AfricaTells Research Infrastructure

Source-disciplined drafting for dissertations, policy papers & journal articles.

Upload your sources. Select what you need. SemiResearch assembles a prompt from your materials and editable templates, and drafts the section — citing only what you actually gave it.

Workflow

Four steps, one scratchpad.

No background jobs, no surprise charges. You see the cost before any draft runs.

01
Upload sources
PDF, DOCX, or TXT into a project. Text is extracted once, locally — never sent anywhere until you run.
02
Configure the run
Pick output type, genre, and field. See the token/cost estimate before committing.
03
Claude drafts it
Only your provided materials are cited. Gaps in a source's bibliographic data are flagged, never invented.
04
Review & approve
Edit inline, approve, or reject and re-run with adjustments. Every draft stays in your permanent history.
Output types

Built for the structure of real research.

Dissertation chapters
Introductions, literature reviews, methodology, discussion — each as its own reviewable section, with continuity carried across runs.
Policy papers
Evidence-grounded framing for a policymaker audience, with recommendations that trace back to your sources, not generic boilerplate.
Journal articles & abstracts
Publication-register drafting with proper APA citation, plus reference lists built strictly from what you uploaded.
Who it's for

Researchers who need speed without losing rigor.

PhD candidates
Move from a folder of PDFs to a structured chapter draft, with footnotes that are actually traceable to your reading.
Policy researchers
Turn briefings and field notes into a paper a senior official will actually read.
Investigative & analytical journalists
Synthesize interview transcripts and source documents into a rigorous analytical draft.
Access

SemiResearch is a single-user internal tool.

There's no public sign-up — if you have an account, log in below.

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Projects

Upload & Run

Select a project
Choose a project above, or create one from the Home tab.

SemiResearch — Draft Ready

No draft selected
Run a project from the Upload & Run tab, or pick a past run above.

Pipeline

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Docs

Workflow

  • Create a Project per research topic.
  • Upload source materials (.pdf, .docx, .txt) and tag each as source / draft / interview transcript / field notes.
  • In Upload & Run, tick the materials to use, choose output type(s), genre, and field/focus, then click Estimate Cost before running.
  • Click Run. Each output type is a separate Claude call, so a multi-section run processes one section at a time.
  • Review the result in Review Draft. Approve to keep it in permanent history, or Reject & adjust to re-run with changes.
  • Pipeline shows every run across all projects with a running cost total.

Source discipline

  • SemiResearch only cites what's literally present in the materials you uploaded for that run.
  • If a source is missing bibliographic details (author/year/title), the draft flags the gap instead of inventing it.
  • Text extraction happens once, at upload time, and is never re-sent to the API except as part of a run you trigger.

Cost control

  • The only place an Anthropic API call happens is the explicit Run action.
  • Uploading, browsing, and editing prompts are all local, zero-cost operations.
  • Very large combined source selections will show a warning on the estimate before you commit.