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Lateral has been sunset. Sign ups are closed. Sunsetting LateralThe research software ecosystem has evolved rapidly, especially with the emergence of large language models (LLMs). These tools open up powerful new possibilities for scientific collaboration and discovery. We've been exploring how to responsibly build on this potential — and we believe there's a clear path forward for fully open-source science tools that are deeply aligned with the principles of open scienceAs part of this shift, we made the decision to sunset Lateral on 26 June 2025 so we can focus fully on building what’s next.Previously signed up to Lateral and have questions? Get in touchA new chapterThis isn’t the end — it’s the beginning of something better.We’re excited to invite you to a new open-source platform, already live at coordination.network. Alongside research capabilities, it will introduce new ways to support, fund, and connect researchers across disciplines and borders.At the heart of this transition is our belief in a more decentralized and incentive-aligned future for science — where knowledge is open, researchers are rewarded fairly, and can shape the future of AI and research collaboration.We’d love to have you join us.Request early accessConnectTwitterYouTubeLinkedInProductHelp PagesBlogCompanyAboutContactBuilt in Berlin © 2025 Lateral GmbH Terms, Privacy, Security & LegalBy clicking “Agree”, you agree to the storing of cookies on your device to enhance site navigation, analyse site usage, and assist in our marketing efforts. View our Privacy Policy for more information.More OptionsDenyAgreePrivacy Preference CenterWhen you visit websites, they may store or retrieve data in your browser. This storage is often necessary for the basic functionality of the website. The storage may be used for marketing, analytics, and personalization of the site, such as storing your preferences. Privacy is important to us, so you have the option of disabling certain types of storage that may not be necessary for the basic functioning of the website. Blocking categories may impact your experience on the website.Reject all cookiesAllow all cookiesManage Consent Preferences by CategoryEssentialAlways ActiveThese items are required to enable basic website functionality.MarketingCheckboxThese items are used to deliver advertising that is more relevant to you and your interests. They may also be used to limit the number of times you see an advertisement and measure the effectiveness of advertising campaigns. 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The world and technology is moving faster than ever before and yet reviewing and navigating information across documents is still a struggle. As is capturing expertise in a way that enables smart workflows to build on prior work and knowledge.Lateral is the modern AI software for anyone who needs to rapidly navigate information across documents. For anyone that wants to supercharge their research with an AI assistant for finding information and with a simple UI for organising information. We are machine learning experts, have built our technology from the ground up, are obsessed with creating simple UX and delightful solutions to complex problems. We are an international team based in Berlin and Hobart.Leadership Team"The world is facing some of its biggest challenges. We need better solutions that best support, accelerate and motivate those finding answers.CCO + Co-founderFelix"Everyday is inspiring, getting to work with a mix of incredible people, with such a range of expertise and backgrounds, to weave together complex and powerful ideas into an intuitive product.CEO & Co-founderMartin"The best part of my job is the amazing team, who are a pleasure to work with on interesting technical challenges in an environment where we are constantly learning and innovating.CTO & Co-founderMax"The most exciting part of my job is creating complex systems with cutting-edge technologies and the impact of improving workflows in our customers' companies in the process.VP EngineeringJann"I have no trouble getting up every morning. I feel fortunate to work with extremely talented colleagues on truly challenging applications of machine learning that will fundamentally improve the work lives of many.CSO & Co-founderBenand our extended family"Europe's seed fund. We invest early in world-class founders attacking large, global markets and solving real problems using technology.LondonSeedcamp"I was born into a family with an ardent passion for business, and have remained a joyful, lifelong entrepreneur. I can’t imagine a more rewarding career. And the journey continues.CurtiBeatOur Values⚡️Proactivity👍Positivity🚀Ambition🙌Honesty🤝Trust🌍DiversityLocationsOnce across the oceanBERLINHOBARTBy clicking “Agree”, you agree to the storing of cookies on your device to enhance site navigation, analyse site usage, and assist in our marketing efforts. View our Privacy Policy for more information.More OptionsDenyAgreePrivacy Preference CenterWhen you visit websites, they may store or retrieve data in your browser. This storage is often necessary for the basic functionality of the website. The storage may be used for marketing, analytics, and personalization of the site, such as storing your preferences. 