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ScholarStudio

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AI tools for serious academic work

ScholarStudio brings together custom AI tools for reading, writing,
feedback, reflection, and academic workflow. You work with your own OpenAI API key,
keeping models, usage, and costs under your control.

ScholarStudio is currently in active development. Accounts are available for early exploration.

Tools

ScholarStudio brings together a set of tools designed around core academic practices.
Each tool supports a particular way of working: reading closely, writing carefully,
thinking collaboratively, and sustaining intellectual projects over time.

MyGPT

MyGPT is a configurable AI work partner for academic work. It supports critique,
structuring, revision, and reflection, while keeping prompts, models, and costs
visible and under user control. Users can import and export conversations, manage
their own chat history, and work with multiple LLM versions within the same
conversation.

Feedback Refinery

Feedback Refinery allows users to provide audio comments on documents and then
reshape those comments into clear, constructive written feedback. It preserves
the nuance, warmth, and personality of spoken response while giving readers the
structure and clarity of written commentary. Users report that it encourages
larger quantities of better organised feedback than traditional commenting tools.

Guided reading

Structured support for working through complex academic texts. Guided Reading helps users
track arguments, clarify concepts, and practise slow, attentive reading rather than relying
on summary alone. It guides users in asking increasingly focused questions of texts and in
developing more complex prompts for AI, helping them move beyond generic prompting toward
purposeful academic critique. In this sense, it also serves as a tool for developing LLM
literacies.

Who it’s for

ScholarStudio is not a generic productivity platform retrofitted for academia. Its tools, workflows,
and defaults are deliberately chosen to support scholarly reading, writing, analysis, and reflection,
drawing from the life experience of actual HE professionals. ScholarStudio is for people who care
about thinking carefully, reading attentively, and writing with purpose. It is designed for those
who want to use AI as part of serious intellectual work, without surrendering judgment, authorship,
or responsibility.

Scholars and teachers

ScholarStudio supports research, supervision, teaching, and writing across disciplines.
It is suited to those who work with complex texts, evolving arguments, and long-term projects,
and who want tools that respect the rhythms and demands of scholarly work rather than forcing
generic productivity workflows onto them.

Students and early researchers

For students and early-career researchers, ScholarStudio offers structured support for
learning how to think with AI rather than simply producing outputs. It is particularly useful
where guidance is unevenly distributed, and where developing independent scholarly voice
matters.

AI-curious, but cautious thinkers

ScholarStudio is for those who are interested in AI but uneasy about how it is often framed
and used. If you value rigour, transparency, and accountability, and want to engage with AI
without hype or shortcuts, ScholarStudio is designed with you in mind.

Design Philosophy

ScholarStudio is built around a particular view of AI in academic work. AI should
support thinking, not replace it. It should help users learn faster, ask better
questions, develop knowledge, and work with greater clarity, without surrendering
control over their data, tools, or judgment.

AI as a thought partner

ScholarStudio treats AI as a partner for thinking: something to test ideas
against, argue with, refine, and use for intellectual pressure. Poor AI use
can flatten thought and produce generic text. ScholarStudio is designed for
a different kind of use: one that strengthens critique, speeds up learning,
and helps users focus on developing knowledge rather than outsourcing judgment.

Grounded in academic practice

ScholarStudio is shaped by over two decades of experience in higher education. Its design reflects
familiarity with how academic work is actually done: across fragmented time, under institutional
constraints, limited head-space and with actual students and colleagues.

User control by design

ScholarStudio is built around individual control. It uses a bring-your-own-key
model, allowing users to manage their own API key, monitor costs, and avoid
being locked into a large platform database. The aim is to keep personal data
local where possible, avoid storing user queries on a ScholarStudio website,
and make the practical trade-offs of AI use visible to the user.

Personalised workflows

ScholarStudio supports different ways of thinking and working. Users can move
between tasks, roles, personas, and even LLM models within a single conversation.
This makes it possible to work with AI differently as a researcher, teacher,
supervisor, writer, coder, or administrator, while keeping the conversation
coherent and under user control.

About ScholarStudio

ScholarStudio is a developing ecosystem of AI-supported tools for academic and
intellectual work. It has grown out of everyday work in higher education: teaching,
supervision, writing, feedback, administration, research, and the practical problem
of keeping ideas moving under pressure.

Built from academic practice

ScholarStudio is shaped by the working lives of people in higher education.
Its tools are designed around familiar academic tasks: reading difficult texts,
giving feedback, drafting arguments, preparing meetings, supervising students,
managing knowledge, and returning to projects over time. The focus is not on
generic productivity, but on the specific forms of thinking and communication
that academic work requires.

A developing ecosystem

ScholarStudio is still growing. New tools are added as needs emerge, existing
tools are revised through use, and the workspace is designed to become more
flexible over time. It is best understood as an evolving ecosystem rather than
a finished platform: a collection of connected tools that can be arranged,
adapted, and extended for different kinds of scholarly work.

Built for thoughtful experimentation

ScholarStudio is intended for users who want to explore AI carefully and
practically. It encourages experimentation without hiding the work behind
automation. Users remain responsible for their questions, judgments, prompts,
costs, and outputs. The aim is to make AI use more deliberate, more transparent,
and more closely tied to the development of academic knowledge.

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