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StepSphere

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The AI Workspace of Scientific Steps Group

Your research, one sphere.

StepSphere is the AI Workspace of Scientific Steps Group (SSG): an AI-powered research workspace. Find and verify research, analyze your data, inspect your draft, and build your presentation, all in one place. All services are paid, pay per use, with no subscription.

The four tools

  • Research Navigator: Find, verify, and organize the research behind your work.
    • One package covers one research topic.
    • Accepted files: Word (.docx), PDF, TXT, MD.
    • Up to 10 files, 20 MB each.
    • The AI can read up to about 20,000 words from each file. Longer files are read up to that limit only.
    • Text and tables are read. Images and figures are not read. Scanned PDFs are not supported.
    • 4 rounds, each question up to about 650 words. You name your topic before the first round; later questions and files must stay within it.
    • Unused rounds expire after 14 days.
  • Statistics Studio: Upload your data. Ask your question. Get publication-ready statistics.
    • One package covers one study.
    • Accepted files: CSV, TSV, Excel (.xlsx, .xls).
    • Up to 5 files, 20 MB each. Upload all the files of your study before your first question: files are locked after it.
    • Up to 200,000 rows and 100 columns per file; up to 12 sheets per Excel workbook.
    • How your data is read: the AI sees your column names, data types and a small sample of rows to plan the analysis. All calculations run on your full data.
    • 3 questions, each up to about 650 words, all on the same data.
    • Unused questions expire after 7 days.
  • Draft Inspector: Find the weak spots in your manuscript before you submit.
    • One package covers one manuscript.
    • Accepted files: Word (.docx), PDF, TXT, MD. One manuscript per inspection.
    • Up to 25 pages (about 12,500 words), 20 MB.
    • The AI reads the whole manuscript text. Text and tables are read. Images and figures are not read. Scanned PDFs are not supported.
    • 1 inspection + 1 re-inspection of the revised version of the same manuscript.
    • An unused inspection or re-inspection expires after 14 days.
  • Presentation Studio: Turn your paper or idea into a presentation.
    • One package covers one presentation.
    • Accepted source files: Word (.docx), PDF, TXT, MD. Up to 5 files, 20 MB each.
    • Up to about 10,000 words of content in total.
    • Up to 25 slides, up to 8 AI images, 2 regenerations of the same presentation (no new content, files or title).
    • An unused presentation or regeneration expires after 14 days.
    • Text and tables are read. Images and figures in your files are not read.

All services are paid, pay per use.

AI service notice: StepSphere's results are generated by artificial intelligence. They can contain errors and must be checked by you.

Independent of SSG journals: Using StepSphere, or not using it, has no effect on submission, peer review, or editorial decisions at any SSG journal.

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