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For example, a website may provide you with local weather reports or traffic news by storing data about your current location.AnalyticsCheckboxThese items help the website operator understand how its website performs, how visitors interact with the site, and whether there may be technical issues. This storage type usually doesn’t collect information that identifies a visitor.Confirm my preferences and closeButton TextConnectTwitterYouTubeLinkedInProductHelp PagesBlogCompanyAboutContactBuilt in Berlin © 2025 Lateral GmbH Terms, Privacy, Security & Legal --- Lateral has been sunset. A New Chapter begins - find out moreSign inHelp PagesHere you can find answers to common questions. Fast track your lit review. Get started with Lateral.Forget tags. Use Concepts to find text fast.Build on your knowledge. Create an AI repository.Getting started1. Create a Project2. Add Documents3. Search across all your Documents4. Save text to concepts5. Get text suggestionsFeatured VideosRead a research paper effectively - Andy StapletonLit Review 10x Faster (ft. Lateral) - PhD Coffee TimeSummarise articles efficiently with Lateral - Science Grad School CoachPayment + PricingCan I pay monthly? Yes.Do you offer an academic Discount? Yes.What payment methods do you offer?AI / Machine LearningDoes Lateral use GPT? No.Do you train the AI on my data? No.SubscriptionsHow can I upgrade to a subscription?How do I manage my subscription?What happens when I cancel my subscription?General InformationHow can I get more pages?TerminologyWhat is Lateral?Table ViewHow to I share a Public link to my table?Where can I rename a document?Export + ImportHow can I export my findings?Super SearchWhich boolean search operators can I use?Document ViewWhat is OCR (Optical Character Recognition)?The highlighting does not work?Dashboard + AdminHow can I invite workspace members?How toShare Lateral with your SupervisorConnectTwitterYouTubeLinkedInProductHelp PagesBlogCompanyAboutContactBuilt in Berlin © 2025 Lateral GmbH Terms, Privacy, Security & LegalBy clicking “Agree”, you agree to the storing of cookies on your device to enhance site navigation, analyse site usage, and assist in our marketing efforts. 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A New Chapter begins - find out moreSign inSpace for ThoughtGuides and resources for PhDs and researchers, as well as technical deep dives.FeaturedFeatured#5 - How I am exploring racialised emotions and power in an elite British university contextThis post is the fifth of a series of posts showcasing some of the amazing research projects from our community of Lateral pioneers. Best Practice ArticlesGuidesNeed help getting started? Here we have created content around some of the most common questions from the community. Dive in and hit the ground running.GuidesTransforming Academic Research with Next-Generation Document ReviewEmpower Your Research with Efficiency and PrecisionGuidesUnlocking Joy in the Literature Review: How Lateral Transformed Sarah's Stress into Inspiration and ClarityFollow Sarah's Journey as She Turns Stress into Enjoyment and Maximizes Research Impact in the Literature Review Process.GuidesKickstart your literature review with Lateral and Super SearchRead this guide to learn more about the Super Search function, allowing you to search across all your documents at once.Pioneer ShowcasesHow I am...This series showcases some of the amazing work of our pioneers. From building mechanical twins for optimising manufacturing processes to solving racial injustice at universities.How I am...#5 - How I am exploring racialised emotions and power in an elite British university contextThis post is the fifth of a series of posts showcasing some of the amazing research projects from our community of Lateral pioneers. How I am...#4 - How I am expanding the notion of more-than-human health care through a case study of BerlinThis post is the fourth of a series of posts showcasing some of the amazing research projects from our community of Lateral pioneers. How I am...#3 - How I use Lateral to improve the UK health and social care fieldsThis post is the third of a series of posts showcasing some of the amazing research projects from our community of Lateral pioneers. All research postsAllGuidesHow I am...ResearchVideosGuidesTransforming Academic Research with Next-Generation Document ReviewEmpower Your Research with Efficiency and PrecisionGuidesUnlocking Joy in the Literature Review: How Lateral Transformed Sarah's Stress into Inspiration and ClarityFollow Sarah's Journey as She Turns Stress into Enjoyment and Maximizes Research Impact in the Literature Review Process.How I am...#5 - How I am exploring racialised emotions and power in an elite British university contextThis post is the fifth of a series of posts showcasing some of the amazing research projects from our community of Lateral pioneers. How I am...#4 - How I am expanding the notion of more-than-human health care through a case study of BerlinThis post is the fourth of a series of posts showcasing some of the amazing research projects from our community of Lateral pioneers. How I am...#3 - How I use Lateral to improve the UK health and social care fieldsThis post is the third of a series of posts showcasing some of the amazing research projects from our community of Lateral pioneers. How I am...#2 - How I use Lateral to better structure and share my researchThis post is the second of a series of posts showcasing some of the amazing research projects from our community of Lateral pioneers. GuidesKickstart your literature review with Lateral and Super SearchRead this guide to learn more about the Super Search function, allowing you to search across all your documents at once.How I am...#1 - How I am developing a digital twin to optimise manufacturing processesThis post is the first of a series of posts showcasing some of the amazing research projects from our community of Lateral pioneers. GuidesKickstart your literature review with Lateral: 3 different ways to organise your conceptsThis guide gives you 3 ways of structuring your concepts in Lateral; Research Themes, Structural Concepts, Keywords.Guides4 ways academic researchers can avoid writer's block The reason for writer’s block in academia often comes down to the challenge of sorting out the thoughts of sophisticated research, and how to communicate it.ResearchThere is a better way than Dropbox and Google Drive to do collaborative researchIn this blog, I describe the limitations of Dropbox and Google in the space of research, and propose Lateral as the much needed alternative.GuidesA beginner’s guide: get the most out of the Lateral app!Welcome to this beginner’s guide, dedicated to help you get the most out of the Lateral app!ResearchRemote group work and the best student collaboration toolsIn this blog, I outline some organisational techniques