🔬 Research

Multi-source clinical research synthesis across academic databases, web, and internal knowledge. Used by the AI assistant to answer “what’s the current evidence for X” without leaving Synalux.

🧠 What It Does

• Academic discovery — parallel search across three free, high-signal sources:
  • PubMed (NCBI) — clinical papers, medical evidence
  • ERIC (Dept. of Education) — ABA, education research, special needs literature
  • Semantic Scholar — AI-powered academic TLDRs, cross-discipline papers
• Web fallback — DuckDuckGo (free, no API key) when academic sources return insufficient results.
• Web search (non-research) — Firecrawl via POST /api/v1/web-search for general queries (tier-gated, separate from research).
• Synthesis — Gemini 2.5 Flash with thinking enabled combines all sources into a cited clinical summary.
• Knowledge search — internal Prism MCP knowledge base (workspace-scoped) — see synalux-private for the full Prism architecture.

🩺 Clinical Use Cases

• “What’s the current evidence base for FCT versus DRO in self-injurious behavior?”
• “Summarize recent papers on telehealth ABA outcomes for ages 3-7.”
• “What does the latest BACB Ethics Code say about consent for video recording?”

The synthesis output is cited inline so a clinician can verify each claim against its source.

🏗️ Architecture

• lib/services/research/googleSearch.ts — discovery service (PubMed + ERIC + Semantic Scholar + DuckDuckGo fallback).
• lib/services/research/synthesis.ts — Gemini 2.5 Flash synthesizer (Thinking mode enabled).
• POST /api/v1/research/search — execute a research query; streams results.

💳 Plans

Available on Advanced+. Per-call cost surfaces in the workspace usage dashboard.