AI for research writing that takes citations seriously.
Dissertations, journal papers, conference submissions. River drafts in your discipline's voice, tracks citations, and keeps your unpublished work private.
Free to start · No credit card required
Generic AI tools hallucinate citations, miss methodology nuance, and treat your dissertation like a marketing blog post. River was built for the people writing 80,000-word documents with real footnotes.
Upload your sources, your prior drafts, and your style guide. River drafts literature reviews that cite real papers, methods sections in your discipline's conventions, and discussions that engage with the actual findings.
What you get
Citation-aware drafting
Connects to your reference library and cites real papers — no hallucinated authors, no fake DOIs.
Discipline-specific voice
Matches the conventions of your field — IMRAD for science, argumentation for humanities, APA / MLA / Chicago throughout.
Long-form context
Handles full dissertations, 100k+ words, with the AI keeping continuity across chapters.
Methods section helper
Drafts methods sections that match your protocol, sample size, and analytical approach.
Private and on-prem ready
Your unpublished science is not training data. On-prem GalBox option for labs that cannot use SaaS.
Co-author collaboration
Advisor / committee feedback inside the document with comments, suggestions, and version history.
From outline to defence
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Set up a dissertation Space
Chapters, references, data, methodology, and committee feedback all live in one Space.
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Draft with citation-aware AI
Ask for a lit review, a methods paragraph, a discussion of a specific finding. River cites real sources from your library.
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Iterate with your committee
Real-time multiplayer editing, threaded comments, version history. Defence-ready output.
Frequently asked questions
Will it hallucinate citations?
Not when you give it your reference library. River cites from your Zotero / Mendeley / BibTeX library, not from imagined sources. If a fact has no source, River flags it instead of making one up.
Does it know my discipline?
Yes. River is trained on writing conventions across the natural sciences, social sciences, humanities, and clinical research. It adapts to your discipline's voice and structure.
Can I keep my dissertation private?
Yes. River does not train on your work and encrypts everything in transit and at rest. For labs with strict IRB or grant requirements, on-prem deployment keeps the entire stack on hardware you own.
Does it work for a journal paper vs a dissertation?
Both. Templates exist for IMRAD journal papers, dissertation chapters, conference submissions, and theses across most major fields.