LocalBridge

Who it is for

LocalBridge for researchers

If your day involves reading twenty papers to answer one question, the bottleneck is not the assistant. It is the twenty minutes spent assembling context before you can ask anything.

What slows researchers down

  • Copying abstracts one at a time loses which claim came from which paper.
  • Long PDFs blow past what you can paste into a single message.
  • By the time the context is assembled, the actual question has gone cold.

The workflow

  1. 1. Open every paper you are comparing in one window.
  2. 2. Send the whole set across with the source titles attached.
  3. 3. Ask for points of disagreement rather than a flat summary.

Pages researchers send most

  • Research papers: the abstract, section headings and body text of each paper page.
  • Wikipedia articles: the lead section, section headings and body text.
  • Forum threads: the original post and the visible replies in order.
  • News articles: the headline, byline, date and article body.

Common questions

Why would researchers need this rather than just pasting?
Pasting works for one page. The work described here is reading twenty papers to answer one question, which means the question only makes sense once several pages are in front of the assistant at the same time.
Does it work with the tools researchers already use?
It reads whatever your browser renders, so anything you can open in a Chrome tab and read yourself can be sent, including tools you are signed in to.
Is anything sent to LocalBridge servers?
No. Page text travels from your browser to the assistant you picked. We never receive it, and we do not keep copies.
What does it cost?
A one-time licence, not a subscription. You bring your own Claude or ChatGPT account, on whatever plan you already have.

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