How GrokStudies works

People who know a topic well gather real scientific studies into a project. Grok writes a summary of each study that someone with a high-school education can understand, plus keywords and flags. Anyone can read the finished collection for free — no account needed.

Who uses it

What each role can do

Role Browse
approved studies
Search
databases
Add studies
to review
Approve /
reject studies
Manage users
& roles
Set search
terms
Add
Questions
Public (Reader) X
Curator X X X
Approver X X X X
Project Admin X X X X X X X

Readers (the public)

Browse studies, browse by keyword, read Q&A built from approved papers, play a crossword puzzle, based on a selected project, while you're waiting for Grok to summarize the studies. The public only sees studies that have been approved. No log in is required. The public can read any approved project's approved (by that project's project admin or approver role user) studies.

Project admin

The Project admin performs all the administration for the project including adding and approving a project, adding users, defining their roles, adding search terms for the project, and is able to search databases (PubMed, PLOS, OpenAlex, EuropePMC, bioRxiv and YouTube) for studies (or videos). They also add Questions which Grok will answer in the form of a brief, viewable by the public in Questions in navbar. A SHOP button will be displayed when affiliate link(s) are added in Manage Projects. This SHOP button is then displayed in all pages.

Curator

The Curator can search for new studies (ones they haven't seen before) from various databases and select the ones they want to add to their project based on customizable search terms. The selected studies are then summarized (both professional and high school level education), keywords are generated and flags for each study (default and customizable) are applied by Grok.

Approver

The Approver can do everything the Curator can do but in addition can view the summarized studies and Approves the ones they want to share with the public and which should be deleted.

Billing

There is no charge for Browsing the Studies, either by title or by keyword. The only charge is for the Grok tokens used when processing the studies with Grok. Grok charges about $1.50 to process 100 studies. This site uses Stripe for the monthly billing but the daily and historical usage is displayed in a Grok Credits screen visible to project admin.

Auto-Fetch

There is also an automated fetching process, both manual (with dryruns) and scheduled. This also uses similarly priced number of Grok tokens, about $1.50 for 100 studies.

How a collection is built

1. Name the topic → 2. Find studies → 3. Approve what fits → 4. The public can read them
Each project is its own collection. The public picks a project and reads only what that team approved. Need a click-by-click for a page you’re on? Use Help in the header. Questions? Contact.

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