utureLinks is a multi-disciplinary, AI and Machine Learning-powered aggregator for academic papers, and journals. It will provide a personalized and customized experience to researchers, students and scholars giving them access to millions of journals from disciplines of their choosing. Future Links will not just be the one-stop-platform for researchers, but it will also spur readership and exposure of journals.

1. FutureLinks.ai
Your Digital Research Assistant

2. What’s driving us?
There would be no progress of civilization without active research in the
academia and the industry. Each year new students grow the ranks of
researchers.
Our target customers validated that in the first stages of their research, half of
their time was wasted on irrelevant research publications.
At FutureLinks.ai, we believe researchers should spend less time searching
for relevant content to feed on and more time using their intellectual
abilities to push the boundaries our knowledge.

3. What are we doing about that?
We understand the extended scrutiny that researchers and interested 3rd parties have to
endure when conducting literature research.
Curated
Content
Research
Suggestions
Higher
Relevance
Easier
Organization

4. FutureLinks is a multi-disciplinary
aggregator for academic
papers, and journals.
We will build the FlipBoard of
academic publication. FutureLinks
will be a machine learning
powered platform that proposes
relevant content for researchers according
to their previous publications and their
areas of interest.
Product

5. The Magic Sauce - Graph Theory

6. The Magic Sauce - Recommendation Systems
Collaborative Filtering Content-Based Filtering

7. Pricing
Novice I Free Bohemian I 0.62€ per View Epicurean I 16.18€ per User
Full platform access
Unlimited Papers
Full platform access
Unlimited Papers
Full platform access
10 Free Papers

8. Market analysis
1
competitor
€1.3B
global revenue
37M potential
users
143%
CAGR

9. Subscriber I Fee Variable per User
Upon Admission · Private Institutions · 30% of Market
Journals I Affiliate Fee
50% Basic · 30% Achiever · 20% Outperformer
Revenue sources

10. Go-Live Plan
January 2018
Begin of pilot phase
with MVP
March 2018
Iteration and pivot of
product
June 2018
Scale-up phase to test
infrastructure
July 2018
Go-live with product
and marketing
Jan Feb Mar Apr May Jun Jul Aug Sept Oct Nov Dec

11. User Targets
Pilot
Phase to test
functionality and
features
Scale-Up
Phase to test network
capabilities and
website build
Go-Live
Run and monitor
marketing campaign to
scale the business
<50 ~1000 >100,000

12. Research Gate
Professional network for scientists. Connect,
Share, Collaborate.
13M users.
Raised 87M, (Bill Gates, Founders Fund, GS…)
Advertising
Iris.ai
AI Science Assistant, increase productivity by
mapping relevant concepts in academic papers.
Raised 421k.
Product version: Beta, AI training phase.
Mendeley
Desktop and web program to manage and
share research papers.
Raised 2M in 2009, got acquired 50M in 2013.
3M users. 180 countries.
Subscription model based on storage
Academia.edu
Platform for academics to share their research
and monitor analytics around the impact of
their research.
49M users.
Raised 87M, (Bill Gates, Founders Fund, GS…)

13. Management
Experienced, diverse team working tirelessly on the
company’s strategy for successful execution
Hemant · Product · 24yo · Software engineer and digital business
graduate, prior work in network management systems and their
respective optimization
Théo · UX - Business Dev · 23yo · Programming and customer
analytics skills. Experienced in business operations and logistic
analytics
Julius · Strategy · 24yo · Background in mechanical engineering and
finance. Prior experiences in banking and private equity

14. Next Steps
1. Finish Building MVP
2. Develop Financial Projections
3. Complete Validation Based on MVP
4. Design Pilot
5. Go-Live

15. Advance your research
Unlock your creativity
"If I have seen further, it
is by standing on the
shoulders of giants."