Literature Review
helio / academic-writingGive it your research question and scope. Your AI teammate gathers literature, drafts a sourced review, and keeps tracking new papers — every citation traceable back to a real source.
Start a literature review on transformer efficiency for my thesis, and keep it in one versioned file I can reopen months from now. Gather the key papers, tie every claim to a checkable source, and flag where the sources disagree. Ask me what you need before you start.
Swap in your own research question and field. It runs weekly after, surfacing new papers against the review it already built.
What is Literature Review?
It gathers literature into a structured review, ties every claim to a checkable source, and flags where papers disagree. It won't invent a citation or make your research-design calls; unsupported claims get flagged, and the analysis stays yours.
What it does
Any chatbot writes a literature review once. Helio runs it as a standing job — from your context, kept current, delivered to you.
| Owns the whole job | It builds the review, tracks new papers weekly, and flags any that challenge an existing claim. |
| Runs again without starting over | Once the review exists, it re-runs weekly against academic search on a fixed schedule. |
| Writes from your context | It drafts into your local manuscript files and matches your citation style, APA, MLA, or Chicago. |
| Keeps itself current | New publications are summarized against the review it already built, so months-long work stays current. |
| Lands where you work | The weekly new-paper digest arrives in Slack, Lark, or email. |
Three things it gets right
One versioned file across months
The review lives in a single tracked file that survives months of sessions, so each revision reads as a diff.
It won't invent a citation
A claim with no checkable source is flagged as unsupported, a hard rule enforced on every draft.
New papers tracked weekly
Each week's relevant publications are summarized against your review, with a flag when one challenges a claim.
What Literature Review connects to.
Questions
- Can it invent a citation if it can't find a real source?
- No. If a claim can't be tied to a real, checkable source, it's flagged as unsupported rather than given a fabricated citation. This is a hard rule, not a best-effort preference.
- Does it write the whole paper for me?
- It drafts and polishes chapters and helps structure the argument, but the research design, analysis, and final judgment calls stay yours.
- How current is its literature search?
- As current as the academic search sources it's connected to — the weekly tracking workflow exists specifically to catch what's published after the initial review.
- Can it match a specific citation style?
- Yes — tell it the required style (APA, MLA, Chicago, or a journal-specific format) and it formats citations consistently throughout.
Spend your time on the research, not the review.
Give Helio your research question — it builds a sourced review and keeps tracking new papers every week.
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