What is PaperNest?

India's AI research community has grown enormously over the past decade — but the tools available to manage journals and conferences have not kept pace. The platforms researchers have relied on were built for a different era: complex to navigate, slow to adapt, and designed around institutional access rather than individual researchers.

We experienced these limitations firsthand while organising conferences for the BRAIN Foundation. Reviewer assignments required hours of manual coordination. Decision communications were rigid and impersonal. Moving data between systems was unnecessarily hard — and there was always the nagging concern that our own conference data wasn't truly ours to control.

The BRAIN Foundation's mission is to support AI research across India. We decided the most impactful thing we could build was a platform designed specifically for this community — one that treats data ownership as a right, not a premium feature; that gives Program Chairs real-time visibility into their conference; and that makes the author experience clear, transparent, and frustration-free. PaperNest is that platform.

It is free to use. It will always be free to use. And your data will always be yours to export, in full, on demand — regardless of your account status or subscription tier.