Move your team from Consensus to You.com.
Each person gets a short interview, then a personalized step-by-step guide showing exactly where their saved work, prompts, and projects land in You.com — and the few things that need a manual step, walked through. You send one invite; nobody becomes the help desk, and nothing in Consensus is changed or cancelled. Want to see where you’re paying for both first? Run the free audit.
Both return AI answers in which every claim links back to a real source, so the migration is mostly about source scope. Moving from Consensus to You.com: run the question in You.com's Research mode for the closest experience - extensive citations and a structured answer - but expect the citations to point at web pages rather than journal articles. Moving from You.com to Consensus: take a question where You.com returned web-cited answers and re-run it on consensus.app when you specifically need peer-reviewed evidence; Consensus will return ranked papers with AI summaries and, for yes/no questions, a Consensus Meter showing scientific agreement.
- Warning: You.com cites the open web via RAG; Consensus cites a curated corpus of ~220M peer-reviewed papers. For evidence-grade or clinical/academic claims the difference is decisive - a You.com citation to a webpage is not equivalent to a Consensus citation to a published study.
- Warning: Consensus adds research-specific scaffolding that You.com does not: the Consensus Meter (scientific-agreement visualisation), Study Snapshots (extracted population/design/sample size/results per paper), and citation export to RIS/CSV for reference managers (EndNote, Zotero, Paperpile, etc.). These do not carry over to You.com.
- Warning: You.com's Research mode is one of several AI Modes (Smart, the free default; Genius for code/compute and data-viz; Research; Create for image generation) and is general-purpose; Consensus is research-only, so a You.com user must explicitly choose Research and accept web-scoped sources, while a Consensus user gives up You.com's coding/compute and image modes entirely.