Draft:Refine Technologies
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Refine Technologies, Inc., doing business as Refine, is an American artificial intelligence company that develops a tool that provides referee-style feedback on academic research papers, aimed at helping authors and journal editors identify mathematical, logical, and clarity problems in drafts before publication. It was cofounded in 2025 by the economist Benjamin Golub and Yann Calvó López.[1][2][3]
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Company type | Private |
| Industry | Artificial intelligence |
| Founded | 2025 in Delaware, U.S. |
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| Headquarters | United States |
| Products | Refine (AI research-paper review) |
| Website | www |
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In December 2025, Golub discussed Refine at Princeton University's Markus Academy, during a lecture on artificial intelligence in economics research.[4] For the 2026 ACM Conference on Economics and Computation, Refine offered authors optional AI-generated pre-submission feedback, announced in the conference's call for papers.[5]
Economist John H. Cochrane reviewed Refine in a February 2026 post on his blog The Grumpy Economist.[2] In a March 2026 Financial Times column, economics columnist Soumaya Keynes wrote that several of the top five economics journals were experimenting with Refine, and that the tool found problems in at least a third of papers already reviewed by referees at top journals.[1] Tyler Cowen wrote in Marginal Revolution that Refine could be used to reassess historical economics papers,[6] and Joshua Gans has discussed the tool in the context of AI-generated referee reports.[7]
In March 2026, Refine was named one of 25 finalists in Harvard University's annual President's Innovation Challenge, competing in the Student Open track. Three of the finalist teams, including Refine, were co-founded by students at the Harvard John A. Paulson School of Engineering and Applied Sciences.[3][8]
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