You are an individual researcher finding, summarising and mapping papers from sources such as arXiv and PubMed.
Certant vs Atlas Workspace
Atlas helps a researcher read the literature. Certant answers from an organisation's own documents, with the paragraph attached.
Which one fits you
You are an organisation answering from your own reports, policies and data, for many people, with permissions, an audit log and a choice of where it runs.
Compare them line by line
What each vendor publishes about the things regulated buyers ask first. Where a vendor doesn't say, we say so.
| Question | Atlas Workspace | Certant |
|---|---|---|
| What it is | AI research assistant for the literature: find papers, summarise them, map them and take notes | Reads your documents and data into one model, with a knowledgebase, chatbots, agents, analytics and Strata on top |
| Where it runs | Atlas cloud; deployment options are not published | Certant's cloud, your own cloud account, or air-gapped on your own hardware |
| Australian data | Not stated | Australian region on Certant's cloud, or in-country on infrastructure you run |
| Citations | Grounded citations with a citation trail behind each answer | Every answer opens the source document at the paragraph it came from |
| When the documents don't answer | Not documented on the public pages we checked | Says it can't find the answer and offers to pass the question to a person |
| Connects to | PDFs, websites, YouTube, arXiv, PubMed, OpenAlex, Semantic Scholar and DOI lookups | SharePoint, Confluence, Google Drive, Box, S3 and your website; Slack and Teams apps; an API and an MCP server |
| Scans and tables | Not a stated focus | A separate reader for each kind of file keeps tables as tables, and Strata turns them into data you can query |
| Agents and actions | Not a stated feature | Agent Builder for multi-step workflows with approvals; Strata monitors act only after a second person approves |
| Certifications listed | SOC 2 Type II, ISO 27001, HIPAA and GDPR listed on its homepage | SOC 2-aligned controls. On a sovereign deployment Certant is assessed inside your own boundary |
| Pricing | Published: free, then plans at $16 and $32 a month | Published: free trial, then plans from $49 a month billed annually. Sovereign deployments are an annual licence |
Prices in US dollars unless marked. Competitor details come from their own pages or the third parties named here, checked 2 November 2026; check the vendor before you rely on them. Sources: Atlas Workspace homepage, Atlas Workspace pricing. Certant details: pricing, security, deployment options.
Where Atlas Workspace leads
A fair comparison says what the other product does better.
- It searches scholarly databases for papers you do not have yet.
- Its individual plans are cheap and published.
- Knowledge and semantic maps help when you are exploring a new field.
What you get with Certant
Answers you can check
Every answer shows the paragraph it came from, and one click opens the page. When your documents don't cover a question, Certant says so instead of guessing.
Runs where your data must stay
The same product runs in our cloud, in your cloud account, or on a box in your office with the network cable unplugged. We published the packet captures.
Turns tables into data
Strata reads the tables inside your reports and agreements into data you can query and monitor, and every number traces to its page.
A researcher might use Atlas to find and read papers, while their organisation uses Certant to answer from its own reports, monitoring data and policies. See how Certant works for research organisations.
Questions buyers ask
Short answers. If yours isn't here, ask us.
Is Atlas Workspace a competitor to Certant?
Only partly. Atlas Workspace is a literature research assistant for individuals. Certant is for organisations that want answers from their own documents and data, shared across teams, with permissions, audit logs and a choice of deployment.
Which is better for a research organisation?
If you need to discover published papers, a literature tool like Atlas fits. If you need staff to get cited answers from your organisation's own reports, monitoring data and policies, Certant fits. Some teams use both.
Can Certant read scientific PDFs?
Yes. Certant reads PDFs, scans, slides and spreadsheets, keeps tables as tables, and answers with the page each answer came from.
Try it on your own documents.
Bring twenty real questions and see which answers come back with the paragraph attached.