Claims

What science
actually shows.

The scientific literature - structured into claims and evidence AI can reason over.

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Why Claims is needed

$3T1
spent on R&D every year
300M
scientific papers —
humanity’s most valuable knowledge
0%
in a structured form machines can reason over
Frontier models hallucinate references
RAG systems parrot what authors say
Semantic similarity can't weigh evidence

Claims will enable AI to do precise scientific reasoning.

The team

Built by researchers working across scientific replication, mechanism design and AI-for-science.

Philipp Koellinger, Claims co-founder

Philipp Koellinger

Professor of Economics, VU Amsterdam. Published in Nature and Science; helped resolve the replication crisis in his field.
Christian Roessler, Claims co-founder

Christian Roessler

Professor of Economics, CSU East Bay.
Game theory and mechanism design in leading economics journals; built the framework for optimal incentive mechanisms on Bittensor.
Ogban Ugot, Claims co-founder

Ogban Ugot

AI Engineer.
Built SciWeave with Philipp —
an AI for science that beats frontier models on the Nature-published ScholarQA benchmark.

The product

From paper to answer.

Paper
1T+ words of prose
Claim
SubjectSNP rs9320913
Predicateexplains
Object0.022% of variance in years of schooling
structured, auditable
Evidence
discoveryn = 101,069
replicationn = 25,490
every source linked
Credibility
confidence interval
High
know what to trust
Answer
ask("genetic effects on education?")
rs9320913: +0.022% variance
confidence: HIGH
source: Science 340, 2013
decision-grade, via API & MCP

The pipeline runs on every paper in the literature.

The miner competition

Open competition continuously improves data quality.Data quality wins this market.

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The market

Two markets. One product.

$20–50B1
R&D intelligence & evidence work
2–5% of $3T annual R&D in evidence-intensive sectors, growing ~5%/yr
$5–9B2,3,4
AI training data
frontier-lab spend in 2025, doubling yearly

The mechanism design.

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Recognition

Winner, Proof of Pitch 2026.

Four teams pitched at the Louvre in Paris. The judges shortlisted two, then the Bittensor community decided the winner by pledging in a public head to head.6

525 TAORaised in total
184 TAO5Pledged live on stage
June 2026Louvre, Paris
Philipp Koellinger presenting the closing slide of the Claims pitch at the LouvreSN111 Claims · Full Proof of Pitch speechYouTube →