Faculti

What Faculti does

Faculti is a London-based research discovery platform, founded in 2013, that combines a semantic AI search layer with a proprietary corpus of more than one million expert video clips drawn from over 10,000 researchers and policy experts. The platform indexes 250 million+ peer-reviewed papers and structures every expert interview into timestamped, citable contributions — theories, findings, and methods — each registered with a Crossref DOI and indexed through OCLC, embedding Faculti outputs into the global scholarly citation infrastructure.

Its product surface spans core research tools (Faculti Research, Ask for AI Q&A, Citation Map, Research Pulse, Your Doi), teaching-facing modules (Modules, Topics, Tracks, Teaching Notes), and content verticals (Editorial, Contributions, Institutions, Caselaw, Databank). Distribution combines a self-serve free sign-up via faculti.net and dedicated mobile apps (iOS and Android) with institutional sales through For Universities and For Organisations programmes; paid monetisation is not publicly priced and is presumed to flow from individual subscriptions and institutional licensing. The platform also exposes API access and Model Context Protocol (MCP) integration, allowing third-party AI tools to draw on Faculti's corpus. Customers include Duke University, UCSD, Imperial College London, UCL, King's College London, LSE, Monash, University of Adelaide, NUS, and Bank of Korea. The company is private, headquartered in the UK, and operates with 11–50 employees. Founded by Sam Mohammad.

Name

Faculti

Legal name

Faculti

Website

https://faculti.net

Company type

Private

Founded year

2013

Operating status

Operating

Headcount range

11–50 employees

Short description

Faculti is a London-based semantic AI research discovery platform offering 1M+ expert video clips, 250M+ peer-reviewed papers, and DOI-citable contributions. It serves scholars, students, policymakers, professionals, universities, and organisations through freemium and institutional channels.

Ownership category

akta.pro rank

Product category

Academic Research Discovery Platform

NAICS

Web Search Portals and All Other Information Services (519290), Web Search Portals and All Other Information Services (51929), Libraries and Archives (51921), Libraries and Archives (519210), Software Publishers (513210)

SIC

Services-Prepackaged Software (7372)

akta.pro industry

PRIMARYMPAJAMAJ

Digital Archives, Libraries & Institutional Access Platforms

Media, Entertainment & Sports/Publishing (Books, News, Magazines)/Digital Publishing Platforms (E-books & Online Articles)

SECONDARYEDAGAJAL

OER Repositories, Discovery & Metadata Services

Education/Educational Publishing & Learning Content/Open Educational Resources (OER) & Open Textbooks

SECONDARYMPACAKAB

Topic/Interest-Based Content Discovery Apps

Media, Entertainment & Sports/Digital Media & Content Platforms (Online Video, Podcasts, Creators)/Digital Content Aggregators & Discovery (Feed/Curated)

SECONDARYMPACAKAH

Content Curation & Bookmarking/Read-Later Platforms

Media, Entertainment & Sports/Digital Media & Content Platforms (Online Video, Podcasts, Creators)/Digital Content Aggregators & Discovery (Feed/Curated)

Keywords

• Research discovery platform
• Academic video search
• Scholarly citation tools
• Expert knowledge platform
• Higher education e-learning

Headquarters

HQ city

London

HQ country

United Kingdom

HQ region

Europe

Markets served

GTM type

B2B and B2C

Offering type

Software

Cost components

Technology or R&D, Personnel, Marketing or Sales, Operations, Infrastructure, Supply Chain

Revenue model

1. Platform Access (Subscription): Platform access model, likely subscription-based for individual users and institutional licenses for universities and organisations

Go-to-market motion1 record

Distribution channels6 records

Marketing channels6 records

Core offering

Faculti operates a semantic AI-powered research discovery platform built around a database of more than one million expert video clips drawn from 10,000+ researchers and policy experts. The platform allows users to search by meaning across 250 million+ peer-reviewed papers, access timestamped and DOI-citable video contributions, and surface expert insights via tools such as Ask, Citation Map, Research Pulse, and Databank. Distribution combines a self-serve free sign-up for individual scholars and students with dedicated institutional licensing programs for universities and organisations worldwide.

Product overview

Faculti is a research discovery platform offering a unified portfolio of products centered on expert video interviews and academic content. The core offering is the Clip Database (1M+ expert clips) accessible through the Faculti Research platform with semantic search capabilities. Supporting products include Ask (AI-powered Q&A), Citation Map (citation visualization), and Research Pulse (daily summaries). Teaching tools include Modules, Topics, Tracks, and Teaching Notes for educational use. Content services include Editorial (news-research connections), Contributions (structured intellectual contributions), Institutions (university directory), Caselaw (legal cases), and Databank (economic indicators). Technical integrations are enabled via MCP (Model Context Protocol) and API access. The platform serves scholars, students, policymakers, and professionals across disciplines from law and economics to science and education.

