What sets Refine apart
| Capability | Refine | General-purpose AI | Other AI peer review tools |
|---|---|---|---|
| Tuned for top-tier journals | Yes | No | No |
| Long-range consistency | Across full manuscript | No (focus degrades) | No (section-by-section) |
| Depth of analysis | High (hundreds of LLM calls) | Low | Low – Medium |
| Depth of verification | Highest | Low | Low – Medium |
| Best frontier model for each task | Auto-selected per stage | Single model | No |
| Enterprise-grade security | Yes — company-level | Enterprise tier only | No — providers only |
| Model training | No — zero-retention | Yes (by default) | Mixed — often leaks |
Some paid peer-review tools train on your data. Open-source tools frequently leak documents to third-party providers by default.
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Depth, not triage
Most AI tools give surface-level feedback. Refine analyzes methodology, argumentation quality, and statistical validity. The kind of feedback that changes whether your paper gets accepted, not just how it reads. And if any part of the analysis fails, Refine handles it — retries, reroutes, or flags it — instead of silently skipping sections the way a single prompt would.
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We review your figures too
Refine doesn't skip the images. Charts, diagrams, tables, and figures are analyzed for clarity, accuracy, and consistency with the text.
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Built for every discipline
Not a generic model with a prompt. Refine's pipeline is continuously tuned for specific domains — medicine, computer science, law, economics — and research document types. The feedback is discipline-aware, not one-size-fits-all.
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Benchmarks, not claims
Independent benchmarks are underway. We're building transparent, reproducible evaluations because trust in this space should be earned with evidence, not marketing.
Security that's actually audited
Your manuscript is sensitive unpublished work. We treat it that way.
Zero data retention LLMs
Your manuscript is never stored by the AI models processing it and is never used for training.
SOC2 compliance, not just SOC2 infrastructure
Many tools claim "SOC2" because their cloud provider is certified. That says nothing about the application itself. Real SOC2 compliance audits the company's own processes:
- —Do logs include parts of your document?
- —Who has access to the production system?
- —Are API keys properly stored and rotated, even in backups?
SOC2 and ISO 27001 certification in progress.
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"Refine is amazing!"
Refine is amazing! I've used it on projects ranging from the least to the most technical parts of philosophy, and in every case it's found errors I had missed, from small issues at the sentence or paragraph level to errors in keeping track of cases in longer proofs, all the way to mistakes in big arguments or how I cited the literature. The gain over publicly available tools is very significant. I plan to run every paper I write through it at least once before submitting.
Harvey Lederman
Professor of Philosophy
UT Austin
"would have taken an expert many hours to complete"
The depth of the reading performed by Refine was impressive, and resulted in the identification of subtle issues. This would have taken an expert many hours to complete, even when working with ChatGPT Pro.
Omer Tamuz
Professor of Economics and Mathematics
Caltech