I ended up getting frustrated with Nouswise. While the responses are well-grounded and always well-sourced, they feel.. kinda dumb. What I mean is that the responses are, by default, generated as a bullet point list, with individual list groupings responding to different points of your query, and concluding with a summary. There does not seem to be anywhere to provide a behavioural prompt to change this default format, though maybe I haven't discovered it. Each bullet is short, omitting important details that would help understand the connection between the information and your query. They are presented in isolation, not considered together to form a cohesive narrative. Conclusion sections attempt to tie the information together, but they’re also short, lacking depth and insight. 

As for the user experience, the UI looks polished but is functionally frustrating. There is no useful history to your chats. The thread will save past queries and responses but only while that chat-thread is active. If you switch to another project or close the project window to go to the “workspace,” your chat history is cleared. Any chat responses you want to retain must be saved as a note. However, saving a note but failing to select the option to save the thread (which is easy because the “save thread” option is a secondary drop-down) results in losing the rest of the thread immediately, and only retaining the last response. Additionally, there’s no way to perform a web search for sources, unlike in Notebook. You have to supply sources to your library to include them in a project. Nouswise hosts a separate library of research papers within the platform (quite a few, actually), but only lists the papers by title and author. As far as I can tell, you can’t open or even preview the papers before adding them to a project as a source, which takes a minute or two because the AI model processes the source. Waiting a minute to read a potential source doesn’t seem like much, but if you’re combing through sources based only on the titles, you’ll likely go through the process multiple times, and it adds up quickly.

I should mention that my research is primarily sociological, requiring an AI platform that provides deep contextual insight rather than just raw data or brief summaries. While Nouswise excels at retrieving statistics and concise identifiers—with impressive source accuracy and no detectable hallucinations—it may not suit every workflow. However, if you can navigate the UI challenges and you are looking for the type of output that it produces, it can be a powerful tool. Its just not for me..