FutureHouse Platform

FutureHouse Platform (now branded as Edison Scientific, spun out of the FutureHouse non-profit known for PaperQA) is an agentic research environment aimed at compressing weeks of literature review and data analysis into single runs. Its flagship Kosmos agent autonomously reads papers, writes and executes analysis code, generates hypotheses, and produces a fully cited report; FutureHouse claims a single Kosmos run touches roughly 1,500 papers and 42,000 lines of generated code.

Around Kosmos sit four specialised agents: Literature for citation-aware search across 175M+ papers, trials, and patents; Analysis for experimental data like flow cytometry and RNA-seq; Precedent for novelty checks; and Molecules for chemistry and molecular design. The cookbook documents Python clients and APIs for invoking these agents programmatically, so this is firmly a tool for working scientists and computational biologists rather than a general consumer chatbot. There is a generous free tier for academics, with paid plans for higher rate limits.

The lineage matters: FutureHouse is the team behind PaperQA and PaperQA2, both open source, but the Platform/Edison product itself is a hosted commercial service. Expect tight integration with bio and chemistry workflows, not the generic 'chat with PDFs' experience that dominates this category.