Supergrow for Science: LinkedIn-Style Co-authoring for Researchers

Problem: Scientists write in silos. A lab produces draft findings, then scatters them across Word docs, Overleaf, Zotero libraries, and Slack threads before manually reformatting the same content into a preprint, a grant summary, and a social post. The communities in the brief make the pain concrete: researchers asking how to collaborate via git without version control, how to keep Zotero collections in sync across collaborators, and how to move data between machines the professional way. These are people trying to bolt engineering workflows onto scientific writing because nothing native exists.

Named product: Supergrow for Science is a collaborative writing workspace that treats a research finding as a single source of truth and then reshapes it into the outputs scientists actually need.

Solution: You draft findings once in a shared workspace with live co-authoring and reference management built in. From that draft, the product generates three tailored formats: a shareable post (LinkedIn-style, aimed at building researcher visibility), a preprint-ready manuscript, and a grant summary. Reference syncing solves the Zotero collaboration pain surfaced in the communities.

MVP: Real-time co-authored document, Zotero import and sync, and one-click reformatting of a draft into a post plus a preprint template. Ship for a handful of lab teams first.

Revenue: B2B SaaS. Per-seat subscriptions for lab teams, with an institutional tier for departments. Grant-summary and preprint export are the upgrade triggers.

GTM: Land individual researchers via the shareable-post loop, then expand into their labs and institutions.

Growth loops: Every public post carries provenance back to the workspace, so a scientist sharing a finding advertises the tool to co-authors and peers, who then join to co-write.