Our story
We started because good work kept disappearing.
DataIntell is a research company. Everything we build answers one question: how does research reach the people it was meant to help?
Built for every researcher. Not just PhDs. Not just institutions.
Students, researchers, academics and professionals publish here directly. There is no institutional gatekeeper, no journal approval queue, and no letter months later telling you the work does not fit the scope.
Validation happens in the open instead. AI assesses every submission within minutes. Named human reviewers score the work against a published rubric. The community elevates what is strong.
Authorship is recorded at the moment of publication, so credit has a fact behind it rather than a memory of who said what first.
Published projects
Community members
Countries represented
Days to validate
On the platform
What you can do on DataIntell.
The gap
Four failures, one root cause.
Research is produced far faster than the system built to circulate it can carry. Each part of DataIntell addresses one piece of that.
🔍 Research Invisibility
Only 25% of doctoral dissertations ever reach a peer-reviewed journal (Evans et al., 2018). Less than 12% of UK dissertations receive even a single citation (Kousha & Thelwall, 2020). Work that could change lives sits in university archives. Undiscoverable. Uncredited. Unused.
♻️ Research Duplication
93% of researchers whose work has been duplicated had no idea it happened (Broad & Wade, 1982; replicated in multiple institutional studies). $28 billion is spent annually on irreproducible research in the US alone (Freedman et al., PLOS Biology). Students spend months solving problems already solved.
🛡️ Credit Theft
Around 30% of researchers report directly witnessing or experiencing someone taking credit for their unpublished work (International Research Integrity Survey, 35,000 researchers). Nature's biennial PhD survey consistently finds 25 to 35% of doctoral students cite unfair credit distribution as a primary friction point with supervisors. Without verifiable proof of authorship, there is no recourse. DataIntell changes that.
🏭 Industry Disconnect
Global R&D investment reached $2.8 trillion in 2023 (OECD/WIPO). Yet the "valley of death" between academic research and commercial application remains one of the most documented failures in the innovation system (Hughes & Kitson, 2012; your own white paper). Grassroots solutions exist. Industry cannot find them.
What we hold to
Three commitments, not slogans.
01
Transparency
Open review, visible scores, honest feedback. Reviewers are identified and accountable. No anonymous gatekeeping.
02
Accessibility
Free to use. No paywalls, no institutional login. A student in Lagos has the same platform as a professor in London.
03
Attribution
Proof of authorship for every published project. Your ideas, your credit, recorded at the moment you publish.
The people
Researchers who kept hitting the same wall.
Founder
Oluwasegun Odesola
Founder & Director, DataIntell
Serial technology entrepreneur, IEEE-published AI researcher, and Founder of DataIntell. Bridging research, fairness, and innovation across Africa and the UK, …
Co-Founder
Oluseyi Olukola
Trustworthy AI Researcher & PhD Candidate
PhD candidate in Computer Science (University of Southern Mississippi), arXiv-published AI safety researcher, and Co-Founder of DataIntell. Building trustworthy AI …
DataIntell is not just a platform. It is a movement.
- So no student's work dies in an archive.
- So supervisors cannot claim what they did not do.
- So nobody spends a year solving a solved problem.
- So grassroots innovation reaches global industry.
- So every researcher gets the credit they earned.
Founded by Oluwasegun Odesola and Oluseyi Olukola · DataIntell Summit 2025 · Supported by Teesside University, GiniMachine, TotalLab, Responsible Tech