— RESEARCH WRITING STUDIO —

Write like a scholar.
Edit like a reviewer.

Hanova AI is a step-by-step research writing studio for PhD and research scholars. Define your topic, find high-impact papers, extract their methods and findings, design your methodology, then outline, write, humanise and cite your paper — reviewing and refining every step yourself.

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Designed for PhD scholars across the sciences and humanities.
The Workflow
  1. 1
    Topic
    Research questions and search queries
  2. 2
    Literature
    High-impact papers, filtered your way
  3. 3
    Deep-dive
    Methods, findings and the research gap
  4. 4
    Methodology
    Design and step-by-step procedure
  5. 5
    Outline
    Your table of contents, word budgets
  6. 6
    Write
    Section by section, cited from your papers
  7. 7
    Polish
    Humanise and reduce source overlap
  8. 8
    Figures
    Flow diagrams, charts and timelines
  9. 9
    Review
    Journal-style critique
  10. 10
    Final report
    APA · IEEE · Chicago · Harvard · MLA
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guided steps
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document formats
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citation styles
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export formats
— THE PROBLEM —

Writing the paper is harder than doing the research.

  • ✕The blank page paralyses even after months of reading.
  • ✕AI tools produce flat, generic prose that any reviewer spots in two paragraphs.
  • ✕Citation management is a chore; reformatting between APA, Harvard, MLA, IEEE, and Chicago is worse.
  • ✕Generic AI tools hallucinate references, mangle numbers, and forget your sources.
— WHAT HANOVA AI DOES —

Ten guided steps. Your sources. Your voice.

  • ✓Each step does one job — and you can edit, regenerate or refine its output before moving on.
  • ✓The writer is grounded in the papers you select — full text where available — not the model's training data.
  • ✓The humaniser runs up to five focused passes — including one that breaks the uniform fact density and unescorted jargon that trip AI detectors.
  • ✓Citations come only from papers you selected — verified scholarly records, DOIs, BibTeX or your own uploads — never invented. APA 6/7, Harvard, Harvard (AU), MLA 8/9, IEEE, Chicago.
— STEP BY STEP —

How Hanova AI works

From a research question to a finished, cited paper. The agents do the heavy lifting; you stay the author.

— THE FLOW —

From your research question to a finished paper

Three stages. You bring the question and the sources, you steer every step, you download.

— YOU PROVIDE — — WE WRITE — — YOU DOWNLOAD — 📚 Your sources Found papers, DOIs, BibTeX, uploads — eight formats ✦ Your research question One paragraph — what you want to write about ⚙ A few preferences Length, style, tone — simple sliders 1 We plan the outline Sections, structure, story arc — before writing a word 2 We draft from your sources Every claim grounded in the papers you selected 3 We make it sound human Vary rhythm, add scholar's voice, break AI patterns 4 We rewrite repetitive parts Spots passages that mirror your sources, paraphrases them 5 We critique the draft A peer-reviewer voice points out weak claims and gaps 6 We add the citations APA, Harvard, MLA, IEEE, Chicago — in your final report PDF Word Markdown HTML Text LaTeX

You set the direction, review each step, and download a finished, cited paper.

— YOUR JOURNEY —

Five stages from blank page to citation-ready paper

  1. Step 01

    Sign up and set your topic

    Create an account, name your project and describe the research — the topic step turns it into questions and search queries.

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  2. Step 02

    Find the right papers

    Search leading scholarly databases with your own filters — citation impact, quartile, years, citations — or add papers by DOI, BibTeX or PDF.

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  3. Step 03

    Read, find the gap, design the method

    Per-paper notes and a literature matrix lead to the research gap; the methodology step designs how you will close it.

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  4. Step 04

    Outline, write and polish

    Use your own table of contents or a template, draft section by section, then humanise. Edit or refine any step.

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  5. Step 05

    Final report and export

    Read the reviewer critique, then build the final report — contents, citations, references — as PDF · DOCX · MD · HTML · TXT · LaTeX.

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— EACH STEP IN DETAIL —

What the agents actually do

01

Define your topic

Give a working title and a short description. The topic step proposes sharper titles, a problem statement, research questions, objectives, keywords and search queries — all editable.

