Run a literature review
Use your library, Sources Hub, and chat to survey a field and write a cited literature review.
A literature review lives or dies on its sources. A good review is not a list of summaries (“Paper A found this, Paper B found that”). It groups the papers by idea, shows where they agree and disagree, and says what is still missing. Multilo helps with every step: gather the literature, let the AI read across all of it, and write a cited review grounded in the papers you actually have.
Watch: write a literature review with AI
A real run in one Multilo chat: it collects six studies into the library, groups them into themes, finds a gap and fills it, writes the review by theme in Word, and checks every citation against the full papers.
1. Collect the literature
Build your library
Find what's missing
Use Sources Hub to mine references out of your papers and search the web for gaps, adding curated sources in one click. When a PDF can’t be downloaded, ask Multilo to save the reference with its abstract instead, so you know which papers it can read in full.
2. Map the field
Ask in chat: “Read the papers in my library and group them into themes. For each theme, tell me which papers belong to it, what they found, and how strong the evidence is. Then tell me where the papers disagree and what is still missing.” Use Super Search to find related passages across papers by meaning. This is where the structure of your review comes from.
Look closely at the gaps. Often the papers you collected don’t test your exact question. When that happens, go back to step 1 and ask Multilo to find studies that do.
3. Write the review
Ask in chat for the review in a Word file, organized by theme: “Write the literature review as a new Word file, about 450 words, organized by theme, with APA citations and a reference list. Use only the papers in my library.” Ask it to say where the papers disagree and what is still missing, not just what each one found. When the Full Draft Writer is available again, you can also run it with a literature-review brief for a longer draft.
Reviews reward a good library
The more complete your library before drafting, the more comprehensive and balanced the review. Iterate: add sources, redo a section.
4. Verify and polish
Ask Multilo to check every citation against the full text of the papers in your library: “Does each paper really say what the sentence claims? Fix anything that is wrong.” This catches claims that sound right but overstate a result. When Claim Check is available again, it does this for the whole document.
Then read the final text yourself. Check that each in-text citation sits inside its sentence, before the full stop, and that the citation style is consistent before you share the Word file.