Friendly team, but the tool feels half-baked
The support team at Paperguide is kind and quick to respond—definitely a plus. But the platform itself just doesn’t deliver yet. It only works for very simple, narrowly defined queries. Anything more layered or analytical ends up with unsatisfying or irrelevant results.
Natural language queries fall flat, and file uploads are heavily restricted, which really limits the usefulness for in-depth academic work. Even the filters for things like citation count or journal rankings don’t seem to improve the quality of the output in any transparent way.
The team says they’re working on a “deep research reports” feature, which sounds promising. Hopefully that update makes this more than just a fancy keyword search. For now, it’s not ready for serious research in humanities
Mallik_Paperguide
Apr 24, 2025Hi. Sorry we could not meet your expectations and thank you for your valuable feedback. As I mentioned, due to the inherent nature of building a research specific product built on top of generic LLMs, to avoid hallucinations and also to focus the response to avoid sources outside research realm, some calls have to be taken on the design and hence complete natural language interaction is not possible. It is a trade-off especially as the features are designed to focus on specific use cases. We take your feedback regarding the quality of response and the need for improving filters. Regarding the quality of responses, we definitely have scope for improvement and our team is working on it and Deep Research reports are going to be a significant jump with its option to build your query in multi-step process.