jamesbrady
Joined 19 years ago
Joined 19 years ago
Elicit is an AI research assistant that uses language models to help researchers figure out what’s true and make better decisions. We scaled to >$6MM annual revenue and 450k MAU fast. We're hiring for multiple roles and are primarily interested in people with early-stage company experience, who are comfortable in high-agency, fast-paced teams.
Reasons you might want to join Elicit:
1. We have been thinking about how to apply AI for high-stakes knowledge work since even before GPT-1. Elicit was spun-out from Ought (https://ought.org/) which was an applied research lab.
2. If you're concerned about the potential downsides and risks of super-powerful AI: so are we! Happy to explain more of this story on a call, or you can also check e.g. https://ought.org/updates/2022-04-06-process for a primer.
3. We like spending time with each other, and have get-togethers every 6 weeks, but we're flexible on location.
Reasons you might not want to join Elicit:
1. We've found a level of product market fit (as evidenced by metrics) but we've not proven everything out yet. If you want predictability, Elicit is not for you.
2. We aim to hire people who thrive in low-bureaucracy environments, and let them loose. If you need structure, lots of support, close mentorship, or tightly-defined work assignments, Elicit is not for you.
A selection of open roles—more on the site:
• Machine learning engineer: https://elicit.com/careers?ashby_jid=913a03d5-bd26-4c64-8346...
• Our first data engineer: https://elicit.com/careers?ashby_jid=4617f630-f971-4716-b753...
• Front-end engineer: https://elicit.com/careers?ashby_jid=b5e218b8-8730-4254-b026...
Elicit is an AI research assistant that uses language models to help researchers figure out what’s true and make better decisions. We scaled to >$6MM annual revenue and 450k MAU fast. We're hiring for multiple roles and are primarily interested in people with early-stage company experience, who are comfortable in high-agency, fast-paced teams.
Reasons you might want to join Elicit:
1. We have been thinking about how to apply AI for high-stakes knowledge work since even before GPT-1. Elicit was spun-out from Ought (https://ought.org/) which was an applied research lab.
2. If you're concerned about the potential downsides and risks of super-powerful AI: so are we! Happy to explain more of this story on a call, or you can also check e.g. https://ought.org/updates/2022-04-06-process for a primer.
3. We like spending time with each other, and have get-togethers every 6 weeks, but we're flexible on location.
Reasons you might not want to join Elicit:
1. We've found a level of product market fit (as evidenced by metrics) but we've not proven everything out yet. If you want predictability, Elicit is not for you.
2. We aim to hire people who thrive in low-bureaucracy environments, and let them loose. If you need structure, lots of support, close mentorship, or tightly-defined work assignments, Elicit is not for you.
A selection of open roles—more on the site:
• Machine learning engineer: https://elicit.com/careers?ashby_jid=913a03d5-bd26-4c64-8346...
• Our first data engineer: https://elicit.com/careers?ashby_jid=4617f630-f971-4716-b753...
• Front-end engineer: https://elicit.com/careers?ashby_jid=b5e218b8-8730-4254-b026...
Elicit is an AI research assistant that uses language models to help researchers figure out what’s true and make better decisions. We scaled to >$5MM annual revenue and 450k MAU fast. We're hiring for multiple roles and are primarily interested in people with early-stage company experience, who are comfortable in high-agency, fast-paced teams.
Reasons you might want to join Elicit:
1. We have been thinking about how to apply AI for high-stakes knowledge work since even before GPT-1. Elicit was spun-out from Ought (https://ought.org/) which was an applied research lab.
2. If you're concerned about the potential downsides and risks of super-powerful AI: so are we! Happy to explain more of this story on a call, or you can also check e.g. https://ought.org/updates/2022-04-06-process for a primer.
3. We like spending time with each other, and have get-togethers every 6 weeks, but we're flexible on location.
Reasons you might not want to join Elicit:
1. We've found a level of product market fit (as evidenced by metrics) but we've not proven everything out yet. If you want predictability, Elicit is not for you.
2. We aim to hire people who thrive in low-bureaucracy environments, and let them loose. If you need structure, lots of support, close mentorship, or tightly-defined work assignments, Elicit is not for you.
A selection of open roles—more on the site:
• Front-end engineer: https://elicit.com/careers?ashby_jid=b5e218b8-8730-4254-b026...
• Machine learning engineer: https://elicit.com/careers?ashby_jid=913a03d5-bd26-4c64-8346...
