# Axy

Axy is concept mapping for science. We map research at the concept level —
not citations, but ideas. Researchers upload their papers and a knowledge
graph emerges, so a lab's understanding becomes something the next person
can actually inherit.

Axy is in private beta, onboarding research cohorts of 50 at a time.

## Key pages

- [Home](https://axy-app.com/): product overview, value proposition, and early-access application form for the private beta.
- [FAQ](https://axy-app.com/faq): answers to common questions — how concept mapping works, how Axy differs from a reference manager, and what happens to a lab's knowledge graph when a researcher leaves.
- [Privacy Policy](https://axy-app.com/privacy): how Axy handles waitlist data, analytics, and session replay.

## The problem Axy solves

Three structural problems waste years of research time in every lab:

- **The Literature Abyss** — A new research area can mean 40,000+ papers. Citation-chasing rarely surfaces the foundational work; it surfaces what everyone else happened to cite.
- **The Duplicated Work** — Multiple researchers in the same department often review the same literature independently. The mental models they build live in their heads and retire with them.
- **The Two-Year Tax** — A new postdoc spends roughly two years rebuilding a mental model of the field that already exists in the outgoing postdoc's head.

## How Axy answers them

- **See the whole mountain first** — Axy maps a field at the concept level, surfacing clusters, bridges, and gaps within hours of upload. No more six-month orientations.
- **Minds retire. Maps don't** — A researcher's mental model becomes a living, forkable graph visible to the whole lab. Institutional knowledge stops walking out the door.
- **Skip the two-year hazing** — A new postdoc forks a senior researcher's graph and inherits a decade of reading on day one. Tacit knowledge becomes explicit and navigable.

The common thread: knowledge that used to be private — locked in one mind, one lab, one generation of researchers — becomes cumulative. Axy doesn't just help labs read faster. It helps knowledge compound.

## About

Built by Axy (info@axy-app.com). Public-facing site is a static Astro app
hosted on Vercel.

## Key facts

- Category: Research tools, scientific knowledge management, concept mapping
- Audience: Individual researchers, research labs, academic institutions, open-source scientific communities
- Status: Private beta — onboarding research groups in cohorts of 50
- Founded: 2026