About
Why Symmathy exists
The world's medical literature doubles every few years. No single clinician, researcher, or AI model can read it all — and the parts that contradict, confirm, or quietly extend each other are scattered across dozens of databases in dozens of languages.
Symmathy is an attempt to put that literature in one place, with citations clinicians can actually verify, and to surface what one paper alone could never show.
The name comes from symmathesy — a term coined by Nora Bateson from the Greek syn (together) and mathesi (learning) — meaning learning together through mutual, living interaction. It's the spirit we want for evidence-based medicine: clinicians and researchers learning from each other across studies, borders, and time.
What we are
A federated search and analysis tool over PubMed, Europe PMC, Cochrane, ClinicalTrials.gov, J-STAGE, LILACS, HAL, DOAJ, OpenAlex, and CrossRef — with AI summarization that always cites the page it came from.
What we are not
A medical device. A diagnosis tool. A substitute for clinical judgment. Read the disclaimer.
What we believe
Every AI-generated claim should be traceable to a primary source. Hallucinations are a design failure, not an acceptable trade-off. See our methodology.
Who we are
Symmathy is built by a small group of clinicians, researchers, and engineers committed to evidence-grounded medicine. We're keeping the team anonymous for now to keep attention on the tool, not the founders.
The name
"Symmathesy" is a word coined by anthropologist and systems thinker Nora Bateson, from the Greek syn (together) and mathesi (learning) — learning together, mutually, through living interaction. We borrowed the spirit of the word for what evidence-based medicine should be at its best: clinicians and researchers learning from each other, across studies, across borders, across time. Symmathy is our attempt to make that easier.
Get in touch
Questions, partnership ideas, found a hallucination, want to contribute a source? Email connect@symmathy.org.