Sysrev

Spec sheet

What it does

Sysrev is a web application for collaborative and automated document review and structured data extraction.Read 15 Oct 2026 · linkedin.com

Purpose

Sysrev is a platform for data curation and systematic evidence review.Read 7 Oct 2026 · help.sysrev.com

Intended users

The maker describes Sysrev as suitable for researchers conducting systematic, scoping, and rapid reviews, including collaborative institutional teams.Read 7 Oct 2026 · help.sysrev.com

API

Premium and Enterprise accounts receive API tokens for a REST API described by an OpenAPI specification with an interactive web interface.Read 15 Oct 2026 · help.sysrev.com

Integrations

External records can be imported through RIS or BibTeX files, and Zotero-compatible files can be handled through the Zotero translator.Read 15 Oct 2026 · help.sysrev.com

Security

Sysrev says customer data is encrypted at rest with AES-256 and AWS Key Management Service customer-managed keys.Read 7 Oct 2026 · help.sysrev.com

Support

Users can submit an in-project issue report or email [email protected].Read 15 Oct 2026 · help.sysrev.com

AI auto-labeler

The Auto-labeler uses label definitions as generative-AI prompts and can process metadata or attached full-text PDFs.Read 15 Oct 2026 · help.sysrev.com

AI cost and access

Auto-labeler runs require project funds, and cost varies with the number of records, labels, content type, and model.Read 7 Oct 2026 · help.sysrev.com

AI data use

Sysrev states that data sent to the Auto-labeler is not used for OpenAI model development or improvement.Read 15 Oct 2026 · help.sysrev.com

AI review

The Auto-labeler can suggest labels using generative AI, and its report lets users compare automated results with human labeling.Read 7 Oct 2026 · help.sysrev.com

Built-in search

The service provides direct search and import from PubMed and OpenAlex.Read 15 Oct 2026 · help.sysrev.com

Company ownership

Sysrev is operated by privately held Insilica LLC.Read 15 Oct 2026 · sysrev.com

Company profile

LinkedIn lists Sysrev as a Bethesda, Maryland research-services company founded in 2017 with 2–10 employees.Read 15 Oct 2026 · linkedin.com

Document types

Projects can review PDFs, title and abstract pairs, plain text, or structured JSON.Read 7 Oct 2026 · dev.sysrev.com

Documentation depth

The help center contains tutorials, workflow articles, API guidance, export specifications, role documentation and dated release notes.Read 15 Oct 2026 · help.sysrev.com

Exports

Project data can be exported as EndNote XML, Excel workbooks, Parquet files and bundled PDFs.Read 15 Oct 2026 · help.sysrev.com

Funding and grants

The U.S. SBIR profile lists Insilica LLC awards totaling $2,335,861, including a $1,014,776 SRVC-EHSR award.Read 15 Oct 2026 · sbir.gov

Human review

Reviewers can work singly or collaboratively, with blind review, single or double screening modes and conflict resolution.Read 15 Oct 2026 · help.sysrev.com

Import formats

Users can bulk import records using RIS, BibTeX, EndNote XML, JSON, or Markdown files, and can import PDFs or PubMed IDs.Read 7 Oct 2026 · help.sysrev.com

Label types

Projects support Boolean, categorical, string and more complex group or tabular labels.Read 15 Oct 2026 · help.sysrev.com

Labels

Sysrev supports Boolean, categorical, string, and tabular data extraction.Read 7 Oct 2026 · dev.sysrev.com

Launch news

Insilica announced Sysrev as a systematic-review platform in a PR Newswire release published in 2019.Read 15 Oct 2026 · prnewswire.com

Limit: deduplication

Sysrev does not perform bibliographic deduplication, so users must deduplicate before importing or use another tool.Read 15 Oct 2026 · help.sysrev.com

Limit: independent validation

SaaSInspector reports that Sysrev has almost no presence on G2, Capterra or Trustpilot, making independent validation difficult.Read 15 Oct 2026 · saasinspector.com

Limit: PRISMA

Sysrev does not automatically generate PRISMA flow diagrams because deduplication and review phases are not handled in one consolidated workflow.Read 15 Oct 2026 · help.sysrev.com

Limit: source discovery

SaaSInspector characterizes Sysrev as lacking general web search beyond its PubMed and OpenAlex options, requiring users to supply other documents.Read 15 Oct 2026 · saasinspector.com

Notable limit

Sysrev does not support deduplication of imported records.Read 7 Oct 2026 · help.sysrev.com

Praise: collaborative screening

A Sysrev case description highlights handling more than 1,200 titles and abstracts, multiple-reviewer consensus and machine-learning prioritization.Read 15 Oct 2026 · linkedin.com

Praise: efficiency

The peer-reviewed platform paper reports that users found Sysrev made systematic evidence review more efficient, including projects with over 100 users and tens of thousands of studies.Read 15 Oct 2026 · frontiersin.org

Prediction model

Sysrev can train prediction models from reviewer labels and filter records by predicted likelihood.Read 15 Oct 2026 · help.sysrev.com

Primary users

The product is aimed at systematic-review researchers, toxicologists, regulatory groups and other teams processing large document collections.Read 15 Oct 2026 · saasinspector.com

Privacy security statement

The privacy policy says Sysrev uses commercially acceptable safeguards but cannot guarantee absolute security of transmission or storage.Read 15 Oct 2026 · sysrev.com

Public code

Sysrev's GitHub organization lists the archived PySysrev Python API client and archived srvc-old command-line review tool.Read 15 Oct 2026 · github.com

Python SDK

The public PySysrev package provides a Python client for interacting with the Sysrev API.Read 15 Oct 2026 · pypi.org

Recent release

January 2026 release notes describe project text highlighting, Zotero Translator import/export and Gemini 2.5 Flash PDF processing changes.Read 15 Oct 2026 · help.sysrev.com

Search integrations

Sysrev provides built-in search options for PubMed and OpenAlex.Read 7 Oct 2026 · help.sysrev.com

Self-hosting

SRVC documentation describes local installation using Nix and git-managed review projects, with optional synchronization to Sysrev.Read 15 Oct 2026 · docs.sysrev.com

SRVC license

SRVC is documented as an open-source document-review system under the AGPL license family and can be extended with Python, R or other languages.Read 15 Oct 2026 · docs.sysrev.com

Supported inputs

Sysrev handles PDFs, title-abstract pairs, plain text and structured JSON.Read 15 Oct 2026 · dev.sysrev.com

Unlimited collaborators

The FAQ says all account types can add as many project collaborators as desired.Read 15 Oct 2026 · help.sysrev.com

Unlimited projects

Basic, Premium and Enterprise accounts can create unlimited projects.Read 15 Oct 2026 · help.sysrev.com

Plans and prices

Every Sysrev plan and price →

Where Specifiction places it

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