• Data engineer: https://elicit.com/careers?ashby_jid=4617f630-f971-4716-b753...
Elicit is an AI research assistant that uses language models to help researchers figure out what’s true and make better decisions. We've scaled to >$3MM annual revenue and 400k MAU with our small team. We're hiring for multiple roles and are primarily interested in people with early-stage company experience, who are comfortable in high-agency, fast-paced teams.
Reasons you might want to join Elicit:
1. We have been thinking about how to apply AI for high-stakes knowledge work since even before GPT-1. Elicit was spun-out from Ought (https://ought.org/) which was more of a research lab.
2. If you're concerned about the potential downsides and risks of super-powerful AI: so are we! Happy to explain more of this story on a call, or you can also check e.g. https://ought.org/updates/2022-04-06-process for a primer.
3. We like spending time with each other, and have get-togethers every 6 weeks, but we're flexible on location.
Reasons you might not want to join Elicit:
1. We've found a level of product market fit (as evidenced by metrics) but we've not proven everything out yet. If you want predictability, Elicit is not for you.
2. We aim to hire people who thrive in low-bureaucracy environments, and let them loose. If you need structure, lots of support, close mentorship, or tightly-defined work assignments, Elicit is not for you.
3. We just raised a Series A, so if you want existential dread (and concomitant founding-team-upside), Elicit is not for you.
A selection of open roles—more on the site:
• Front-end engineer: https://elicit.com/careers?ashby_jid=b5e218b8-8730-4254-b026...
• Machine learning engineer: https://elicit.com/careers?ashby_jid=913a03d5-bd26-4c64-8346...
• Data engineer: https://elicit.com/careers?ashby_jid=4617f630-f971-4716-b753...
Elicit is an AI research assistant that uses language models to help researchers figure out what’s true and make better decisions. We've scaled to >$3MM annual revenue and 400k MAU with our small team. We're hiring for multiple roles and are primarily interested in people with early-stage company experience, who are comfortable in high-agency, fast-paced teams.
Reasons you might want to join Elicit:
1. We have been thinking about how to apply AI for high-stakes knowledge work since even before GPT-1. Elicit was spun-out from Ought (https://ought.org/) which was more of a research lab.
2. If you're concerned about the potential downsides and risks of super-powerful AI: so are we! Happy to explain more of this story on a call, or you can also check e.g. https://ought.org/updates/2022-04-06-process for a primer.
3. We like spending time with each other, and have get-togethers every 6 weeks, but we're flexible on location.
Reasons you might not want to join Elicit:
1. We've found a level of product market fit (as evidenced by metrics) but we've not proven everything out yet. If you want predictability, Elicit is not for you.
2. We aim to hire people who thrive in low-bureaucracy environments, and let them loose. If you need structure, lots of support, close mentorship, or tightly-defined work assignments, Elicit is not for you.
A selection of open roles—more on the site:
• Front-end engineer: https://elicit.com/careers?ashby_jid=b5e218b8-8730-4254-b026...
• Machine learning engineer: https://elicit.com/careers?ashby_jid=913a03d5-bd26-4c64-8346...
• Data engineer: https://elicit.com/careers?ashby_jid=4617f630-f971-4716-b753...
Elicit is an AI research assistant that uses language models to help researchers figure out what’s true and make better decisions. We've scaled to >$3MM annual revenue and 400k MAU with our small team. We're hiring for multiple roles and are primarily interested in people with early-stage company experience, who are comfortable in high-agency, fast-paced teams.
Reasons you might want to join Elicit:
1. We have been thinking about how to apply AI for high-stakes knowledge work since even before GPT-1. Elicit was spun-out from Ought (https://ought.org/) which was more of a research lab.
2. If you're concerned about the potential downsides and risks of super-powerful AI: so are we! Happy to explain more of this story on a call, or you can also check e.g. https://ought.org/updates/2022-04-06-process for a primer.
3. We like spending time with each other, and have get-togethers every 6 weeks, but we're flexible on location.
Reasons you might not want to join Elicit:
1. We've found a level of product market fit (as evidenced by metrics) but we've not proven everything out yet. If you want predictability, Elicit is not for you.
2. We aim to hire people who thrive in low-bureaucracy environments, and let them loose. If you need structure, lots of support, close mentorship, or tightly-defined work assignments, Elicit is not for you.
