- SPECIMEN
Tosea.ai
- FILED AS
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- INTAKE DATE
- 2026-05-10
- CLASS
- Productivity
- METHOD
- desk research, filed before the Lab logged its counts
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Turn academic papers into compelling presentations in minutes. Upload a PDF, get structured slides with extracted figures, formulas, and key arguments.
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The verdict.
Tosea.ai solves a real, specific pain point: turning dense academic PDFs into slide decks without hours of manual reformatting. If you are a researcher preparing conference talks, a grad student facing a thesis defense, or an instructor building lecture materials from papers, this tool will save you meaningful time. The free tier is generous enough to test the workflow, and the Pro plan at $9.99/month is reasonable for anyone who does this regularly. The output still needs human editing for narrative flow, but it handles the structural heavy lifting well.
Pricing, straight.
Free
$0
- 200 credits/month
- Basic templates + basic models
- 1 concurrent task
- Forever free
Pro
$9.99/mo
Billed annually
- 1,500 + 300 credits/month
- Premium templates + models
- Custom logo + templates
- No watermark exports
- High-precision extraction
- 4 concurrent tasks
- Up to 40 slides at once
Max
$24.99/mo
Billed annually
- 5,000 + 2,000 credits/month
- All templates + flagship models
- Custom logo + templates
- No watermark exports
- Flagship compute lane
- 6 concurrent tasks
- Up to 100 slides at once
- Beta features early access
Pricing as captured on 2026-05-10. Check the live site before you commit.
What it actually does.
Figure & Formula Extraction
Automatically pulls charts, diagrams, equations, and tables from your PDF and places them into appropriate slides. No manual screenshotting required.
AI-Driven Structure
The AI identifies your paper's logical flow (intro, methods, results, conclusions) and builds an outline that maps to a coherent slide narrative.
Custom Templates & Branding
Upload your university or company logo, apply custom color schemes, and save templates for consistent branding across all your presentations.
Multi-Task Processing
Process multiple papers simultaneously. The Max plan supports 6 concurrent tasks, useful for batch-preparing slides for a literature review or course.
High-Precision Extraction
Paid tiers include more accurate content parsing, which matters for papers with complex layouts, multi-column formats, or dense mathematical notation.
Presentation-Ready Export
Export clean, watermark-free files ready for PowerPoint or Google Slides. Pro and Max plans remove the Tosea branding from outputs.
Who it is for.
Conference Presenters
You have a 20-page paper accepted at a conference and need a 15-minute talk by next week. Tosea gives you a first draft of slides in minutes instead of starting from a blank deck.
Graduate Students
Thesis defense prep, qualifying exams, lab meetings. If you are constantly turning written work into presentations, this eliminates the most tedious part of the process.
Instructors & Course Creators
Building lecture slides from textbook chapters or assigned readings. Batch processing multiple papers for a semester's worth of material becomes feasible.
Research Teams & Consultants
Summarizing literature reviews or technical reports for client presentations. The custom branding features make it practical for professional contexts.
The honest part.
- Free tier watermarks. The free plan adds Tosea branding to exports. Fine for testing, but you will need Pro ($9.99/mo) for anything you actually present publicly.
- Credit system is opaque. It is unclear exactly how many credits a single paper-to-slides conversion costs. A 10-page paper and a 40-page paper likely consume very different amounts, but the pricing page does not clarify this.
- Output still needs editing. AI-generated slides capture structure and content, but they rarely nail the narrative arc or emphasis that makes a talk compelling. Expect to spend 30-60 minutes refining what Tosea produces.
- Limited export format details. The site mentions "presentation-ready files" but is vague about exact formats. PPTX compatibility and whether you can export directly to Google Slides is not clearly documented.
- No direct integrations. There is no connection to Overleaf, Zotero, Google Drive, or other tools in the academic workflow. Everything runs through manual PDF upload.
Open it
The free tier gives you 200 credits/month to test the workflow. No credit card required.
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