Using a chatbot for research means a small tax you pay every single time: leave the work, open a tab, re-explain the context you are already looking at, paste in the relevant part, read the answer, come back, remember what you were doing. The tax is small. You pay it forty times a day.
Elyvo removes the tax. It reads the screen you are already on. There is nothing to paste, because it can see what you are working on.
Ask about what is in front of you
Hit the hotkey over a paper, a dashboard, a spec, a codebase, an error message. Elyvo takes the screen as context and answers about that — not about a description of it you had to type out first.
- A dense paper — what is the actual claim, and what would falsify it?
- A spec or RFC — what does this leave undefined?
- An error you have not seen before — what is it really telling you?
- A competitor's page — what are they implicitly claiming, and where is the gap?
Push the idea, do not just answer the question
Brainstorming with a model that agrees with you is a way of feeling productive without being productive. Elyvo's brainstorm mode is built to argue back — to name the angle you have not considered, the assumption you smuggled in, the weaker half of your own idea.
That is the difference between a tool that drafts for you and a tool that thinks with you.
It remembers the thread
Research is not one question. It is forty, over three days, branching. Every Elyvo session is saved, searchable and resumable, so on Thursday you can pick up the thread you dropped on Tuesday instead of rebuilding the context from memory.
Add files and documents to a project and they become part of the context Elyvo works from, which means the answers stop being generic and start being about your actual material.
Four modes, one hotkey
Research and brainstorm are two of the four purpose-built modes — the others being interview and meeting. Each is tuned to help differently: brainstorm wants to widen the space, research wants to narrow it. Same hotkey, different intent.
Web search, and what it costs you
Elyvo can search the web when a question needs current information rather than a model's recollection of one.
Worth knowing: when you use Elyvo, your prompts and the relevant screen context are sent to AI providers (OpenAI, OpenRouter, Google) in order to produce an answer. If you are working on something confidential, that is a real consideration and you should read the Privacy Policy before pointing it at that material.
Start free
The free plan needs no card. Point it at whatever you are stuck on right now — that is a faster evaluation than any feature list.