Our Story

Built by researchers,
for researchers.

We hit the wall every researcher hits — and decided to tear it down. Here's why we built Metalyze.

Our mission

Where innovation meets
evidence-based medicine

As medical students, we were told that systematic reviews and meta-analyses are the gold standard of evidence-based medicine. But when we tried to conduct our own, we hit a wall.

The process of finding a novel and viable research question was a nightmare of endless manual searches, dead ends, and wasted months. It was a barrier that stood between us and meaningful research.

We knew there had to be a better way. We envisioned a tool that could accelerate the discovery process — helping researchers go from a vague idea to a fully-formed, feasible PICO with expert search strings in minutes, not months.

That's why we created Metalyze. A fusion of our own experience as researchers and the power of AI, designed to handle the part that burns the most time: finding and validating the right topic.

3
Ways to start — Discover, Analyze, or Build from a partial PICO
20+
Free AI models to choose from across Groq and OpenRouter
Free
Always free for students — bring your own API keys
The people

Meet the team

Musa Masood
Musa Masood
Founder & Developer

A medical student at Allama Iqbal Medical College, Lahore, with a deep passion for coding, research, and the intersection of AI with evidence-based medicine.

Saad Masood
Saad Masood
Co-Founder & Researcher

A final-year medical student at Allama Iqbal Medical College, Lahore, and an experienced researcher in evidence-based medicine and systematic review methodology.

Abubakar Amjad
Co-Developer

A Computer Science student at the National University of Sciences & Technology (NUST), Islamabad, contributing to Metalyze's engineering and infrastructure.

What drives us

Our values

Evidence First

Every feature we build respects the rigour that evidence-based medicine demands. We don't cut corners when it comes to research integrity.

Open Access

Research belongs to everyone. Metalyze is free to use — just bring your own API keys for Groq or OpenRouter (both have free tiers). No subscriptions, no paywalls on the platform itself.

Radical Speed

We believe that months of searching should take minutes. Every architectural decision is made to maximize the speed of your research journey.

Researcher Privacy

Your research ideas are yours. API keys are stored locally on your device and only transmitted to our backend to process your requests — never logged or retained on our servers.

Built by Researchers

We are the target users. Every frustration we solve is one we've personally felt. That empathy drives every product decision we make.

Patient Impact

Better research leads to better medicine. Every topic we help validate could become a systematic review that shapes clinical guidelines and saves lives.