Plan my stackROLE DOSSIER / SEARCH × READ × ANALYZE × CITE
See plan cost, the Lean route, and the human gate for every stage.
PURCHASE SIZE / ROLE TEAM
1 operatorPer-member plans scale with the team; account, site, usage, and one-time plans stay fixed until checkout.
SEARCH × READ × ANALYZE × CITE
Academic researchers discover literature, review a bounded corpus, write the analysis, preserve Office compatibility, check citations, and archive the submission.
MEMBERSHIP ROUTE / 5
PLAN DELTA / PROFESSIONAL → LEAN
| Tool | Professional | Decision | Lean | Monthly delta |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Microsoft 365 | Personal$8.33/mo | Remove | Not included | Save $8.33 |
| Adobe Acrobat | Acrobat Pro$19.99/mo | Change plan | Acrobat Standard$14.99/mo | Save $5 |
| Perplexity | Pro$16.67/mo | Change plan | Free$0/mo | Save $16.67 |
| ChatGPT | Plus$20/mo | Keep plan | Plus$20/mo | No change |
| Dropbox | Plus$9.99/mo | Change plan | Basic$0/mo | Save $9.99 |
| LibreOffice | Not included | Add | Community$0/mo | No change |
FRONTIER WORKFLOW / HUMAN IN LOOP
Question, scope, inclusion criteria, exclusions, methods, claim limits, and a preregistered evidence table.
The researcher approves the method and records changes instead of optimizing toward a desired answer.
Candidate literature, primary-source links, duplicates, confidence notes, and a retrieval queue.
Open the papers, verify metadata, and reject summaries without accessible supporting evidence.
OCR-corrected files, annotations, source-linked extracts, contradiction matrix, and versioned notes.
Check quotations against page locations and protect licensed or sensitive materials.
Draft, tables, figures, limitations, citation audit, revision history, slides, and archived submission files.
The author owns interpretation, citations, authorship disclosure, and the final submission.
RESEARCH SIGNALS / OFFICIAL SOURCES
Perplexity Research can perform iterative search and assemble a shareable report, while the researcher remains responsible for opening and evaluating the cited sources.
perplexity.ai02Acrobat PDF Spaces can combine PDFs, links, and text, return cited answers, and support role-specific assistants across the collection.
adobe.com03Microsoft positions Copilot as reasoning support for research and data analysis across its productivity applications, which increases the need for source and formula review.
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