Built for the work that survives peer review.

I'm Professor Solaa.
Bring me your research.

I run a research department built to help you investigate, analyze, and communicate serious research. You bring me the question. I know how the department works.

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Sources Ingested
CrossrefMachine learning in clinical settings
arXivAttention mechanisms for NLP tasks
PubMedDigital accessibility in higher education
DOAJLiterature review automation methods
JSTORGenerative AI policy in universities
SSRNSystematic review methodology advances
InstitutionalOpen access research trends 2025
500M+ works indexed
The Department
Dr. Nonso Dr. Okiemute Dr. Tega Dr. Doubra Dr. Adeyemi Dr. Aliya Dr. Ofili
447M+ tokens 506 sessions 7 colleagues
Structured Document
[1] Smith, J. (2025). DOI: 10.1234/...
[2] Chen, L. et al. (2024). DOI: 10...
APA · MLA · Chicago · IEEE · 2,600+ styles

You don't need to manage my department.

You shouldn't have to decide which specialist to call, what order the work should happen in, or whether the research is ready for the next stage. I handle that.

I know when literature needs to be established. I know when a research plan is required. I know when your data is ready for analysis. I know when the evidence is sufficient to begin writing. You talk to me. I coordinate the department.

Your research question My department Your research artifacts

Let me introduce you to my department.

You are the Principal Investigator. I am Professor Solaa, and I run the research department that works with you. Each of my colleagues has a defined responsibility, and I know when their work is needed.

YOU

Principal Investigator

You set the research direction, make the scholarly judgments, and decide what questions matter. You lead the research; I bring the department together around it.

Professor Solaa

Research Director

You don't have to decide who should work on what, what needs to happen next, or which work must wait. That's my job.

Dr. Nonso

Literature & Evidence

He establishes the literature and evidence base your research needs.

Dr. Okiemute

Research Planning

She turns the research question and evidence base into a coherent research plan.

Dr. Tega

Quantitative Analysis

He works with your quantitative data and establishes what the numbers actually show.

Dr. Doubra

Qualitative & Thematic Analysis

She examines qualitative and documentary evidence and develops defensible themes from it.

Dr. Adeyemi

Academic Diagrams

He turns research concepts, methods, and findings into academic diagrams and visual explanations.

Dr. Ofili

Researcher Guidance

He helps you write the research yourself, with the evidence, structure, and guidance you need.

Dr. Aliya

Academic Writing

She helps turn established research into formal academic writing when you want drafting assistance.

I don't let the department skip steps.

Good research has dependencies. I won't ask a specialist to begin before the work that should inform it exists.

Literature Dr. Nonso's verified evidence
Planning Dr. Okiemute's research plan
Writing Dr. Aliya drafts · Dr. Ofili guides

Research data → Quantitative analysis

When you give my analyst the data, he can begin without waiting for the rest of the department.

Qualitative corpus → Thematic analysis

Documentary or interview evidence takes its own path — coded and analysed on its own timeline.

I won't ask my planning specialist to build a research plan without the evidence needed to inform it. I won't ask my writing colleagues to build an argument before the research plan exists. At the same time, when you give my analysts the data they need, they can begin their work without waiting unnecessarily for another part of the department.

I know what can happen in parallel — and what must wait.

Let me show you how my department works.

A researcher brought this question to me: Mobile Money Adoption and Financial Inclusion Among Nigerian Market Women. Here's what my department produced — every artifact is clickable.

Step 1 · Research Brief
Professor Solaa · Research Director

The Research Brief

Mobile Money Adoption and Financial Inclusion Among Nigerian Market Women

mixed methods Thesis

We defined the question, scope and research requirements together — the topic, research focus, rationale, timeframe, and document type locked in before any colleague is engaged. The gate every other artifact descends from.

Step 2 · Literature Base
Dr. Nonso · Literature Discovery

The Literature Base

Verified sources for the study

191 verified source pulled in 4 synthesis sections

Dr. Nonso established the relevant scholarly evidence: 191 verified sources discovered across the 500M+ corpus, organized into thematic clusters, key debates, and a gap analysis — mapped to the study's research questions.

Step 3 · Research Plan
Dr. Okiemute · Research Plan

The Research Plan

A mixed-methods Table of Contents

16 sections 19,050 words budgeted thesis structure

Dr. Okiemute turned the question and evidence into a structured research plan: a complete Table of Contents with per-section word budgets and methodology-matched structure — every heading grounded in the evidence.

