Jenni builds arguments from user-selected sources, links every AI-suggested claim to the exact page in a PDF, and supports 10,000+ citation styles. It works best for graduate students, PhD candidates, and academic teams who need source-grounded writing and traceable citations.
What are the features of Jenni?
- Traceable Citations: Every AI-suggested sentence links to the exact page and paragraph in your source PDF, letting you verify claims in one click rather than hunting through references.
- Source-Grounded Autocomplete: AI writing suggestions draw exclusively from your uploaded PDFs or imported Zotero/Mendeley collections, not from generic training data, keeping your literature review focused.
- Library Management: Upload PDFs, import from Zotero or Mendeley, or search 200M+ academic papers across Semantic Scholar, PubMed, arXiv, and CrossRef without leaving the editor.
- AI Chat Across Documents: Ask questions about your full library, compare findings across papers, or find which source discusses a specific concept, with responses tied to cited sources.
- Reviews Analysis: Checks every claim against your sources and flags issues across six categories including unsupported, overstated, and contradicted claims before peer review.
What are the use cases of Jenni?
- Graduate student writing a literature review with verified citations from their uploaded PDF library.
- Research team collaborating on a co-authored paper with inline comments, suggestions, and version history.
- PhD candidate managing and querying a library of 50+ sources to compare methods or findings across papers.
- Academic preparing a manuscript for journal submission with auto-formatted citations in APA 7th, Chicago, or IEEE.
How to use Jenni?
- Import your sources by dragging in PDFs, connecting Zotero or Mendeley, or searching the academic index.
- Open a new document and start writing; AI autocomplete suggests sentences grounded in your selected library.
- Click any citation to trace it back to the exact page and paragraph in the original PDF.
- Use AI Chat with @ to mention specific PDFs or / to access saved prompts for targeted questions.
