Finding a supervisor and reviewing literature are the two biggest time sinks for any thesis student — bachelor's, master's, or PhD. GradLens automates both — completely.
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Students writing a thesis — bachelor's, master's, or PhD — spend 3–4 weeks cold-emailing professors with little response, then another 1–2 weeks manually searching databases and copy-pasting papers into a spreadsheet — before writing a single sentence of their actual thesis.
Supervisor Search — One-time €24.99
Replaces 3–4 weeks of manual outreach prep
Paste your department's faculty page URL and upload your CV. The agent scans up to 40 professor profiles, scores each one against your research background, and writes a personalized outreach email for every strong match — ready to send.
What you get:
€24.99
one-time · 3 searches included
How it works
Paste your faculty page URL
Any department "People" or "Staff" page works — e.g. https://www.ce.cit.tum.de/en/ias/people/
Upload your CV
PDF, up to 10 MB. We extract your background, skills, and prior research automatically.
Agent runs for 3–6 minutes
Fetches up to 40 professor profiles, scores each against your CV, filters to the best matches.
Review results and send
Browse ranked professor cards, read the AI reasoning, edit the draft email if you like, and hit send.
Time saved: Most students spend 3–4 weeks researching professors and drafting emails. This runs in under 6 minutes.
What you get per run
Papers from 5 databases, searched simultaneously
OpenAlex, PubMed, Semantic Scholar, arXiv, and CrossRef — no manual exports, no switching tabs
Smart deduplication across all sources
Papers found in multiple databases are merged automatically — by DOI, then by ID, then by title. No duplicate reading.
AI relevance screening for every paper
Each paper gets a relevance score (1–10) against your specific topic. High / Medium / Low tiers so you know exactly what to prioritize.
Research gap analysis
The synthesis explicitly identifies what the existing literature does not cover — the gaps your thesis can address.
Thesis proposal-ready narrative (500–800 words)
A structured synthesis covering: literature landscape, key themes and findings, research gaps and future directions, and methodological observations. Ready to paste into your proposal.
Downloadable evidence table (ZIP)
All included papers with title, authors, year, journal, DOI, abstract, and relevance score — structured and exportable.
Time saved: Searching, deduplicating, screening, and writing a narrative takes 1–2 weeks manually. This runs in under 10 minutes.
Literature Review — €17.99/month
From topic to thesis-ready literature review in 10 minutes
Enter your research topic and keywords. The agent searches five academic databases simultaneously, deduplicates all results, screens every paper for relevance using AI, and produces a structured narrative that identifies research gaps and future directions — the exact content you need for a thesis proposal.
What would normally take 1–2 weeks:
GradLens does all of it in under 10 minutes.
€17.99
per month · cancel anytime · 15 reviews/mo
Searches 5 academic databases simultaneously — no manual exports
Sample output
Supervisor Finder — professor card
Prof. Dr. Anna Weber
Chair of Machine Learning · TU Munich
Why she fits: Prof. Weber's current work on cross-lingual transfer learning directly aligns with your CV focus on multilingual NLP. Her group has open thesis slots this semester and accepts external applicants.
Draft outreach email
Dear Prof. Weber,
I am a master's student at TUM (Computer Science, graduating July 2026) writing about cross-lingual transfer in low-resource settings. Your recent work on zero-shot multilingual prompting is directly related to the gap I want to explore…
[Full 180-word email generated — edit and send]
Literature Review — paper entry & synthesis excerpt
Attention Is All You Need
9 / 10Vaswani et al. · 2017 · NeurIPS · via Semantic Scholar
Relevance: Foundational transformer architecture directly relevant to your topic. Cited by all subsequent cross-lingual models in this review.
Research gap identified
“None of the 34 reviewed studies address zero-shot transfer in languages with fewer than 100k training tokens. This gap is most acute in African and Southeast Asian language families — a tractable contribution for a master's thesis with access to standard compute.”
Illustrative example — your results use your actual CV and research topic.
Why this exists
“I was a master's student at TUM with a clear research direction but no supervisor and a 6-week deadline. I built these tools for myself. The Thesis Finder got me a supervisor in 3 days. The Lit Review saved two weeks of database searching before I wrote a word of my thesis. I'm publishing them so other students don't have to start from scratch.”
— Emre, MSc student · Technical University of Munich
FAQ
Any university that has a department 'People' or 'Staff' page online — which is essentially all of them. TUM, LMU, KIT, ETH Zürich, University of Amsterdam, UCL, and hundreds more. If you can paste the URL, the agent can scan it.
The Supervisor Finder scans up to 40 professor profiles in 3–6 minutes. The Literature Review searches 5 databases, deduplicates, screens, and writes your synthesis in under 10 minutes. You'll get an email when results are ready.
No. Your CV is used only during the run and deleted immediately after. It is never stored, indexed, or used for any other purpose. GradLens is fully GDPR compliant and EU-hosted.
Yes — any time, no questions asked. Go to Account → Manage subscription. Your access continues until the end of the billing period you already paid for.
Yes. The agent searches OpenAlex, PubMed, Semantic Scholar, arXiv, and CrossRef — covering STEM, social sciences, humanities, medicine, and more. Any topic with academic papers in these databases will return results.