Differentiator

Problem solved

Functional benefit

Products and services

• Faculti Research Advanced research platform that enables users to ask questions, synthesize findings, and compare research across 250 million peer-reviewed papers using semantic search and AI-powered discovery tools. Targeted at scholars, graduate students, policymakers, and professionals.
• Clip Database Searchable database of more than one million expert video clips from leading researchers and policy experts worldwide, covering disciplines from law and economics to science and education. Each clip is timestamped and linked to a DOI-registered citable contribution.
• Ask AI-powered Q&A feature that provides answers backed by 250 million+ peer-reviewed papers, enabling researchers and students to query the academic literature conversationally.
• Citation Map Visualisation tool that displays citation networks across 250 million+ papers, helping researchers understand relationships between academic works and track research impact.
• Research Pulse Daily summary service that aggregates and presents the latest academic publications, keeping researchers informed of new developments in their fields.
• Editorial News and current affairs content connected to academic research, featuring expert commentary on breaking stories including trade policy, court cases, and economic developments.
• Databank Interactive charts and visualizations for 1,000+ economic indicators, providing data-driven research tools for economics and finance researchers.
• Caselaw Database of landmark legal cases across UK, US, Australia, and Canada, connected to expert analysis and academic commentary.
• Modules University-level educational modules mapped to expert video content and academic papers, enabling structured course delivery with multimedia resources for higher education teaching.
• Faculti Mobile App Mobile applications for iOS and Android providing full access to the Faculti platform, including semantic search, expert clips, and citation tools on mobile devices.

Quantifiable outcome

• Discover insights across 250M+ peer-reviewed papers
• +1 more outcomes

Named customers10 records

Segments6 records

Ideal customer profiles2 records

Technology focussed Yes

API detail

Has API

Yes

API docs

API detail

Core technology

AI maturity

App detail

AI capability5 records

Feature5 records

Partnerships

Two partnerships are on record, tiered core.

• CrossrefcoreTechnology or IntegrationFaculti is a member of Crossref and registers DOIs for research insights, enabling long-term citation tracking and discoverability across universities, libraries, and research institutions worldwide.
• OCLCcoreTechnology or IntegrationFaculti is a member of OCLC and indexes content for long-term discovery across universities, libraries, and research institutions worldwide.

Scale indicators4 records

Recent moves6 records

Expansion highlights6 records

Others

• Crossref: Official DOI registration agency for scholarly publications and a Faculti integration partner. Adjacent infrastructure provider that enables Faculti's DOI-backed citations and is referenced as a peer ecosystem participant rather than a direct competitor.
• OCLC: Global library cooperative providing shared technology services and the WorldCat catalog. Functions as a Faculti integration partner for institutional indexing rather than a direct competitor in research discovery.

Direct peers

• ResearchGate: Social network for scientists and researchers to share, discover, and discuss research papers. Competes with Faculti for researcher mindshare and offers overlapping discovery and citation-tracking functionality.
• Connected Papers: Visualization tool that creates a graph of papers related to a given research paper to help researchers explore the literature. Directly competes with Faculti's Citation Map feature for citation-network discovery.
• Academia.edu: Platform for academics to share and discover research papers, with features for following researchers and tracking impact. Directly comparable horizontal research-discovery platform targeting scholars and students like Faculti.
• Semantic Scholar: AI-powered academic search engine that helps researchers discover and understand scientific literature using semantic understanding. Directly overlaps with Faculti's semantic search and Ask capabilities across peer-reviewed papers.

Broad incumbents

• Google Scholar: Free web search engine for scholarly literature maintained by Google. Dominant incumbent in research discovery with comparable citation-tracking and paper-indexing capabilities at massive scale.
• JSTOR: Large-scale digital library providing access to academic journals, books, and primary sources across disciplines. Established incumbent in academic content access with overlapping institutional licensing model targeting universities.

Emerging players

• Perplexity: AI-powered answer engine that synthesizes information from web sources with citations. Emerging competitor in the AI-research-Q&A category where Faculti's Ask product also operates.
• Elicit: AI research assistant that helps researchers find, read, and synthesize academic papers conversationally. Competes with Faculti's Ask feature and Citation Map in the AI-powered literature review workflow.

Market position

Strengths4 records

Weaknesses4 records

Competitive moat4 records

Key risks5 records

Key highlights6 records

Customer concentration

• Xx.com/Facultinet
• Facebookfacebook.com/faculti

Revenue estimate

Valuation estimate

Number of profiles

Profiles1 record

Funding overview

Funding rounds

Investors

Funding detail is available on the Subscription and Enterprise plan.Contact sales →

M&A

Investments

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