The Silverchair AI Lab is an innovative experimentation space where we can bring prototypes to our clients quickly, testing their effectiveness and ensuring they are helping publishers achieve their goals, from improving user experience to protecting the value of content in an evolving knowledge ecosystem. The AI Lab transforms experimentation into production-ready solutions through a collaborative methodology that puts publishers in control of their AI journey. Working in hands-on environments, publishing teams can test models, tune parameters, and simulate real-world workflows before committing to production—an approach that has already driven real market successes from ScholarOne to the Silverchair Platform.
Read more about these offerings and follow our progress via blog updates below.
Discovery Bridge
Agentic search pathways
The Discovery Bridge enables researchers to access scholarly content directly through AI assistants while preserving subscription boundaries and institutional access controls. Leveraging Model Context Protocol (MCP), agentic AI assistants can search scholarly content by way of users’ natural language queries, providing seamless access to the full-text content directly within existing AI workflows. By integrating with existing entitlement systems, the Discovery Bridge not only extends the value of publisher content to existing users, but also unlocks new future revenue opportunities through consumption-based licensing and corporate content bundles
Dynamic Discovery
Find What Matters, Faster
Dynamic Discovery transforms how researchers connect with scholarly content on the Silverchair Platform. It delivers more relevant results more quickly while strengthening publishers’ brands and showcasing the full value of their collections. Built on advanced RAG (retrieval-augmented generation) technology, Dynamic Discovery understands researchers’ questions in context. Instead of relying on perfect keywords, users can ask questions naturally and receive the most relevant articles, books, and conference papers with clear explanations of why each source was selected.
ScholarOne AI Playground
Evaluate & Experiment, Together
Silverchair has expanded our successful AI Playground to ScholarOne Manuscripts for active experimentation with editors and publishers. We’re working directly with a select group of development partners to explore areas of potential AI support that are most impactful for editors and editorial office staff throughout the publishing process. This user-friendly environment allows publishers and editors to discover, stress-test, and hone when and where to leverage AI in their workflows and informs Silverchair’s future product development.
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How AI is Transforming Platform Strategy: Watch Silverchair CTO Stuart Leitch’s 2025 Platform Strategies talk about how AI is revolutionizing software development. As models become increasingly capable in domains like mathematics and programming, humans may be writing only a small fraction of code at progressive companies within five years. On publishing platforms, AI is transforming user experiences through enhanced workflows, discovery tools, and new capabilities, while also disrupting traditional traffic patterns as users rely on AI agents to search and synthesize research literature. This dual-sided AI transformation—affecting both platform development and user interaction—raises fundamental questions about the future positioning of scholarly publishing platforms.