  • ✦ Discipline and paper type set the direction
  • ✦ Optional target journal
  • ✦ Edit anything before moving on
02

Find high-impact papers

Search leading scholarly databases with your own thresholds. Every result shows its journal, impact score, quartile, citations and a one-line reason it is relevant. Tick the papers you want to build on.

  • ✦ journal quartile, citation impact, years, citations, open access
  • ✦ Add papers by DOI, BibTeX or PDF upload
  • ✦ Open-access PDFs fetched and indexed automatically
03

Read deeply, find the gap

Each selected paper is read — full text where available — and summarised: problem, method, data, findings, limitations. A literature matrix and synthesis lead to the research gap.

  • ✦ Literature matrix across all papers
  • ✦ Themes, agreements and contradictions
  • ✦ A research-gap statement you can edit
04

Design, outline and write

The methodology step designs your approach. The outline follows your own table of contents or a paper-type template, and each section is drafted with citations to your selected papers.

  • ✦ Notes and word counts per section
  • ✦ IMRaD, IEEE conference, review, thesis chapter, proposal
  • ✦ Rewrite any single section
05

Polish, add figures, review

Humanise the prose and reduce overlap with your sources, add flow diagrams and charts, then get a journal-style critique. Select any passage in any step and say how to change it.

  • ✦ AI-likeness and overlap score per section
  • ✦ Methodology flow diagrams, results charts, PRISMA and timelines
  • ✦ Before / after view and version history on every step
06

Final report and export

Assemble the finished paper: title block, abstract and keywords, table of contents, numbered sections, in-text citations and a reference list of only the papers you cite.

  • ✦ APA 6/7, Harvard, Harvard (AU), MLA 8/9, IEEE, Chicago
  • ✦ Switch style and reformat in seconds
  • ✦ PDF, Word, Markdown, HTML, text or LaTeX
— THE AGENTS —

Ten steps. One coherent paper.

Each agent has a single responsibility and a tight prompt. Together they follow how a careful scholar actually works — scoping the question, reading the literature, finding the gap, designing the method, then drafting, revising, seeking critique and only then formatting citations. You approve each step.

1

Topic

Turns your idea into title options, a problem statement, research questions, objectives, keywords and database search queries.

2

Literature

Searches scholarly databases, attaches journal impact score and SJR quartile, applies your thresholds, and ranks papers by relevance and quality.

3

Analyst

Reads each selected paper — full text where available — and extracts problem, method, data, findings and limitations, then synthesises themes and the research gap.

4

Methodology

Designs the research approach, procedure, data, variables, tools and evaluation, justifying each choice with your selected papers.

5

Planner

Builds the outline — from your own table of contents or a paper-type template — with word budgets, key points and the papers each section should cite.

6

Writer

Drafts each section from your notes and retrieved evidence, with [cite:key] markers limited to papers you selected. Banned phrasing filtered.

7

Humaniser

Up to five focused passes per paragraph, then an originality pass that rewrites anything too close to your sources — meaning kept, expression changed.

8

Figures

Draws methodology flow diagrams, architecture diagrams, results charts, PRISMA selection diagrams and project timelines — charts use only your own numbers.

9

Reviewer

Adopts a senior journal reviewer voice. Returns a verdict, major and minor comments, and suggestions.

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Final report

Formats in-text citations and the reference list in your chosen style, adds the title block, contents and numbered headings. No model call — deterministic.

— UNDER YOUR CONTROL —

Three knobs. Nine settings. Total control.

You decide how aggressive the humanisation is, how much overlap with source material to tolerate, and how creative the language gets. Tune per project.

Humanisation

Drives how many focused rewrite passes the humaniser runs on every paragraph. The naturalise pass — which breaks fact density and escorts jargon — runs at every level.

  • Low 2 passes — naturalise + polish
  • Medium 3 passes — restructure + naturalise + polish
  • High 5 passes — restructure + naturalise + voice + polish + destabilise

Similarity reduction

Sets the 5-gram Jaccard overlap threshold for rewriting source-similar passages.

