Undermind was founded in 2023 by Tom Hartke and Joshua Ramette, researchers with peer-reviewed publications and patents pending, and its team is based in San Francisco. Rather than returning a ranked keyword list, Undermind runs an agentic search process: it interprets a complex research question, iteratively explores the citation and topic space, reads candidate papers and reports how thoroughly the topic has been covered, so researchers can judge whether the search is exhaustive. The company presented the product publicly through Y Combinator in July 2024, positioning it as a tool for the deep literature discovery step that precedes a formal review. Pricing is freemium, with a free $0 tier and paid individual plans starting at $15 per month.
Funding
No funding round has been confirmed by a primary source; the company has not published funding details.