beacon

What problem does it solve? Researchers waste time reinventing existing results or pursuing questions that are already answered. Beacon maps a research field before you commit: what has been done, who did it, where the frontier sits, and where the unclaimed white space is. ## Core Features & Use Cases - Field Mapping: Clusters the literature by approach, school of thought, or tension rather than returning a flat list of links, with seminal papers and SOTA identified first. - Novelty & Prior-Art Checks: Tests whether an idea is genuinely new by surfacing overlapping prior work and reframing the gap that remains open. - Dated, Sourced Synthesis: Separates consensus from active frontier from contested claims, dates every state-of-the-art statement, and marks anything unverifiable as [unverified] instead of fabricating citations. - Use Case: Ask whether contrastive learning for time-series anomaly detection is novel, and receive the 3-4 prior works that already combine them, exactly where they stopped, and the specific angle still unclaimed. ## Quick Start Ask Beacon to survey what has been done on your research topic and identify the state of the art and the open gap.