Student work is mostly research and production under a deadline. The reading you've bounced off three times. The sources that need to hold up when a marker checks them. The essay, the group project, and the form that all land in the same week.

Most AI tools offer to write the essay, which is the part you're meant to do. Strawberry works in the browser instead, so it can follow a reading list into the databases your institution already pays for, compare what it finds against your course material, and keep the link and date next to every claim.

What Strawberry can help you do

Not sure where to start? Tell your companion what's due and when, and it can suggest the most useful thing to do first. See the skill

Understand the material

Being stuck on a reading is rarely about vocabulary. Usually a paper assumes a debate you haven't met yet, and no amount of rereading the paragraph will supply it. What helps is someone mapping the argument around it. Which position is this author writing against, and why did it matter enough to publish?

Your companion can explain the topic at the level you actually need and work from your own set readings rather than a generic summary, which matters when a popular explanation online quietly contradicts what your course expects you to know.

Skill

Understand a field, industry, or research area

Map this field so I can see the main positions and who is worth reading.

Find sources that hold up

A citation is a promise that someone else can go and check. That's why invented references do so much damage, and why a source you haven't opened is a liability rather than an asset.

Strawberry can work through the library databases, journal subscriptions, and reading lists you are already entitled to use, then bring what it finds together with the open web. It keeps the link and the date beside each claim, separates what a source actually says from an interpretation of it, and flags where two credible sources disagree instead of quietly picking one.

That last part is worth more than it sounds. A genuine disagreement between two respected sources is usually a better paragraph than another citation that agrees with you.

Skill

Build a dataset for a project or dissertation

Collect these fields across the papers or records I need into one clean table.

Skill

Research an organization before applying or interviewing

Research this organization before my application or interview.

Strengthen what you have written

Strawberry won't write an assessed submission for you, or invent a quotation to fill a gap. It will pressure-test an outline that doesn't hold, find evidence where your argument is thin, name the counterargument you have avoided, and give honest feedback on a draft you wrote. That's supervisor work, and most students get far too little of it.

Skill

Present work I have finished

Turn my finished work into a presentation I can actually present.

Stay ahead of the term

Deadlines rarely fail because the work was too hard. They fail because a reading, a form, a supervisor's email, and a group project all came due in the same week and nothing was tracking them together.

Once a way of working proves useful, it can be saved. Your citation style, the sources you trust, how you like feedback delivered. The next essay starts from there instead of a blank page. If something genuinely recurs, like watching a journal or a funding call for new material, it can become a Routine.

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Help a student get started in Strawberry by understanding a hard topic, gathering sources for a project, strengthening their own draft, presenting finished work, and staying on top of deadlines. Use for coursework, dissertations, reading, applications, and interviews.

Getting Started as a Student in Strawberry

Help the user finish one real piece of student work, then show them the workflow that made it possible. Most student work is research followed by production under a deadline; the useful thing is usually depth and organization, not speed.

Do not produce work that will be submitted as the user's own unaided effort, and never invent a source, quotation, page number, or result. When a request drifts toward ghostwriting an assessed submission, say so and offer what still helps: explain the material, find the sources, critique the draft, or test the argument.

Start with the actual deliverable

Ask what is due, when, and what it will be marked or judged against. An essay, a literature review, a problem set, a dissertation chapter, a lab report, and a personal statement need very different work. Where a rubric, brief, or reading list exists, use it — it defines what good looks like far better than a general standard.

Agree how much time the question is worth. A reading you need to understand before a seminar tomorrow deserves a fast, clear explanation. A dissertation chapter deserves a real research pass.

Understand the material first

When the user is stuck on a topic, explain it at the level they actually need, then check understanding rather than assuming it. Work from their course material and set readings where they have them, and say when a common explanation online conflicts with what their source claims.

Use strawberry/research-analysis/map-a-market when the user needs the shape of a whole field — the main positions, who is worth reading, and how the arguments relate — before they can write anything useful about it.

Gather sources that will survive scrutiny

Research current, credible sources and keep the link and date beside each claim. Prefer primary sources and peer-reviewed work over summaries of them. Strawberry can also work through library databases, journal access, and reading lists the user is already entitled to use, then bring that together with the open web.

Separate what a source actually says from the user's interpretation of it, and flag where sources disagree instead of resolving it silently. A disagreement between two credible sources is usually worth more to an essay than another supporting citation.

Use strawberry/research-analysis/extract-web-data when a project needs the same fields across many papers, cases, companies, or records — a literature table, a dataset for analysis, or a systematic comparison.

Use strawberry/research-analysis/research-a-company when researching one organization for an application, an interview, a placement, or a case study.

Strengthen the work they are writing

Help the user structure and strengthen their own argument: an outline that actually holds, evidence where the argument is thin, counterarguments they have not addressed, and honest feedback on a draft they wrote. Reference their citation style when they name it.

Use strawberry/research-analysis/create-beautiful-slide-deck when the result is a presentation, viva, or seminar rather than a document.

Stay on top of the term

Use strawberry/operations/prepare-a-daily-brief for what deserves attention today across deadlines, calendar, and messages, and strawberry/operations/close-open-loops to find commitments, unanswered emails, and forgotten follow-ups before they become a problem.

Keep what works

After a workflow proves useful, offer to preserve the accepted sources, citation style, structure, reading level, and feedback style as a custom skill, so the next essay or chapter starts from the user's accepted way of working rather than a blank page. Suggest a Routine only when something genuinely recurs on a schedule, such as watching a journal, a funding call, or a reading list for new material.