Emmanuel Tsekleves

The admin around your PhD would cost over $2k a term.

You do it for free.

I’m a professor and doctoral examiner, running a study on part-time and online doctoral candidates.

Chasing missing DOIs. Cleaning up your reference library. Building a literature matrix from a pile of abstracts.

None of it is the actual thinking. It just eats your evenings.

I costed it on my own project: about 10 hours a week over a term. At research-assistant rates, that’s nearly $2,780 of work I was doing myself, for nothing.

First I tried Zotero’s own duplicate finder. It missed anything with a slightly different title, and still left every missing DOI to fix by hand.

So I gave that layer to Viktor, an AI employee in Teams.

He audited the library, cross-referenced the missing DOIs against public records and built the synthesis matrix from the abstracts.

Our ethics approval forbids sharing participant data with commercial AI. So Viktor never saw a word of it. Not one interview, not one transcript. Public metadata only.

The admin, never the research.

What’s the one PhD admin job you’d hand over tomorrow?

Try free at @viktor_com. $100 in credits. Full link in my first reply.

Peer review took 100 million unpaid hours in 2020.

It's why your first paper waits months.

AI found 23 papers for my lit review. None fit.

It took 4 more Agent tasks to find out why. With unlimited Agent usage on SciSpace, I could keep asking.

The 4-question check I now run on every AI search, in a thread ↓

80 citations made my literature review worse.

2 highlighters showed me why.

English is my second language. Writing is hard.

But I won't let AI rewrite my 130+ papers.

Many of you have told me the same fear. You polish a paper with an AI grammar tool, and then a detector flags it as AI.