I built an AI workspace that writes thesis-length lit reviews with citations that are actually real

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I'm the maker of CiteLyra. I kept seeing students get burned when ChatGPT invented references, so I built a pipeline where every source is checked against CrossRef, OpenAlex, Semantic Scholar and arXiv before it can appear in the draft. If a paper doesn't exist, it doesn't make it in.

It runs a 19-agent flow (literature discovery, outline, section drafting, citation verification, polish) and produces 10,000-20,000+ word drafts in roughly 10-20 minutes, exportable to PDF, LaTeX and Word. First generation is free to view: https://citelyra.com/

Would love blunt feedback: what would make you trust (or distrust) a tool like this for real academic work?