and the best digital collaborative tools for successful student group work.ResearchAccelerate your dissertation literature review with AIWe built a better tool for research and literature review.Research6 things to consider and organise before writing your dissertation (and how Lateral can help)I hope the following six things to consider and organise will make the complex dissertation writing more manageable.GuidesHelping you review documents fasterWe want to make it possible for any expert to capture and scale their expertise.All technical postsAllDemosDevMachine LearningMachine LearningUsing machine learning to segment documentsBreaking documents into “chunks”, like sections and subsections, is easy for humans, but surprisingly hard for computers. In this post we explain why this is, why it’s a valuable problem to solve, and we introduce our new solution.Machine LearningText segmentation using word embeddingsThis post describes a simple principle to split documents into coherent segments, using word embeddings. Machine LearningSemantic trees for training word embeddings with hierarchical softmaxIn this blog post we describe an experiment to construct semantic trees and show how they can improve the quality of the learned embeddings in common word analogy and similarity tasks.Machine LearningCrosslingual document comparisonHow can you learn a map from a German language to an English language word vectorisation model, to enable crosslingual document comparison? DevCreating an Azure VHD from Ubuntu Cloud Images on Mac OS XHow to create a VHD that is fully compatible with Azure from an Ubuntu Cloud Image base.Machine LearningA fastText-based hybrid recommenderBy labelling documents with the users who read them, we used fastText to hack together a “hybrid recommender” system.DevCreate a Chrome extension to modify a website’s HTML or CSSIn this blog post, I will create a Chrome extension that modifies this blog to set a custom background and to modify the HTMLDevGive me fiveBuild your own Give me five Chrome extension using our open source template, based on our popular NewsBot Chrome extension for recommending news.Machine LearningClustering debates from UK politiciansWhat kind of language do British parliamentarians use? We used the Lateral API to provide an overview by clustering debates and creating word clouds.DevPostgreSQL replication with Londiste from Skytools 3We migrated our multiple PostgreSQL databases between cloud providers. Key was to keep downtime to an absolute minimum. This is what we did using Londiste.Machine LearningTeaching machines new languagesPreviously we wrote about how machines can learn meaning. An exciting opportunity of this approach is that it also enables teaching machines new languages.DevArticle Extractor APIAnnouncing our Article Extractor API! Rapidly extract the text as well as image, title, keywords, author and more from any article and blog post URLs.DevWe're open-sourcing a new out-of-memory ANN search toolWe’ve been doing occasional work on an approximate nearest neighbours (ANN) vector search tool, written in Python. Today, we are open sourcing it.DevThe awesomeness of pjaxpjax is a jQuery library created by Chris Wanstrath. As we recently decided to use it, I thought it might be valuable to share our experience.Machine LearningThe arXiv as DatasetThe arXiv is a repository of over 1 million preprints. It is truly open access, and excellent for testing language modelling / machine learning prototypes.DevNewsBot under the hoodThis article is about our NewsBot chrome extension, the fastest way to find related articles.Machine LearningHow do machines learn meaning?Computers consist of on/off switches and process meaningless symbols. So how is it that we can hope that machines learn meaning of words and documents?DevYou'll never guess which API documentation tools we useToday I am going to talk about API documentation tools. Specifically, the ones that we use at Lateral to create the Lateral API documentation.Machine LearningThe Unknown Perils of Mining WikipediaIf a machine is to learn about humans from Wikipedia, it must experience the corpus as a human sees it and ignore the mass of robot-generated pages.Machine LearningLeveraging machine learning to discover researchBy ignoring citation graphs and keywords, you can discover research and researchers you never knew existed. Check it out!DevFull text search in milliseconds with PostgreSQLWe wanted to create a fast search experience for the visualiser that lets you search the full text of documents as well as their titles to quickly find a document to get Lateral recommendations for.DevAPIDays Berlin & APIStrat EuropeThe Lateral tech team opinions on various API as part of the APIDays Berlin & APIStrat Europe conference Speedhack.Get into flow.ConnectTwitterYouTubeLinkedInProductHelp PagesBlogCompanyAboutContactBuilt in Berlin © 2025 Lateral GmbH Terms, Privacy, Security & LegalBy clicking “Agree”, you agree to the storing of cookies on your device to enhance site navigation, analyse site usage, and assist in our marketing efforts. View our Privacy Policy for more information.More OptionsDenyAgreePrivacy Preference CenterWhen you visit websites, they may store or retrieve data in your browser. This storage is often necessary for the basic functionality of the website. The storage may be used for marketing, analytics, and personalization of the site, such as storing your preferences. Privacy is important to us, so you have the option of disabling certain types of storage that may not be necessary for the basic functioning of the website. Blocking categories may impact your experience on the website.Reject all cookiesAllow all cookiesManage Consent Preferences by CategoryEssentialAlways ActiveThese items are required to enable basic website functionality.MarketingCheckboxThese items are used to deliver advertising that is more relevant to you and your interests. They may also be used to limit the number of times you see an advertisement and measure the effectiveness of advertising campaigns. 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