A selection of open roles—more on the site:
• Front-end engineer: https://elicit.com/careers?ashby_jid=b5e218b8-8730-4254-b026...
• Machine learning engineer: https://elicit.com/careers?ashby_jid=913a03d5-bd26-4c64-8346...
• Data engineer: https://elicit.com/careers?ashby_jid=4617f630-f971-4716-b753...
Elicit is an AI research assistant that uses language models to help researchers figure out what’s true and make better decisions. We've scaled to >$2MM annual revenue and 400k MAU with our small team. We're hiring for multiple roles and are primarily interested in people with early-stage company experience, who are comfortable in high-agency, fast-paced teams.
Front-end engineer: https://elicit.com/careers?ashby_jid=b5e218b8-8730-4254-b026...
Machine learning engineer: https://elicit.com/careers?ashby_jid=913a03d5-bd26-4c64-8346...
Data engineer: https://elicit.com/careers?ashby_jid=4617f630-f971-4716-b753...
Elicit is automating high-quality reasoning so that we can help the world make more breakthroughs in every domain: from climate change to the gut microbiome to longevity and economic policy.
We’ve scaled to over 200,000 monthly users purely by word of mouth and recently crossed $1.5MM in annual revenue, 7 months after launching subscriptions.
We’re now building out our software engineering team, and hiring across several technical roles.
If you'd like to know more about some of the work we're doing you could check: - A recent blog post current UX work: https://blog.elicit.com/living-documents-ai-ux/ - Me talking about our "AI engineer" role on a podcast a couple of weeks ago: https://www.latent.space/p/hiring
Check out the careers page linked above, or email me at [email protected]
Our main focus is a little different to SciSummary actually. We're focussed on understanding researchers broader workflows, and providing a research assistant (i.e. rather than a particular narrow tool for summarisation or search).
The workflows we're most excited about at the moment are literature and systematic reviews: we think we can make these orders of magnitude faster and higher quality.
We do use LLMs, but the secret sauce is an approach we call Factored Cognition which we wrote about here: https://ought.org/research/factored-cognition
(Elicit the company and app was spun out from Ought the research lab).
We do joke internally about the homophone (in fact, IIRC we did a little joke on our CEO by rebranding for his birthday in 2022) but I'm sorry to report that we're all careful, ethical, and well-behaved people :(
We're glad you're enjoying it.
This is a good point! (Hopefully) obviously, if we knew a particular claim was fishy, we wouldn't make it in the app in the first place.
However, we do do a couple of things which go towards addressing your concern:
1. We can be more or less confident in the answers we're giving in the app, and if that confidence dips below a threshold we mark that particular cell in the results table with a red warning icon which encourages caution and user verification. This confidence level isn't perfectly calibrated, of course, but we are trying to engender a healthy, active, wariness in our users so that they don't take Elicit results as gospel. 2. We provide sources for all of the claims made in the app. You can see these by clicking on any cell in the results table. We encourage users to check—or at least spot-check—the results which they are updating on. This verification is generally much faster than doing the generation of the answer in the first place.
Elicit is building AI for science. We scaled to >$7MM annual revenue and 450k MAU fast. We're hiring for multiple roles and are primarily interested in people with early-stage company experience, who are comfortable in high-agency, fast-paced teams.
Reasons you might want to join Elicit:
1. We have been thinking about how to apply AI for high-stakes knowledge work since even before GPT-1. Elicit was spun-out from Ought (https://ought.org/) which was an applied research lab.
2. If you're concerned about the potential downsides and risks of super-powerful AI: so are we! Happy to explain more of this story on a call, or you can also check e.g. https://ought.org/updates/2022-04-06-process for a primer.
3. We like spending time with each other, and have get-togethers every 6 weeks, but we're flexible on location.
Reasons you might not want to join Elicit:
1. We've found a level of product market fit (as evidenced by metrics) but we've not proven everything out yet. If you want predictability, Elicit is not for you.
2. We aim to hire people who thrive in low-bureaucracy environments, and let them loose. If you need structure, lots of support, close mentorship, or tightly-defined work assignments, Elicit is not for you.
A selection of open roles—more on the site:
• ML engineer: https://elicit.com/careers/913a03d5-bd26-4c64-8346-21a029f34...
• Founding data engineer: https://elicit.com/careers/8cc10be7-30ca-469a-a567-dfcdb271f...
• Senior software engineer: https://elicit.com/careers/aa99e2e9-5b15-4cd3-ac9d-9c9177ff6...