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Valency is the foundation for the new era of exploration and innovation. 450+ million papers and preprints, indexed as new work appears.

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In use by researchers at major research, academic, and R&D organizations

Modern AI reasoning systems are a powerful new accelerant for science. But LLMs were trained on yesterday's science, not today's.

The fix is not a bigger model. It is a live loop between research and the tools that reason over it. Today, Valency Bond™ gives any LLM semantic access to every public preprint, within hours of posting.

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Science has always been a team sport. The instruments got bigger. Photo: NASA/Chris Gunn

Roughly 35 million researchers* worldwide who need infrastructure grounded in real, current research, not hallucinations.

(*) How many people in the world do research and development? Glob Policy. 2023 Feb 8;14(2):270–287. doi: 10.1111/1758-5899.13182 (Table 6)

“Valency has transformed how I approach literature discovery, compressing what used to take days of manual searching into a few targeted queries taking minutes. Having cross-corpus semantic search and citation graph tools in a single interface has meaningfully accelerated the pace at which I can move from a research question to a well-grounded reading list to scientific discovery.”
Dr. Peter Nugent, Senior Scientist, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory

How Valency works

No new model to trust and no data to wrangle. Valency sits between the world's research and the tools you already use, and does three things well.

  1. Index the record

    We continuously ingest papers and preprints from trusted sources and structure them for machines: full text, metadata, versions, and the citation graph. New work becomes searchable within hours, not months.

  2. Ground the answer

    Every result ties back to a real source you can open and cite. Semantic search finds work by meaning, and the citation graph lets you trace an idea in both directions.

  3. Reason with confidence

    Connect Bond to your LLM. You and your agents build on the shoulders of giants with receipts, not on a plausible guess.

Built for the way researchers work

Every way you already search

Ask in plain language, by author, by field, or by similarity. The same grounded corpus answers all of them.

One connector, 38 tools

Search, author intelligence, trends, filtering, and export, all behind a single MCP endpoint.

Built with researchers, not just for them

Designed alongside scientists at leading national laboratories, and shaped by the people who use it every day.

Create New Knowledge on the Shoulders of Giants. Confidently.

Valency powers complex Q&A across hundreds of millions of papers and preprints, for researchers and the LLMs they rely on.

Connect Bond to your LLM and supercharge research

Bond speaks the model context protocol, so it plugs into the assistants and agents researchers already use. Work in Claude, ChatGPT, Gemini, or your own harness, and the answer arrives grounded and ready to cite.

For researchers

  • Search and discover across the entire research corpus, including papers published hours ago, not months.
  • Connected to trusted data sources and grounded in reality, so every claim comes with a source you can open.
  • Free for researchers, academics, and non-profits.

For institutions and R&D teams

Bring your private research together with global scientific knowledge, without any of it leaving your secure environment. Give every team a single grounded view of the literature, and give your agents a source of truth they can cite.

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What researchers use Valency for

From the first literature scan to the final citation check, Valency fits the work researchers already do.

Literature reviews, in a fraction of the time

Go from a research question to a well-grounded reading list in minutes. Semantic search surfaces the work that matters, and the citation graph shows what it built on and what came after.

Grant and proposal prep

Map the state of the art, find the gap you are filling, and back every claim with a real, current citation. No more discovering a key paper the week after you submit.

Staying current in a fast field

Track publication and keyword momentum, and catch new preprints within hours of posting. When the frontier moves overnight, you move with it.

Finding the right collaborators

Profile researchers, map co-author networks, and surface the people working next to your problem, including the ones you have not met yet.

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In use where research happens.

Valency is already in the hands of researchers in academia, government labs, and industry, and it was built alongside them.

  1. 450+ million research papers and preprints at your fingertips. Growing daily.

  2. Token-efficient and blazingly fast. Your LLMs will love it.

  3. Designed in partnership with researchers at leading national laboratories.

  4. Updated every few hours with the latest published research.

  5. Trusted by early users in academia, government labs, and industry.

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