Alright, let’s cut through the hype. Used Iris.ai for six months to map literature for my PhD in computational biology. The data is messy, and the tool is… fine. If you like paying premium for a glorified keyword matcher with a nice UI.
The “contextual filtering” is basically a thesaurus on steroids—misses key papers unless you feed it the exact jargon their model was trained on. Found more relevant studies with a well-crafted Boolean search on PubMed. Their “research assistant” feature? Slower than me just skimming abstracts. And the pricing lock-in is a joke. Try exporting your workspace in a usable format—good luck.
Attached my usage logs and a comparison sheet of papers it found vs. my manual search. The overlap is underwhelming. For the cost, you’re better off with a Zotero plugin and some patience. Or just learn how to search properly.
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