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Environmental impact and how we work

The practical choices we make when building ResearchRabbit and how we work as a small team.

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Written by Nathan Clarke
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We take a practical approach to environmental responsibility that reflects how ResearchRabbit operates today. We are a small team of 9 people, so we try to stay realistic about the scale of our impact and focus on practical choices in how we work. However, we still consciously do the best we can. 💪

Our focus is on thoughtful design choices, efficient systems, and avoiding unnecessary compute-heavy features.

ResearchRabbit does not use large language models to power its core recommendation and discovery systems. Instead, we use graph mathematics, old-school server infrastructure, and a little bit of pre-processed magic. ✨

What we currently do as a team

  • We prioritise remote work and flexible working to reduce commuting-related emissions.

  • We use shared office spaces when in-person collaboration is useful, rather than maintaining permanent private offices.

  • We support international and distributed hiring, which reduces the need for relocation and frequent long-distance travel.

  • We operate with digital workflows and do not rely on printing.

We build ResearchRabbit to support better research. This is why we prioritise efficient infrastructure and avoid adding resource-intensive features that do not clearly benefit researchers.

You can read more about how ResearchRabbit works here:
How we use AI

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