Step 4 · Quantitative Analysis
Dr. Tega · Statistical Analysis

The Quantitative Analysis

The Results — computed from Findex 2024 (open data)

7 figures computed logistic regression Findex 2024 data

Dr. Tega examined the supplied data — computed in a sandbox from the open-access Global Findex 2024 microdata (n = 1,000, weighted). Headline: women lead men on mobile-money ownership — 40.6% vs 25.0% — with the working-women proxy higher still. The results integrate Dr. Doubra's nine themes — one mixed-methods study. Dataset cited on the page so every number can be verified.

Step 5 · Qualitative Analysis
Dr. Doubra · Qualitative Analysis

The Qualitative Analysis

Thematic coding of CBN mobile money policy documents

9 themes coded 31 codes 100% excerpts traceable

Dr. Doubra analyzed the documentary evidence: systematic thematic coding of CBN mobile-money and financial-inclusion policy documents — a codebook, theme map, and verbatim evidence trail for every theme.

Step 6 · Writing Guide
Dr. Ofili · Writing Guidance

The Writing Guide

The write-it-yourself path to the same study

6 chapters guided 13 figures referenced 39 references

Dr. Ofili showed the researcher how to turn the findings into a defensible academic work: second-person guidance for writing the same document yourself — what each chapter should argue, what to cite and where, and how to move between sections. Nothing drafted for you. Every reference real.

Step 7 · Complete Draft
Dr. Aliya · Academic Writing

The Draft

The complete study — every chapter

21,120 words 6 chapters 76 references

Dr. Aliya brought the established research together into formal academic prose: the complete study — every chapter — synthesizing the sources, the numbers, and the themes into one coherent manuscript with an auto-compiled bibliography, all within the planned word budget.

That's what happens when you give me a research question.

I care about where your claims come from.

I don't want a beautiful answer that cannot survive scrutiny. I want to know: where did this claim come from? What evidence supports it? What does the data actually show? What does the evidence not allow us to conclude? That's why my department works with connected research artifacts rather than treating every answer as an isolated conversation.

Literature 191 verified sources
Plan 16 sections · 19,050 words
Analysis 7 figures · 9 themes
Manuscript 21,120 words · 76 references

Research changes. My department keeps up — analyses get rerun, evidence changes, plans evolve, and the artifacts stay connected so you continue from the latest state of the study.

I work for the researcher. I don't replace the researcher.

You decide what is worth investigating. You decide what questions matter. You inspect the evidence. You make the scholarly judgment. Sometimes you'll want my writing colleague to draft a section for you. Sometimes you'll want Dr. Ofili to give you the structure and evidence so that you can write it yourself. That's your choice.

Dr. Ofili
Researcher Guidance
“I want to write it.”

You hold the pen. Dr. Ofili gives you the argument, the structure, and every citation instruction — each pointing to a verified source.

Dr. Aliya
Academic Writing
“Help me draft it.”

You direct. Dr. Aliya turns the established research into formal academic prose — every claim backed by the evidence base.

I will tell you when the evidence isn't enough.

In one of our studies, the available dataset did not contain an occupation variable. So although the research concerned market women, we could not honestly claim that the dataset directly identified them — the appropriate proxy had to be disclosed.

That's not a weakness to hide. That's a limitation the researcher needs to know.

Saved the moment it's found

A source enters your bibliography only when it's returned by a verified academic database — the moment Dr. Nonso finds it. Nothing is ever typed from memory.

Screened at the source

Retracted papers and records without abstracts are filtered out before they can reach your work. What lands in your bibliography has already passed the check.

Rejected if it can't be traced

Before your document reaches you, every citation is matched against the verified library. Anything that isn't there is rejected automatically. Dr. Aliya's drafts — and Dr. Ofili's writing guides — can only cite what Dr. Nonso actually found.

500M+ scholarly works indexed Source verification Retraction screening Citation traceability Reproducible computation Qualitative audit trails 2,600+ citation styles 24 document specifications

The Entire Open Scholarly Record

Solaa indexes over 500 million verified scholarly works - journal articles, books, conference papers, dissertations, and preprints - sourced continuously from Crossref, PubMed, arXiv, DOAJ, institutional repositories, and thousands of other open-access sources.

500M+ Verified Works

Journal articles, books, conference papers, dissertations, and preprints. The entire open scholarly record, continuously indexed.

