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Four questions researchers ask in a normal week.

Staying current, building a reading list, verifying a claim, mapping people. Each one below ran through Valency Bond™ for real; the answers, numbers, and citations are what came back.

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Job one

Stay current without reading 116 abstracts

It’s Monday. Ask in plain words what happened while you were away; Bond searches the week’s new work, including preprints indexed within hours of submission.

What you asked

One question, typed into the assistant you already use. No query syntax, no database picking.

What you walk away with

This week’s papers — 116 matched “diffusion model” by title in the last seven days — with the two standout theory results on top, each with a resolvable arXiv link. One was submitted the day before this query ran, and it was already indexed.

Job two

Start the reading list you don’t have yet

A new project starts with the literature. Semantic search reaches past keywords to the ideas underneath, ranks by citations, and hands back BibTeX your reference manager takes as-is.

What you asked

A topic in your own words, plus “give me BibTeX”.

What you walk away with

A citation-ranked starting list — the seminal paper (1,003 citations), a modern treatment, and lecture notes — exported as ready-to-use BibTeX entries.

Job three

Check whether a result is still standing

Before you cite it, build on it, or review it: follow the citation graph forward from the original paper and see what a decade of later work did with it.

What you asked

Name the result the way you remember it. Bond finds the paper, then walks its forward citations.

What you walk away with

The original 2015 paper, its 1,415 citing papers, and the most influential descendants ranked by their own citation counts.

Job four

Know who you’re talking to on Thursday

Profile a researcher before you meet them — from the record, not their own bio — and see who they actually work with.

What you asked

A name. Bond resolves it through ORCID, so you get the right person, not a same-name collision.

What you walk away with

Career numbers from the live record and a ranked collaborator map — who they publish with, and how often. The full version of this is a Valency Story: a complete dossier generated from the published record.

The same record, as a full dossier

Point the same tools at one researcher and you get a Valency Story — a complete research dossier. The excerpt below is quoted verbatim from a live one.

stories.valency.io · August 2026

Alexandru Lupsasca

“67 works, 1,822 citations, h-index 21, and a proposed space mission built around the ring you predicted.”

“Your work takes the Kerr metric apart and hands the pieces back as things an instrument can measure.”

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Generated entirely from the published record

Every claim in a Story traces to a tool result over the corpus: papers, citations, coauthors, field trends. What the record can’t support, the dossier doesn’t say.

It works the same in your field

The examples stay in one field so you can follow the thread. Papers indexed across the corpus in the last 30 days, by title keyword:

1,063

microplastics

586

CRISPR

567

perovskite

77

coral reef

53

sleep memory

49

quantum error correction

Before you ask

What does it cost?

Nothing. Bond is free for researchers, academics, and non-profits.

Where do the answers come from?

Trusted sources including arXiv, bioRxiv, medRxiv, PubMed, PsyArXiv, SocArXiv, EarthArXiv, and more, updated every few hours. Every answer arrives with resolvable citations.

Do I have to change how I work?

No. Bond plugs into the assistant you already use — Claude, ChatGPT, Gemini, or any MCP-compatible tool — in under three minutes.

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