Good questions are everywhere.
Clear research priorities are not.
Research Magnet connects credible question-raisers with researchers who can develop them — turning scattered, unanswered questions into tractable hypotheses with clear support, constraints, and attribution.
“What is the dose–response relationship between urban green space and anxiety outcomes in adolescents?”
“Which household retrofit interventions have the highest emissions reduction per dollar in mid-income countries?”
“Does peer-led financial literacy reduce predatory lending uptake in underserved communities?”
The Process
From signal to study
A structured pipeline that turns raw, important questions into research-ready hypotheses.
A question surfaces
Someone with domain credibility — a researcher, policymaker, clinician, community leader — publishes an important unanswered question. They describe why it matters and what context they can offer.
AI validates and maps it
AI assesses why the question matters, checks the extent of prior research, flags potential constraints and replication needs, and clusters it with related questions from the same knowledge frontier.
Researchers develop it
Researchers with relevant expertise can claim questions, develop hypotheses, propose methods, and collaborate — with attribution tracked throughout. The question-raiser stays involved as a key collaborator.
Hypotheses reach readiness
Questions evolve into structured, tractable research proposals — with documented support, constraints, contributor credits, and a clear path from question to study design.
Who it's for
Questions come from everywhere
Important questions don't only live in academia. Research Magnet welcomes credible signalers from any domain.
Academics
Publish your frontier questions
Share the unanswered questions in the final notes of your papers, your conference discussions, or your grant rejections. Give your intellectual signal the reach it deserves.
Industry & Policy
Bridge practice and research
You encounter real-world questions that academics haven't studied yet. Surface them with your contextual authority and connect them to researchers who can help.
Community Groups
Make your questions count
Communities have lived experience of problems that research hasn't touched. Research Magnet gives your questions credibility infrastructure and connects them to the right researchers.
Curious Minds
Ask without credentials
You don't need a title to raise an important question. Submit questions openly — AI will help assess their merit, and the community can validate or develop them further.
AI-Assisted
Intelligence that works
before the sprint
AI doesn't replace researchers — it prepares the ground so humans can do their most meaningful work.
Why it matters — validated
AI assesses the significance of a question against the broader literature, helping surface which questions have the most potential impact across disciplines.
Uncharted waters mapped
AI scans existing literature to identify where a question sits — fully unstudied, partially explored, or ripe for replication — so researchers can orient their work appropriately.
Constraint and contributor flagging
AI identifies methodological constraints, ethical considerations, and potential expert contributors — structuring questions before human collaboration begins.
Theme clustering
Raw questions from papers, reports, and discussions are clustered into emerging research themes — revealing patterns humans might miss across fragmented sources.
Sprint preparation
AI organises raw question harvests — from paper appendices, final notes, and interviews — so that human sprint sessions start with structured, prioritised information.
Method suggestion
Based on a question's domain, existing evidence, and constraints, AI suggests possible research methodologies — giving researchers a starting scaffold, not a predetermined path.
The bigger picture
A future where no important question goes unanswered
Right now, countless important questions are buried in paper footnotes, conference notes, and field reports — never reaching the researchers who could address them.
Research Magnet is building the infrastructure for a more intentional research ecosystem: one where question-raising is as valued as question-answering, where attribution follows ideas through their entire lifecycle, and where sprints of human expertise are focused on the most important frontiers.
We start with the question. The rest follows.
Questions attract evidence, hypotheses, methods, and people
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deserves an answer?
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