Read your library.
Write what holds up.

Shubo is an AI research workspace. Drop in many sources — PDFs, papers, web pages, audio, video — and Shubo indexes them all. Ask in chat and an agent finds the right source and answers with citations you can verify, then helps you write from any of it. Research you can actually defend — grounded in your real sources, nothing fabricated.

You can bring your existing library straight in — import from Zotero, Mendeley, or BibTeX — and Shubo handles the reference-manager basics: organize your sources, cite, and export to BibTeX in any style. What it adds on top is the difference: it reads your papers, answers across them with citations you can verify, and drafts from them, all grounded in your sources.

ChatGPT answers from its training and the open web, and can invent citations, so you can't fully trust it for real research. NotebookLM is closer — it grounds answers in sources you upload — but a notebook at a time, and it doesn't import your reference manager or draft a cited write-up. Shubo is the whole workspace: bring your entire library in from Zotero, Mendeley, or BibTeX, ask across all of it with every answer traced to the exact page and paragraph, then write from it with citations that export in any style. Grounded in your sources, and it won't fabricate — when they don't support something, it tells you.

Yes. Drop your whole library in and Shubo reads and indexes every file, so you can ask across all of them at once and get answers pulled from the exact sources — with citations you can click and verify. It's batch work across your library, not one prompt per PDF.

However you like — you don't have to set much up. Drop files into folders and Shubo indexes everything automatically, so when you ask in chat it finds the relevant source across your whole workspace and answers with citations you can verify.

Yes. Every answer cites the source it came from — for your documents, down to the exact page and paragraph — so you can verify it in one click. Shubo won't fabricate: when the sources don't support something, it tells you instead of inventing an answer.

No. Shubo cites only sources that actually exist in your library — every reference links back to the real paper and the exact passage, so there are no invented authors, titles, or page numbers. When your sources don't answer the question, it says so instead of inventing something that sounds right.

Shubo is built for academic and research work: graduate students, researchers, and analysts doing literature reviews, evidence synthesis, and writing across many papers.

From shūbāo (書包), the Chinese word for a student's bookbag — the thing that carries everything you're studying. We softened it to “Shubo.” That's the idea behind the product: one place that holds all your sources, and the work you build from them.

Shubo is in early access. Join the waitlist at shubo.ai and we'll email you the moment your spot opens. Early members help shape the product before the public launch.