  • Low Only rewrite near-duplicates (≥ 0.85)
  • Medium Balanced (≥ 0.65)
  • High Rewrite moderate overlap (≥ 0.40)

Creativity

Controls how varied the wording is across writing, humanising and originality passes.

  • Low Conservative (0.35) — precise, technical
  • Medium Balanced (0.75) — default
  • High Bold (1.05) — richer phrasing
— WHAT YOU CAN WRITE —

Built for every research deliverable

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cited
Research Papers
Conference and journal submissions with full citations.
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cited
Thesis Chapters
Long-form work with section coherence and source grounding.
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cited
Literature Reviews
Synthesis across many sources, organised by theme.
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plain
Technical Reports
Crisp prose without academic references when not needed.
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cited
Research Proposals
Aims, methods, and significance — concise and convincing.
— DESIGNED FOR SCHOLARS —

Everything a researcher actually needs

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High-impact literature search
Search leading scholarly databases with your own thresholds — journal quartile, citation impact, years, citations, open access — and see why each paper is relevant.
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Works with every format
Drop in PDFs, Word docs, LaTeX manuscripts, EPUBs, Markdown, HTML, RTF, plain text — eight formats covered. Headings detected automatically.
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Refine any passage
Select text in any step, say what to change, and accept or discard the rewrite. Every step keeps a version history you can restore.
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Your structure, your rules
Write your own table of contents — with notes and word counts per section — and the outline keeps it exactly.
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Citations on your terms
Eight styles — APA 6, APA 7, Harvard, Harvard (Australia), MLA 8, MLA 9, IEEE, Chicago. Switch style and the final report reformats in seconds.
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Bring your own BibTeX
Paste entries from Google Scholar, Zotero or Mendeley — books and websites too — straight into the Literature step.
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Figures and diagrams
Methodology flow diagrams, results charts, PRISMA selection diagrams and project timelines — numbered, captioned and placed in the right section. Charts use only your own data.
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A finished final report
Title block, abstract and keywords, table of contents, numbered sections, and a reference list of only the papers you cite — in PDF, Word, Markdown, HTML, text or LaTeX.
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References never invented
Every citation traces to a verified record or a file you supplied; any key that does not match a selected paper is removed automatically.
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Honest about limits
We optimise for originality and human-style cadence. We do not claim "AI-undetectable" or "plagiarism-free" — always review before submitting.
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Hanova AI doesn't replace your judgement — it relieves the friction of structuring, drafting, and re-reading. The author is still you.

— THE HANOVA AI PROMISE —
— FREQUENTLY ASKED —

Questions scholars ask

Will the writing pass an AI detector? +

We deliberately make no such claim. Hanova AI optimises for sentence-rhythm variety and source-overlap reduction, and shows you an AI-likeness and overlap score per section — but AI detectors are noisy and adversarial. Always review and revise before submitting.

Where do my documents go? +

Your documents and projects are private to your account. The passages each step needs are processed by Hanova AI to generate your text, and nothing is shared with other users.

Can I skip citations for a report? +

Yes. Citations only come from the papers you select in the Literature step — select none and the paper is written without citations or a reference list. For your own text, use “Polish my own text” with citations switched off.

What if a paper is not in the search results? +

Add it by DOI, paste its BibTeX (books and websites too), or upload the PDF in the Literature step. For paywalled papers found by search, upload the PDF to give the agents its full text.

How long does each step take? +

Most steps finish in seconds to about a minute: a literature search takes around 30 seconds, drafting a 2,000-word paper well under a minute on the default model, and the final report about two seconds. Higher humanisation and longer papers take longer — and you decide when to move on.

Which AI model writes the draft? +

Hanova AI uses advanced AI language models. You choose the quality per project — Fast, Balanced or Premium — and can switch at any time.

Is there a free plan? +

Yes — during early access Hanova AI is free for individual researchers.

Can I install it on my own server? +

Yes. Universities and research groups that need full control over where their data lives can run Hanova AI on their own servers.

— READY WHEN YOU ARE —

Start your next paper today.

Sign up free, set a research question, and let Hanova AI guide you from the literature to a finished, cited paper — one step at a time.

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