01
Discover
Literature discovery and source selection.
Search strategy, multilingual results, screening decisions and a recorded decision log for every included or excluded source.
Platform
A research environment organised around evidence, design and verification
SARAP structures the research lifecycle into six recorded stages. Each stage produces an artefact a supervisor or review committee can inspect: a screened source list, an evidence matrix, a research design, a referenced manuscript, a review record and an institutional completion record.
Platform at a glance
Six connected research stages
Output from one stage becomes input to the next. Nothing advances without a recorded researcher decision.
02
Analyze
Evidence extraction, structuring and research-gap analysis.
Evidence records with field-level provenance, evidence strength, themes and research gaps traceable back to the evidence they came from.
03
Develop
Research problem, objectives, questions, hypotheses and methodology.
A traceable design chain from evidence and gaps through to design, sampling and analysis plan, with suggested, draft and verified states.
04
Write
Evidence-grounded manuscript development with claims and citations.
Outline, drafting and a claim registry where each claim carries its supporting evidence, citation state and verification state.
05
Review
Research integrity, citation integrity and methodological consistency.
Inspection of the manuscript against evidence, claims, research questions and design — with findings recorded, not silently corrected.
06
Complete
Supervisor-governed research completion and institutional record.
A completion gate derived from recorded states, a supervisor final decision, and a structured institutional research record.
Evidence intelligence
Citation presence and evidence support are not the same thing
SARAP records evidence as structured objects rather than as quotations pasted into a document. Each evidence record keeps its source, its extracted fields and the provenance of each field, including fields the source does not report.
Evidence grounding
Claims reference recorded evidence, not generated prose.
Claim–citation alignment
A claim can be cited and still be unsupported; both states are visible.
Contradictory evidence
Evidence that opposes a claim is surfaced rather than dropped.
Insufficient evidence
Thin support is recorded as a finding for the researcher to resolve.
Source verification
Inclusion and exclusion decisions carry a recorded reason.
Metadata integrity
Missing or incomplete reference metadata is reported, not silently filled.
Evidence architecture
- Source
- Evidence record
- Claim
- Citation
- Manuscript
A citation records where a statement came from. Evidence support records whether the recorded evidence actually sustains it. SARAP keeps these two dimensions separate.
SARAP research lifecycle
- 01Discover
Literature discovery and source selection.
- 02Analyze
Evidence extraction, structuring and research-gap analysis.
- 03Develop
Research problem, objectives, questions, hypotheses and methodology.
- 04Write
Evidence-grounded manuscript development with claims and citations.
- 05Review
Research integrity, citation integrity and methodological consistency.
- 06Complete
Supervisor-governed research completion and institutional record.
Stages advance on recorded researcher and supervisor decisions — never automatically.
Research design intelligence
Research design as a traceable chain, not a template
SARAP develops the design objects that a doctoral or faculty project needs, each linked to the evidence and gaps behind it. Alternatives are presented for comparison so the methodological choice remains the researcher's.
- Research problem
- Research objective
- Research questions
- Hypotheses
- Conceptual framework
- Variables / constructs
- Research design
- Unit of analysis
- Population
- Sampling strategy
- Data sources
- Analysis plan
Governance principle
AI suggestion ≠ researcher decision
Suggested, draft and verified are distinct recorded states. An AI suggestion never becomes a final research decision automatically.
Writing & research integrity
Evidence-grounded research writing
Drafting works from a claim registry. Each claim carries its supporting evidence, its citation state and its verification state, so integrity checks inspect the manuscript against the project's own record.
Writing chain
EvidenceClaimCitationDraftVerification
Claim support
Whether recorded evidence sustains the statement.
Citation completeness
Whether the reference is present and complete.
Unsupported statements
Statements with no evidence record behind them.
Contradictory evidence
Recorded evidence pointing the other way.
Terminology consistency
Consistent use of constructs across the manuscript.
Methodological consistency
Manuscript claims consistent with the recorded design.
Research-question alignment
Whether sections answer the recorded questions.
Recorded findings
Findings are logged for the researcher, not auto-corrected.
Platform preview
Representative views from the SARAP research workspace
Structural previews of the current platform. Each corresponds to functionality available in the demo environment.
SARAP · Research Workspace
Research Workspace
Project context, lifecycle position, readiness and blockers in one persistent frame.
SARAP · Evidence Matrix
Evidence Matrix
Structured evidence records with field-level provenance and verification state.
SARAP · Research Design
Research Design
The traceable chain from evidence and gaps to design, sampling and analysis plan.
SARAP · Claims & Citations
Claims & Citations
A claim registry showing evidence support and citation completeness separately.
SARAP · Research Review
Research Review
Findings against evidence, claims, research questions and methodology.
SARAP · Institutional Record
Institutional Record
Completion gate, supervisor decision and the archived research record.
Build research on evidence.
Keep every decision traceable.
Explore how SARAP connects research evidence, academic reasoning, verification and institutional governance across the research lifecycle.