Epistemic Preflight helps early-career researchers position their work clearly, surface reviewer risks, and identify synthesis opportunities — before submission.
Built for Assistant Professors and early-career PIs working at the edge of their field.
You don't worry about whether your work is good. You worry about:
Most rejections aren't about correctness. They're about positioning, responsibility, and framing. And there's no good way to test that before peer review.
Epistemic Preflight is a pre-review analysis tool for research papers.
You upload your draft. You select a few neighboring papers. The system shows you — structurally — how your work will be read.
Not opinions. Not writing suggestions. Epistemic structure.
A clear breakdown of: your core claims, which are foundational vs downstream, where you're making implicit assumptions. You see your paper the way a careful reviewer does.
We compare your claims against relevant literature and show: where you genuinely overlap, where you directly conflict, where you're orthogonal (novel but unconnected). This answers the question reviewers always ask silently: "How does this actually differ from X?"
A short, actionable report highlighting: claims most likely to be challenged, where you may be over-claiming, framing vulnerabilities, likely points of misunderstanding. This is pre-mortem peer review.
If your work sits between frameworks, we surface: possible synthesis framings, boundary reframings that reduce hostility, ways to subsume disagreement instead of escalating it. This is especially valuable for interdisciplinary or theory-building work.
Epistemic Preflight doesn't tell you what to believe. It shows you where responsibility and disagreement actually live.
On the tenure clock, the cost of one bad cycle is enormous.
Epistemic Preflight helps you: reduce surprise rejections, choose which disagreements are worth owning, make your contribution legible, publish with confidence, not guesswork.
This is epistemic risk reduction.
Everything is traceable. Nothing is hidden behind "AI said so."
If your work lives at boundaries, this tool was built for you.
Individual researcher: $50/month or $500/year
Lab / group access coming soon
Cancel anytime. Your work remains yours.
Epistemic Preflight helps you see where your paper stands — and where it might fail — before peer review decides for you.
Upload a Paper for Preflight Analysis