Synthesize papers into a tight literature review

Literature reviews stall when synthesis happens in a chat window and the actual document lives somewhere else. You end up with a table in Google Docs, quotes in a notebook, and a Word file that's three days behind.

Step 1 — Import your sources

Upload PDFs directly. Documatch preserves headings, tables, and footnotes where the ingest pipeline can read them. Start with the papers you'll cite most — you can add more without rebuilding the review.

Step 2 — Build a comparison scaffold

Ask for a structured table: research question, method, sample size, key finding, limitation. Scope the request to selected sections so the model doesn't invent columns you didn't ask for.

• Highlight the methods section in each paper before asking for a row summary.
• Request page references in brackets — reject hunks that lack citations.
• Keep one table per theme; merge later once rows are verified.

Step 3 — Draft the narrative

With the table accepted, ask for a synthesis paragraph that groups studies by agreement and tension — not chronological summary. Review each hunk: graduate committees notice when a "finding" wasn't in the source.

Export to DOCX with your department template. The table and prose stay linked in one file — no 2 a.m. paste marathon before the deadline.