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Hey Product Hunt community 👋 For over 10 years I've worked across physics, chemistry, and math projects — from redox flow battery electrolytes to problems that had nothing to do with each other on the surface. But every single one had the same missing piece: I needed a research assistant, and I never had one. Not just something to keep my notes organized. Someone who could go out, read the literature before I did, come back with a state-of-the-art report, help me see what's already been tried and what hasn't, and stay with me through the whole arc — from the first hypothesis to the paper I'd eventually have to write. Whether I was trying to design a new electrolyte chemistry, work through a math problem, or just needed one place where a research thread didn't get lost between browser tabs, notebooks, and PDFs — that assistant didn't exist. So I'd rebuild the same scaffolding myself, every time, for every new problem. That's what Lise is. It's named after Lise Meitner — one of the greatest physicists of the 20th century, who co-discovered nuclear fission and was written out of the Nobel Prize for it. We wanted to build something worthy of her name: a serious research partner, not a toy. Give it a question — a chemistry problem, a math conjecture, a literature gap you need mapped — and Lise plans the investigation, sweeps and reads the actual literature, builds and tests hypotheses, runs the analysis, and hands you back a real, citable report you can trust and build on. Our bet is simple: every scientist on the planet should have access to the best research agents we know how to build — not just the ones with a lab's budget for RAs. This is a first, real version, and I'd love your feedback — what you'd want it to do next, where it falls short, what "assistant" means for your field that we haven't thought of yet. I'll be in the comments all day. — David