Analu Companion

Analu Companion – your academic assistant on every page

Analu Companion turns any webpage into a study and writing ally.
Highlight a passage, click the Analu button, and get instant academic help without leaving what you’re reading.

Designed especially for master’s and PhD students, Analu helps you understand complex texts, extract key ideas, and connect them to your own research – directly on top of articles, PDFs in the browser, reports, blogs, institutional documents, and more.
How it works

Highlight any text on the web
Select a paragraph, abstract, excerpt or definition on any webpage.

Click the Analu Companion bubble
A floating Analu icon appears next to your selection. Click it to open the Analu panel.

Get instant academic help
Analu reads the selected passage and responds with explanations, summaries, and suggestions tailored to your topic.
You can ask questions like:
“How could I include these ideas in my dissertation about AI in Education?”

Continue the journey in deeper tools (optional)
When it makes sense, Analu can suggest links to open the selected passage in academicum.ai tools such as Article Reviewer, Biblio Format or Intelligent Tutor – so you can continue working on that text with more depth.

What Analu Companion can help you with

Clarify difficult passages
Get clearer explanations of dense theoretical texts, methods, or results without losing your reading flow.

Summarize and extract key ideas
Turn long paragraphs into concise summaries that highlight what really matters for your research question.

Connect reading to your dissertation or thesis
Ask how a passage relates to your topic, how you might frame it in your literature review, or how to incorporate it into a chapter.

Refine language and argumentation
Get suggestions to improve clarity, coherence and academic tone in the way you describe or discuss the ideas you’re reading.

Bridge to the academicum.ai ecosystem (optional)
Follow suggested links when you want to go further – for example, opening the selected snippet in:

Article Reviewer for deeper, peer-review style feedback

Biblio Format for reference and citation formatting

Intelligent Tutor for step-by-step explanations and rewriting

Built for real academic work

Analu Companion was created with the reality of graduate students in mind:

You read in many tabs, sources and formats.

You don’t want to constantly copy–paste text into separate tools.

You need to move quickly from reading → understanding → connecting → writing.

The extension keeps Analu “by your side” as you browse, so you can transform raw reading into insights, notes, and draft material for your dissertation or thesis.
Bilingual interface (PT/EN)

The extension interface adapts automatically to your browser language:

In Portuguese (pt), Analu speaks and guides you in PT-BR.

In English and other languages, Analu uses English by default.

This makes Analu Companion useful both for local literature and for international papers, especially in fields where English is dominant.
Works together with academicum.ai

Analu Companion is part of the academicum.ai ecosystem – a learning and writing environment focused on university students and researchers.

You can use the Companion on its own to:

highlight text,

ask questions,

receive explanations and suggestions right on the page.

If you already use academicum.ai, you can optionally follow the links that Analu suggests to continue your work inside tools like Article Reviewer, Biblio Format or Intelligent Tutor. The extension doesn’t force you to switch context – it simply opens doors when you want to go deeper.
Privacy and data

Analu Companion focuses on your study flow, not on tracking you.

The extension uses local storage only for a simple session identifier (to keep continuity of the conversation).

Text you send to Analu (including selected passages) is transmitted securely to the academicum.ai backend to generate the answers you see.

No browsing history, passwords or form fields are read or stored.

For full details, please see the Privacy Policy linked in the Chrome Web Store listing.
Who is Analu Companion for?

Master’s and PhD students

Undergraduate students working on final projects or monographs

Researchers reading articles, reports and technical documents

Anyone who needs to understand, connect and write about what they read online

If you live inside academic texts and web documents, Analu Companion is there to make the journey lighter, clearer and more productive – one highlighted passage at a time.