Publish evidence-backed work under your own name.
Titrate turns the research on your question — the papers you already keep, and the ones it helps you find — into topic stacks, cited opinions and publishable work: articles, courses, digests, client answers. The authority you build is yours, not a media brand's.
Titrate is pre-launch. What is described here is what it is being built to do, with Jeff Casebolt, PhD.
The central question
Does the barbell hip thrust produce superior gluteus maximus development — measured either as acute EMG activation or as chronic hypertrophy — compared to the back squat?
- Contreras et al.2015n=13supports
- Delgado et al.2019n=8mixed
- Plotkin et al.2023n=34contradicts
- Krause Neto et al.2025n=12mixed
- Vigotsky et al.2017n=—contradicts
- Kassiano et al.2024n=33supports
Three tools, and the last mile is still yours.
One tool to find the papers, another to tell you whether they agree, a third to check how they were cited — and a reference manager underneath holding the PDFs. Bounce between them long enough and you still arrive at the same place: a pile of verified evidence and nothing you can put your name on. The research reviews you subscribe to close that last mile, but they close it for someone else's editorial team, so every time you share one you are building their authority. Neither gap is about access to papers. Both are about who ends up with the credibility.
A workbench, not a chatbot.
Nothing here writes a confident paragraph for you to trust. There is no chat window. You keep the judgment; the tool keeps the trail back to the papers. It cannot hallucinate a citation because it does not generate citations at all — a claim points at a paper already sitting in your own library, or it points at nothing.
A real topic stack
Here is one, so this is not just a promise.
Six real papers on one contested question, with what a practitioner actually judges them by. This is a specimen of the material Titrate organises — not a picture of the product.
The central question
Does the barbell hip thrust produce superior gluteus maximus development — measured either as acute EMG activation or as chronic hypertrophy — compared to the back squat?
| Paper | Year | Design | N | Bears on the question |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Contreras et al. | 2015 | Cross-sectional EMG | 13 | supports |
| Delgado et al. | 2019 | Cross-sectional EMG | 8 | mixed |
| Vigotsky et al. | 2017 | Methodological commentary | — | contradicts |
| Plotkin et al. | 2023 | RCT — MRI-measured hypertrophy | 34 | contradicts |
| Kassiano et al. | 2024 | RCT — ultrasound thickness | 33 | supports |
| Krause Neto et al. | 2025 | Systematic review / meta-analysis | 12 studies | mixed |
2 supporting · 2 contradicting · 2 mixed
Two of those papers say one thing, two say the opposite, and two say it depends. Titrate is where a practitioner keeps that straight and then writes something they can put their name on.
Every paper listed here is real and independently re-verified on 2 August 2026 against PubMed, PMC, the DOI resolver, Unpaywall and an open citation-graph API. The screen is not. Titrate is pre-launch, and the topic-stack view is designed, not built — this is the specification, shown with real material rather than mocked up. Labelling how a paper bears on the question is a design commitment, not a shipped feature, and it is not what makes Titrate different.
The workbench
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Get the papers in — upload the library you already keep, or start from a topic and have Titrate propose candidates. Either way you decide what stays: it proposes, you dispose, and the library is yours.
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Build a stack: one contested question, and every paper you have that bears on it, with its design and sample size visible.
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Write your position. Each claim carries the paper it came from, on the record itself — not in a second app you have to remember to keep in step.
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Publish it under your name — an article, a course, a digest issue, or an answer to the client who asked — and send it to a list that lives in your workspace rather than on a platform that owns the relationship.
Built with someone who has been through peer review.
Titrate is being built with Jeff Casebolt, PhD — a biomechanist with five peer-reviewed publications, in the fitness industry since 1991.
About Jeff and why this existsTitrate is pre-launch.
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