Make finding, understanding and sharing research feel as natural as scrolling.
Research tools are good at helping you find a paper you already know you need. PaperMigo is for the papers you didn't know to look for.
Good research deserves readers beyond its own niche.
Many of the best ideas in engineering and medicine come from noticing work in a neighbouring field: a material from energy storage that solves a problem in neural implants, or a robot design that suggests a new surgical tool. Today, that kind of discovery depends on luck.
At the same time, the most useful thing a researcher can read about a paper is often another researcher's honest opinion of it. That judgment exists in lab meetings and group chats, but almost never in public.
PaperMigo brings these together: a personal feed that surfaces papers you would otherwise miss, explanations that make them quick to judge, and a place for researchers to share what they really think.
Lines we are drawing early.
- Present AI summaries as if the authors wrote them.
- Fill in experimental details that were not in the source.
- Republish full papers or figures we do not have the right to use.
- Sell placement in recommendations, or disguise sponsored posts.
- Optimise for endless scrolling. The goal is fewer, better papers.
Built in small, testable steps.
Our measure of success is not sign-ups. It is whether researchers open PaperMigo on their own and find papers they would not otherwise have read.
Personal reading tool Now
A working prototype with real papers from open databases, AI explanations, likes and saves. Used daily by the founder to test whether the feed is worth opening.
Invite-only beta Next
10–20 PhD students, postdocs and faculty. Daily refreshed feeds, researcher notes and profiles. We will track what people read, save and share, and which papers bring them back.
Grow what works Later
Depending on what testers value most: smarter recommendations, richer researcher discussion, visual and video explainers, and more fields.
We are inviting our first 20 researchers.
PhD students, postdocs and faculty in engineering and the life sciences who want a better way to keep up with new papers.