AI research assistant

Most research is the same loop run dozens of times: ask a question, search the live web, open and read the best sources, pull out what matters, save it, then ask the next question that the answer raised. Doing this across browser tabs, notes apps and a separate AI chat is where hours leak away. MiyoMind collapses the loop into one conversation. You type a question, Miyo searches the current web and reads the pages, summarises what they actually say with links you can click, and keeps the thread of what you're investigating so the next question builds on the last.

Because MiyoMind lives inside WhatsApp, Telegram, Discord and a web dashboard, the research doesn't stay trapped at your desk. You can start a literature scan on your laptop, fire a follow-up question from your phone on the train, and come back to a thread that still remembers the whole investigation.

How does an AI research assistant work?

You ask in plain language; MiyoMind does the legwork and shows its sources. A research turn typically runs in five steps, all inside the same chat thread:

1. Live web search — Miyo queries the current web (not a frozen training snapshot) and returns findings with citations you can open.
2. Read and analyse — it reads the actual pages, and can read PDFs, reports and documents you send so the summary reflects the source, not a guess.
3. Summarise — it pulls out the specific claims, figures and quotes that answer your question, attributing each to its source.
4. Save — it commits the findings to long-term memory and can write them into a file or document you keep.
5. Follow up — you ask the next question and Miyo answers in context, because it remembers the previous turns of the investigation.

Under the hood, MiyoMind runs the open-source OpenClaw agent runtime, a model router called Hermes, and our own orchestration, memory and safety code. It draws on frontier models from OpenAI, Anthropic, Google, xAI and Alibaba and routes each step to a capable model. The point for you: you talk to one assistant named Miyo and it handles the rest.

What does a research workflow look like in chat?

Here are example messages you might type and what Miyo does in response. Notice how each question builds on the last — that continuity is the difference between an assistant and a search box.

You: What are the leading approaches to grid-scale battery storage in 2026? Search and cite sources.
Miyo: [searches the live web, reads top sources] Here are the leading approaches with citations: lithium iron phosphate (LFP), sodium-ion, flow batteries... [links]

You: Summarise the trade-offs of sodium-ion vs LFP in a short table.
Miyo: [compares the sources it just read] Cost, energy density, cold-weather performance, supply chain... [table]

You: I'll attach a PDF report — pull the cost-per-kWh figures and tell me how they compare to what you found.
Miyo: [reads the PDF] The report cites $X/kWh for LFP; that's in line with [source]. One figure differs: ...

You: Save the key findings and remind me Friday 9am to send a summary to my team.
Miyo: Saved to your research notes and created a one-off reminder for Friday 09:00. I'll ping you here.

The specific MiyoMind capabilities doing the work in that exchange: live web search with citations, reading and analysing a PDF you send, summarising sources, long-term memory of the findings, file creation for the saved notes, and a reminder that fires across your chat apps. You never left the conversation, and you never lost a citation.

Can it remember and recall past research?

Yes. MiyoMind has long-term memory of what matters to you and can recall past conversations, so an investigation isn't a single throwaway session. Tell it once that you're tracking a particular topic, competitor or thesis, and later you can ask "what did we find about sodium-ion costs last month?" and it surfaces the relevant earlier thread. This is what makes it useful for research that unfolds over days or weeks rather than a single sitting.

• Long-term memory keeps the facts, preferences and ongoing questions you've told it to remember.
• Recall of past conversations lets you pull up earlier findings by asking in plain language.
• Connectors let Miyo reach into tools you already use — Gmail, Google Drive, Notion and ~30 more via secure OAuth — so a finding can become a draft email or a saved note without a copy-paste detour.
• File creation and delivery means a summary, brief or dataset can leave the chat as an actual file.

Daily AI use has become mainstream, but most of that use is one-off questions in a blank chat box. A research assistant earns its keep by holding state — the citations, the documents, the open questions — so each session compounds instead of starting from zero.

Is it accurate and safe to research with?

MiyoMind is built to show its work and protect your data. Live search returns citations so you can verify any claim against the original source rather than trusting an unsourced answer — the right habit for any AI-assisted research. On the privacy side, every paid user gets a dedicated, sandboxed Docker container with no public internet egress and a read-only root filesystem, your integrations and memories are encrypted at rest with AES-256-GCM, and a 10-layer prompt-injection defence plus output scrubbing runs on every message. The free tier runs on a shared direct-agent path. As with any AI tool, treat summaries as a fast first pass and click through to sources for anything you'll publish or act on.

How much does an AI research assistant cost?

MiyoMind is credit-based and starts free, so you can test the research loop before paying. Credits meter actual model and tool usage, and a heavy search-and-read session uses more than a quick question.

Need more headroom mid-month? Credits also sell as top-up packs: 600 for $3, 2,000 for $10, 5,000 for $25 and 10,000 for $50. One credit is worth about $0.005 of value. There's nothing extra to install for chat — you use MiyoMind inside WhatsApp, Telegram or Discord, or the web dashboard in any browser, and no card is required to start on the free tier.