Academic researchers are often struggling to present complex ideas based on dozens or hundreds of sources. Researchers in labs often produce their own open-source tools, relying on the community and grant funding to accelerate their research. Educators too need to communicate and collaborate with wide audiences. Horizon keeps the needs of researchers and educators in mind through managing source documents and citations, annotations and more.

Researchers can move beyond ad-hoc data management and build normalized datasets from online sources, closing the loop between engaging with literature, annotating and making notes, storing and organizing insights, and publishing. The Horizon data marketplace enables open-source sharing not only of datasets but of specific models, making verification of published results transparent.

Horizon was used by researchers working in energy geopolitics policy to provide an interactive guide to their research paper--highlighting distinct geopolitical actors, providing interactive maps showing the footprint of international organizations, and presenting key events on a timeline, with citations automatically linking entities in their research paper to relevant data points--lifting their text-only paper presentation to an interactive experience with automation.