You know you read it.
You can’t find it.
Genora is a thinking space for one long-running project — a dissertation, a book, a multi-year investigation, a large strategy document.
You read a thousand sources to cite a hundred. Somewhere in that pile is the finding you need — the exact paper, the exact page — and you know it exists because you remember reading it. You just can’t locate it.
So you spend an afternoon hunting. Or you leave the claim uncited. Or you cite the thing you can find instead of the thing you meant.
Genora only reads what you give it. It cites every claim to the source.It never invents a reference.
Four questions. No card. Nothing charged today.
What it does — when you ask
Find the thing you know you have. Not by filename, by idea. “Where did I read that preventive maintenance costs more than predictive when the models are integrated?” — and it comes back with the paper, the passage, and where it sits in your material.
Show you what your own material says about a claim. Every quote traceable. Every source real.
Help you work through feedback. Two readers said contradictory things about chapter three. Put both in front of it and ask what they actually disagree about.
Hold what you decided, and why. Months later, when you’ve forgotten which reviewer you followed and which you rejected, the reasoning is still there.
What it will never do
It will never write your paper. Not a paragraph, not a sentence. Not a first draft you’d “just edit.”
It will never tell you what your research means. It won’t interpret your findings, characterise your argument, or decide what matters. That’s the work. That’s why you’re doing this.
It will never invent a source. If it can’t find something, it says so. If it only read part of your material, it tells you which part.
Nothing enters the record of your work that you didn’t put there. It proposes; you decide what’s kept.
How it works
Bring your research library, not a curated subset.At launch, export your Zotero library and drop it in — your sources, collections, tags and notes come with it. Keep using Zotero. Nothing to reorganise, no new system to maintain alongside the one you have.
It reads across all of it.Not one file at a time. Your project as one body of work — so when you ask a question, it searches everything you’ve given it, not the file you happen to have open.
You come back and continue.What you decided and why is waiting where you left it. Instead of forty minutes of archaeology, you pick up where your thinking stopped.
Four questions. No card. Nothing charged today.
Why “find it” is harder than it sounds
Most tools assume the thing you want is the most recent thing you wrote. In two years of watching people do this work, the document someone reaches for is usually not the newest one — it’s the note from four months ago, the earlier draft, the paper they read in the first month and half-remember now.
Search finds the file. It doesn’t find the idea you’re reaching for when you can’t remember which file it was in.
Who’s building this
I’m Bethany Warren, and I’ve built Genora alone for two years — because I kept hearing the same failure described the same way by people doing serious long-form work, and because it kept happening to me.
I don’t design it in a vacuum. I sit with dissertation coaches and with the people doing this work to learn how the work actually goes, and that decides what gets built next.
25,000 people have signed up, knowing it was in beta. More than 40 pay for it today, mostly researchers and long-form writers. No paid marketing, no outside funding.
What exists today, and what doesn’t
The workspace, uploading your material, asking questions of your own documents, and the workbench where you keep what matters. The free version already does this.
The continuity layer — the part that holds what you decided across months, so returning doesn’t start from scratch. This is what founding access is for.
Zotero library import. One export, dropped in once — sources, collections, tags and notes intact. Shipping at launch.
Anything not named above.
The free version on this site today does not do this. That’s why I’m not sending you there.
I’m not going to give you a date I don’t believe. You’ll get a build update every two weeks with where it actually stands, and the moment there’s a date I’ll hold myself to, you’ll have it.
I’m telling you the continuity layer is unproven because it is. Nobody has used it through months of real work and come back to tell you it solved the problem. That’s the risk in this, and it’s why founding access costs less than it will later.
The limits, verified against what’s actually running
| File size | Up to 50 MB |
|---|---|
| File types | PDF · Word (.docx) · Excel (.xlsx) · PowerPoint (.pptx) · CSV · RTF · plain text · Markdown |
| Not supported | Old .doc and .xls — save as .docx or PDF |
| Per document | Up to 500,000 characters, roughly 200 pages |
| Documents per project | No limit |
| How much it reads per answer | Up to 50 documents and about 120,000 characters |
Two things most tools won’t tell you.
It knows every file you’ve added — the full list is always in front of it. For any single question it reads the most relevant 50, which is why relevance matters more than volume. Its answers are limited to what it actually read, not what it wishes it had read.
Large PDFs are the weak point. 50 MB is what Genora accepts; it isn’t a promise about what will extract. Image-heavy PDFs can fail well below that gate, and no PDF over 30 MB has succeeded yet. When a file fails, Genora tells you which one and why.
Nobody has run a 400-document corpus through Genora yet — not through retrieval, and not through the continuity layer. If that’s your situation, I’d rather you knew before paying than found out in month four.
Four questions. No card. Nothing charged today.
The founding terms
$399 for the first year. Your twelve months begin the day access opens — not the day you pay. And it stays $399 for as long as you’re subscribed. Or two years for $749, same terms and same refund rights on the full amount.
60 days, money back, no conditions. The clock starts at access. One email. No explanation, no proof, no exit interview. A refund doesn’t delete anything — your export stays available for 30 days after.
Export any time, without asking. Your record and your material, in a form that opens without Genora.
If I lose your record through a failure on Genora’s side during your founding year, I refund your full year, even past 60 days. And I won’t argue the point with you — if you tell me your record is gone, that’s the end of the conversation.
Email me directly through your founding year. There’s no support department and I won’t pretend there is — no promised response time, no 1:1 calls. The upside is that the person building it is the person reading the feedback.
Nothing is charged today. Founding access opens at launch, and you decide then.
Why apply now instead of at launch
You get to watch me build. You have no relationship with me and no track record to check. That’s the honest problem with this page. Every two weeks between now and launch, you’ll get what shipped, one decision and what I rejected, one thing that was harder than expected, and where the date stands. Applying now means deciding on observation. Waiting means deciding on faith.
You get to affect what ships. Only possible now — once it’s built, it’s built.
The founding price is locked — and it’s the least important of the three.
Applications close about two weeks before launch, and people who applied get the first chance to buy.
No countdown. No seat counter. No cap. No fake scarcity.
Before you trust Genora with unpublished work
I’m not publishing privacy terms I haven’t verified. Training, founder access, subprocessors, deletion, what happens after a refund, and whether anything from your project could ever appear in public material — all of it is being checked against actual infrastructure and provider agreements, and it will be published in full before access opens.
If you want an answer before then, email me and ask. I’d rather tell you one thing I’m certain of than six I’m not.
This isn’t for you if
- You want something that writes for you, edits for you, or tells you what to think
- Your project is short, or you’ll be done in a few weeks
- Your work doesn’t have sources — Genora is built for projects with a body of material behind them
- You want a general AI assistant — this holds one body of work, not everything
- You need it today. This isn’t ready, and I’d rather you know that now
Apply for founding access
Every application is read by one person: me. Some won’t be a fit, and I’ll say so.
Four questions. No card. Nothing charged today.
There’s a free version that lets you upload your material and ask questions of it. It does not hold the state of the work between sessions — that’s the part being built.