What is Merlin?
Merlin is an AI assistant available as a Chrome extension and web app, bringing multiple AI models into one place for students, marketers, founders, developers, consultants and analysts. It can answer questions alongside search results, work with web pages and uploaded documents, and help create or repurpose content. Users can also build reusable knowledge bases and custom bots, generate diagrams or code snippets, and use Merlin across devices with synced history.
Merlin Features:
Model Access: Chat with models including ChatGPT, Gemini, Claude, DeepSeek, Llama and Mistral through a single Merlin account.
Web Context: Summarize websites, search results and YouTube videos, then ask follow-up questions based on the content.
Document Chat: Upload PDFs, presentations or spreadsheets and ask questions about their contents, or use them as context for a project.
Reusable Knowledge: Create Projects with reference materials and query their knowledge bases for tailored research or brand-voice content.
Diagrams and Code: Use Crafts to generate mindmaps, charts and other diagrams, as well as React and Shadcn app snippets that you can edit.
Browser and Social: Access Merlin from web pages and use dedicated features for Google Search, Gmail, X and LinkedIn to draft messages and posts.
Custom Assistants: Save reusable prompts and create chatbots by combining instructions, context and knowledge.
Merlin Benefits:
Fewer Tab Switches: Getting answers and summaries where you are working can keep research and writing moving without repeatedly opening a separate chat.
Quicker Research: Summaries and follow-up questions help you find relevant details without reading every search result or watching a full video.
Consistent Content: Reusable brand context can make repeated marketing drafts more aligned with the voice and information you provide.
Clearer Presentations: Turning research into diagrams and charts gives you another way to organize findings for reports, planning and discussion.
Less Repetitive Writing: Reusable prompts and contextual drafts reduce the need to start routine emails, social posts and replies from scratch.
Use Cases:
Coursework and Study: Summarize lecture PDFs or videos, ask questions about course material, and make a project from study resources for homework help.
Marketing Repurposing: Turn a YouTube video or web article into a blog post, social copy or other content suited to your brand context.
Client Research: Gather information from web pages and documents, query a project knowledge base, and organize findings into diagrams for a report.
Social Outreach: Draft a post on X or LinkedIn, reply to comments, or write a cold outreach message using relevant context.
Code Prototyping: Generate an editable React or Shadcn app snippet, or add code documentation to a project for contextual questions.