Elicit vs Duckie

Side-by-side comparison of AI visibility scores, market position, and capabilities

Elicit leads in AI visibility (55 vs 25)

Elicit

ChallengerResearch & Analytics

AI Research & Scientific Discovery

AI research assistant searching 138M+ academic papers with sentence-level citations. 2M+ researchers. Raised $33M. Founded 2023 (spun from Ought nonprofit). Private.

AI VisibilityBeta
Overall Score
C55
Category Rank
#1 of 1
AI Consensus
65%
Trend
stable
Per Platform
ChatGPT
49
Perplexity
63
Gemini
57

About

Elicit is an AI research assistant spun out in 2023 from Ought (a nonprofit founded in 2017) by CEO Andreas Stuhlmuller. Headquartered in Oakland, California. It has raised $33M total including a $22M Series A (February 2025). Investors include Fifty Years, Basis Set, and angels like Tom Preston-Werner (GitHub) and Jeff Dean (Google).

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Duckie

EmergingInfrastructure

IT Operations

SF YC W24 AI support agent builder at 80% resolution time reduction and 71% ticket deflection; $500K from a16z/Greylock/YC/Netflix competing with Intercom Fin for customer support AI workflow automation.

AI VisibilityBeta
Overall Score
D25
Category Rank
#18 of 68
AI Consensus
59%
Trend
stable
Per Platform
ChatGPT
33
Perplexity
19
Gemini
36

About

Duckie is a San Francisco-based AI customer support platform — backed by Y Combinator (W24) with $500,000 in funding from Y Combinator, Andreessen Horowitz, Greylock, KungHo Fund, Netflix, and 5 additional investors — providing customer support teams with an AI agent builder that translates existing support processes and workflows into predictable, reliable AI automation, achieving 80% reduction in resolution time and 71% ticket deflection for deployed teams. Founded in 2023 and targeting customer support leaders at growth-stage software companies, Duckie enables support teams to deploy AI agents in minutes without engineering dependency.

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AI Visibility Head-to-Head

55
Overall Score
25
#1
Category Rank
#18
65
AI Consensus
59
stable
Trend
stable
49
ChatGPT
33
63
Perplexity
19
57
Gemini
36
52
Claude
31
60
Grok
34

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