It is not easy to find sources. The hard part is distinguishing which of the 400 results warrant your hour, and which point there is enough depth to stop reading. Databases truly have their strengths and weaknesses. It is true that databases do provide an abundance of results. Though, in this regard, they fall greatly short of critical thinking and assessment.
So a researcher goes and reads. You get a map of the literature you actually need: what each source claims, how strong the evidence behind it is, where two of them disagree, and which one everybody else keeps citing.
Money Saved: -$0
Time Savings: -7 hours
Notes: This text used to constitute the complete answer, so it now has formatting inconsistencies. “Source” and “Sources” were interchangeable, and references were placed chronologically. ESL articulation had minor impact.
How No-AI Research Assistance Support Independent Learning
Research skill transfers in a way a finished essay never does. Being able to discuss why one person might select one database over another, why that person would select a 2009 article over another as a source, and why the review article you found was a poor starting article, is a search strategy I learned from the person and have continued to use. The sources are also useful, however, the reasoning is the most important part of the strategy.
Where AI falls down on research assistance
Fabricated citations continue to be our biggest problem. A model will provide you with a reference containing potentially real authors, a real journal, and a DOI that resolves to nothing or even a different article. These are easily checked by supervisors, and will undoubtedly erode any faith they may have in you.
What Human Support for No-AI Research Assistance Includes
Since open-ended searching produces nothing usable, a scope is agreed upon first. Structured searches are then undertaken, with a log of the search terms and databases used. What is returned is read and the vast majority discarded. What is retained is summarized, with a reason provided as to why it was retained.
Using No-AI Research Assistance Responsibly in Your Own Work
Everything here supports work you write yourself. Check the sources and compare the summaries to the originals. Cite the paper rather than our note. If there is a discrepancy between our summary and the paper, the paper wins. We’d much rather you find that on your own than hope we’re right.
What research assistance cost
One rate, whatever the format: $10 per 100 words. You are paying for the writer’s time and judgement, so the price scales with the words rather than with a package tier.
Typical research assistance
Words
Writing
Fee (1%)
You pay
Short
500
$50
$0.50
$50.50
Standard
1,000
$100
$1
$101
In-depth
2,000
$200
$2
$202
The writer receives 100% of the writing price. Our 1% fee is added on top of it, and 0.5% is donated to tree planting.
Full pricing breakdown.
No-AI Research Assistance Academic Support FAQs
Ask on the contact page and a person will answer, usually the same working day. For a live order, reply to your confirmation email and it reaches whoever is handling it.
Ask on the contact page and a person will answer, usually the same working day. For a live order, reply to your confirmation email and it reaches whoever is handling it.
Researchers work from what’s available, including open access versions and preprints. We explicitly tell you what to download when a paper is behind a paywall but is accessible through your institution. We do not use unlicensed copies or share files that we are not authorized to distribute.
Yes, (and) moreover. When a search only returns supporting evidence, it is likely badly executed. If the balance of published literature is against your position, this is the stage when you need to hear it, rather than during the viva.
Completely. Copyright transfers to you on delivery, with no attribution requirement and no licence back to us. Nothing written for you is resold, repurposed or republished.
Reviews
What clients say about our research assistance
Reviews from completed, paid orders in this category.
MZMariam ZResearch Associate, Halloway Foundation
Chased down the two sources i couldn’t find
I had hit a wall on two papers behind paywalls. Rather than skipping them or paraphrasing the abstracts, the writer found the accessible preprints, used those, and said so in a note. Small thing. It is the thing that told me a person did this.
Verified orderLiterature reviewsFebruary 2026
RORachel O
Made my gap year sound acceptable
I had tried for two weeks to justify to myself having a “gap year” out of studies, and to explain it in a way that doesn’t sound like I simply wasted my year. I got a revision of my explanation that made my “gap year” the most affirmative selling point of my whole explanation, and my facts did not even change.
Verified orderPersonal statementsFebruary 2026
ARArjun RHead of Content, Meadowbank Learning
Year 7 pacing was off
Knowledge of the subject was excellent. The timings, however, were not. Three activities that would easily take fifty minutes were allotted thirty minutes time, which is something all teachers would notice. It was fixed after I mentioned it. Everything else, particularly the differentiation notes, saved our team a lot of time.