Following our previous evaluations of the FutureHouse Platform’s research agents this post turns to Owl, the platform’s tool for precedent and concept detection in academic literature. Owl is intended to help researchers determine whether a given concept has already been defined, thereby streamlining theoretical groundwork and avoiding redundant
Having previously explored the FutureHouse Platform’s agents in tasks such as identifying tailor-made laws and generating a literature review on legislative backsliding, we now directly compare its Falcon agent and OpenAI’s o3. Our aim was to assess their performance on a focused literature search task: compiling a ranked
The FutureHouse Platform, launched in May 2025, is a domain-specific AI environment designed to support various stages of scientific research. It provides researchers with access to four specialised agents — each tailored to a particular task in the knowledge production pipeline: concise information retrieval (Crow), deep literature synthesis (Falcon), precedent detection
As scientific research became increasingly data-intensive and fragmented across disciplines, the limitations of traditional research workflows became more apparent. In response to these structural challenges, FutureHouse — a nonprofit backed by Eric Schmidt — launched a platform in May 2025 featuring four specialised AI agents. Designed to support literature analysis, hypothesis development,
