About xRead

xRead is dedicated to making academic research easier, faster, and smarter. Our mission is to empower students, researchers, and professionals with AI-driven tools for citation extraction, validation, and summarization in Microsoft Word, with paid plans for deeper reasoning when you need it.

Our Mission

We believe that high-quality research should be accessible and manageable for everyone. Reading through long reference sections or verifying every inline citation breaks flow. xRead leverages the latest in AI and natural language processing to help you organize, understand, and authenticate your academic sources seamlessly.

Our Team

xRead is built by a passionate team of researchers, developers, and educators who understand the real-world challenges of academic work. We are deeply committed to transparency, privacy, and continuous improvement shaped by user feedback.

Technology

xRead uses AI providers and scholarly services such as OpenAlex, and where configured Semantic Scholar and SerpAPI (xRead seat only). The Microsoft Word add-in loads its task pane from xread.io and reads the active document only in Word. Text is sent to our API only when you invoke a feature, not silently in the background. See Plans for Basic, credit packs, your own API key, and the xRead seat.

Installing xRead

Microsoft Word: The add-in UI is hosted at https://www.xread.io/dist/ for organizations that centrally deploy Office add-ins. Ask IT or Support for manifest-based deployment. Sign in, then open My xRead → Plan to subscribe or top up. A public AppSource listing will be linked here when it is ready.