About Wonders
We’re building the calmer, more honest way to do research — where the AI makes you sharper, and every claim traces back to where it came from.
Why we built it
I did my MSc thesis not that long ago. I loved it — the digging, the connecting, the slow click of an argument finally coming together.
But I watched the people around me drown. Brilliant people, stuck — not for a lack of ideas, but because the work was scattered across a dozen apps, none of them built for how they actually thought. The tools were as overwhelming as the process itself.
So my co-founder Robin and I started Wonders: the workspace we wish we’d had. One place to find your sources, lay them out where you can see them, and write — with every claim traceable right back to where it came from. Not AI that does the thinking for you. AI that makes you a sharper researcher.
We’re a small, independent team, and we answer to the researchers who use it. If you do research at any level, I’d love for you to try it — and to tell me what you think.
Joe Pacal — Co-founder & CEO, Wonders
Most AI races to hand you the answer. We’d rather hand you the understanding — the kind that survives a viva, a peer review, and your own second thoughts.
We’re independent and post-revenue — no outside investors steering us toward an exit, no roadmap set by the next funding round.
Being small and focused isn’t a weakness here — it’s why our incentives line up with yours. We answer first to the researchers who use Wonders, we move fast when you tell us something’s wrong, and when you have a question you reach the people who build the product. Often, that’s a founder.
24,000+ researchers, 550M+ academic sources, 16+ languages — deployed at National University, under evaluation at KU Leuven and Antwerp, with researchers at Cambridge, UC Berkeley, and Imperial on the platform.
Accelerators we’ve joined · tools we build with
Built to run light — a green web rating of A — and with the UN Sustainable Development Goals in mind.
Navigate a first literature review from topic to final draft, with guidance at every step.
Cut the admin, find the real gaps, and keep a career’s worth of sources in one place.
Guided workflows, 16+ languages, and flexible assistive tools — research shouldn’t reward one way of thinking.
Evidence-grade answers — papers, patents, and technical reports — without relearning academia.
Try Wonders free for 14 days — and tell us what you think. We read every word.
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