{
  "name": "Research assistant service for authors and academics",
  "slug": "author-research-assistant",
  "category": "Creators & content",
  "summary": "Sell verified-citation research support to nonfiction authors, grad students, and academics: bibliography checks, literature briefs, and source verification, with an engine that refuses to invent references.",
  "updated": "2026-07-10",
  "human_page": "https://pulse.theaslangroupllc.com/fieldguide/author-research-assistant/",
  "hub": "https://pulse.theaslangroupllc.com/fieldguide/",
  "engines": [
    {
      "vertical": "citepulse",
      "name": "CitePulse",
      "base_url": "https://citepulse.theaslangroupllc.com",
      "openapi": "https://citepulse.theaslangroupllc.com/openapi.json",
      "llms_txt": "https://citepulse.theaslangroupllc.com/llms.txt",
      "endpoints": [
        {
          "path": "/api/ref-check",
          "price": "$0.15",
          "description": "Bibliography verification (flagship)"
        },
        {
          "path": "/api/literature-brief",
          "price": "$0.25",
          "description": "Grounded literature synthesis"
        },
        {
          "path": "/api/topic-scan",
          "price": "$0.20",
          "description": "Rising-topic research scan"
        },
        {
          "path": "/api/paper",
          "price": "$0.05",
          "description": "Single-paper lookup"
        },
        {
          "path": "/api/author",
          "price": "$0.10",
          "description": "Author metrics"
        }
      ]
    }
  ],
  "payment": {
    "protocol": "x402",
    "currency": "USDC",
    "networks": [
      "base",
      "solana"
    ],
    "pricing_note": "Prices shown are the live public catalog — the same wholesale sheet agents pay per call. No subscription.",
    "human_onramp": "Self-serve starter key (no crypto wallet needed): https://pulse.theaslangroupllc.com/fieldguide/start/?bp=author-research-assistant — scoped key with a $0.25 trial balance; top up by card (Stripe) or USDC. API: POST https://pulse.theaslangroupllc.com/api/wholesale/register {contact, scope: \"citepulse\"}. Email fallback: info@theaslangroupllc.com with subject \"Starter key: author-research-assistant\"."
  },
  "setup_steps": [
    "Verify the bibliography of one published book in your field and write up what you found (politely). That document is your calling card.",
    "Price per reference batch and per brief, flat, published on the site.",
    "Post your integrity policy (verification and research, no ghostwriting) where clients can see it.",
    "Pitch three small presses and two dissertation-coaching services; they have recurring verification needs and no staff for it."
  ],
  "licensing_notes": [
    "None. The professional line that matters is academic integrity: you verify, research, and map sources; you don’t ghostwrite student work that will be submitted as their own. State that policy on your site; the clients you want will trust you more for it."
  ],
  "compliance": {
    "earnings": "Educational content. No earnings claims or income projections; results depend on operator effort, market, and pricing.",
    "posture": "Flat-fee self-help document preparation where documents are involved: the customer signs and files; the operator never represents clients or works on contingency.",
    "sensitive_category": false
  },
  "publisher": {
    "name": "The Aslan Group LLC",
    "contact": "info@theaslangroupllc.com"
  }
}