ContributionArc maps a scholarly conversation, finds the gap only you can fill, and engineers your argument — so writing is the last step, not the first.
For graduate students & professors · built on a structured, end-to-end method
Most tools teach writing. ContributionArc helps you map a scholarly conversation, locate the gap only you can fill, and engineer the argument before a single paragraph is drafted.
Where does this sit in my own work?
Before mapping the field, map yourself. Your ContributionArc — the recurring themes, through-line, and open threads of your prior work — becomes the baseline this paper advances.
ORCID · OpenAlex
Who is talking, and about what?
Ingest the literature and surface the major schools of thought, key authors, dominant theories, points of agreement and dispute, and emerging trends.
OpenAlex · Semantic Scholar · Zotero
How does the reasoning actually hold together?
Decompose each position into claims, evidence, and assumptions. Rate how well each claim is supported and find the concepts that bridge multiple theories.
Semantic Scholar · Crossref
What can I say that hasn't been said?
Detect the six kinds of research gap across the lattice and rank the five most promising opportunities for an original contribution.
OpenAlex · Semantic Scholar · arXiv / PubMed
What, precisely, is my contribution?
Draft your own one-sentence contribution claim, then have Claude pressure-test it against the chosen gap — the claim stays yours; Claude critiques and asks the questions a committee would.
OpenAlex · Semantic Scholar
How do I argue it?
You architect the argument — a central claim and the supporting claims that establish it — and Claude pressure-tests the logic: whether the supports hold, what's missing, and which counterarguments you must answer.
Zotero · Crossref
How does this advance my body of work?
Re-map your personal ContributionArc with this new contribution inside it — what it bolsters, extends, synthesizes, or complicates among your own prior work, and how it moves your program forward.
ORCID · OpenAlex
Where, exactly, did I land in the field?
Rebuild the field positioning map using the actual thesis you defended — the earned position, diffed against the rough placement you started from in Phase 01.
OpenAlex · Semantic Scholar
Now I write.
Draft each section with real-time margin guidance that ties every paragraph back to the architecture you engineered.
Overleaf · Zotero · Crossref
Drop in your sources and ContributionArc extracts the schools of thought, key authors, dominant theories, and points of dispute — then draws them as a living concept map you can interrogate.
ContributionArc orchestrates best-in-class models — each used where it genuinely excels, not interchangeably. Every call runs server-side and is logged for cost and quality.
Claude
Reasoning, gap discovery, margin guidance
OpenAI
Embeddings & semantic source search
Perplexity
Live literature discovery
Gemini
Long-context paper ingestion
Tavus
Conversational committee personas
“The hardest part of a dissertation was never the writing. It was knowing what I could say that hadn’t already been said.”
The problem ContributionArc was built to solve