Single Unified API

One query surface. No fragmented database hopping. Solaa's agents search, filter, and retrieve with precision across the entire corpus.

Our Query Engine

Full analytics across the entire corpus and drill-downs. Runs on our infrastructure.

Twenty-Four Ways to Write

Every document type is a declarative specification: structured sections, word count ranges, citation style, and writing tone. Not prompt-engineered. Defined.
2,600+ CSL citation styles supported. APA, MLA, Chicago, IEEE, Harvard, Nature, and every journal format in between.

Journal Article Thesis Dissertation Undergraduate Research Systematic Review Systematic Mapping Study Literature Review Conference Paper Technical Paper Book Chapter Case Study Research Proposal Policy Brief Technical Report Lab Report Academic Essay Position Paper Book Review Annotated Bibliography Concept Note Abstract Grant Proposal Monograph Seminal Paper

Don't take my word for it.

Researchers have already worked with my department. Here's what they have to say.

NE Nelson Edewor

“I commissioned Solaa to turn my research on Urhobo sculpture and the Ivri corpus into a full lecture series. It came back with a plan — every lecture budgeted, every section grounded in sources I could verify. When the drafts arrived, I checked the references the way I check my own students’ work: they held up. Structure and rigor, together — that is what I used to do by hand.”

Nelson Edewor Professor of Sculpture · Urhobo Art Forms
CO Clement Ogeh

“As a PhD researcher in computer science, I need two things: code that actually runs, and references that actually exist. Solaa ran my analyses in a sandbox and produced figures from real computation — I could rerun them and get the same results. The literature base and methods citations resolved to real papers. It is the only AI tool I have used where I did not have to fact-check the references.”

Clement Ogeh PhD Researcher · Computer Science
JO Joy John

“My advocacy rests on evidence: when I speak about digital accessibility, every claim must trace to a real document. Solaa analysed the policy landscape — from the NCPWD’s work to e-governance accessibility — with every source verifiable. It strengthened my case studies the way a good research assistant would, but faster, and with an audit trail I could defend.”

Joy John PwD Advocate · Accessibility Research

You can ask any AI to help with research.

But research is more than asking an AI for an answer. You need literature. You need a plan. You need evidence. You need analysis. You need interpretation. You need writing. And you need to know how those pieces relate. That's why I built a department. You don't need to assemble the workflow yourself. Just bring me the research.

Any AI

Give it instructions → assemble the workflow yourself.

vs.
Professor Solaa

Give me the research mandate → I run the department.

ChatGPT & Claude
General-purpose AI chat
Fabricates citations. No research methodology. No audit trail.
Every source verified against 500M+ works. Real DOIs you can look up yourself.
Elicit
AI literature search & data extraction
Literature discovery only. Stops before planning, writing, or analysis.
Full pipeline: lit search → planning → writing → analysis → diagrams.
Consensus
AI academic search engine
Search and summarise only. No structured document output.
Synthesises findings into 24 document types with full citation tracing.
Scite
Smart citation classification
Tells you if a citation supports or contradicts. Doesn't build your document.
Builds the entire document around verified citations, not just classifies them.
ResearchRabbit
Citation network visualisation
Discovery and mapping only. No writing, no analysis, no output.
Turns discovered literature into structured, citable research output.
Grammarly
Writing style & grammar assistance
Polishes sentences. Doesn't research, plan, analyse, or verify sources.
Handles methodology, source verification, and structured academic writing.
Jenni & Paperpal
AI writing assistants that draft for you
Write the paper for you — authorship and control leave your hands, and the prose is unverifiable.
Dr. Ofili's writing guide: you write, with the argument, structure, and every citation instruction supplied — the work stays yours.
Turnitin
Plagiarism detection
Catches misconduct after it happens. Doesn't scaffold original research.
Scaffolds original research so the work is yours from the first source.
Overleaf
Collaborative LaTeX editor
Formats your document beautifully. But you still have to write it first.
Produces the content that goes into your editor — planned, drafted, and verified.
Zotero & Mendeley
Reference management
Stores and organises references. Doesn't discover or integrate them into writing.
Discovers, verifies, and weaves references into your document with proper citations.

Solaa doesn't compete with any single tool. It replaces the fragmented workflow that forces you to switch between them. One research department. One conversation. The entire pipeline.

So, what are you researching?

Tell me the question you're trying to answer. I'll take it from there.

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