Antlect is organised around a small number of concepts that compose together. Understanding them makes everything else in the platform predictable.
These are the concepts you work with inside the Decision Intelligence Terminal, the top layer of the platform architecture. If you have read about Antlect on the website, this table connects the two vocabularies:
Projects
A project is the top-level container for an investigation. It holds every query you run, every thread of analysis, and every report you write on a topic. Projects are private to you and appear in your sidebar for quick switching.
Use one project per line of enquiry: for example, one project for a sector scan and a separate one for a due-diligence deep dive.
Queries
A query is a research question posed in plain language. When you run a query, Antlect analyses it across its knowledge of researchers, institutions, funding, publications, patents, and clinical trials.
Queries can be tuned before running:
- Dimension: the primary entity type you want the answer organised around (people, institutions, funding bodies).
- Metrics: how results are ranked and measured (publication output, citation impact, funding volume, collaboration breadth).
Threads
Every query runs inside a thread: a live, inspectable trace of the analysis. The thread panel shows each step as it executes, with timing, and keeps the full history of runs in the project so you can revisit how an answer was produced.
Results
A completed query produces a structured result set with multiple views:
Artifacts
Individual findings inside a result (a ranked table, a chart, an entity profile) are artifacts. Artifacts can be selected and saved to the Library or placed directly into a report, so a finding you generated once stays reusable.
Mind maps
A mind map structures an investigation visually, branching entities, questions, and findings alongside your threads and briefs in the same project. Maps save as editable data, so you reopen one and keep working rather than looking at a static picture.
Research briefs
A research brief is the deliverable, and what the app calls a report. The editor is a full rich-text environment with headings, tables, task lists, images, links, and interactive chart blocks. Briefs live inside their project, autosave as you write, and export to PDF.
How they fit together
A good rhythm: run queries in threads until the picture is clear, save the artifacts that matter, then assemble them into a brief at the end.
