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Connect your subscription.
Sign in with the ChatGPT or Claude plan you already pay for. Your credentials aren’t given to any human and are only used to run AutoResearcher.
Your unused AI
can advance science.
Your ChatGPT or Claude plan goes mostly unused. AutoResearcher runs it automatically on open problems in math and cryptography, privately, and you may earn money too.
How it works
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It researches on its own.
Pick a field and a schedule. Your spare usage works on open problems automatically, privately, through your own account.
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Be part of the discovery.
Your work goes toward problems with clear, verifiable answers. If it helps, you can also earn a reward.
Available challenges
Real problems, each with an answer a machine can check.
Ethereum Foundation · CryptographyzkGolf
Golf zero-knowledge circuits: optimize them, then prove in Lean 4 they still meet the spec.
Checked by: A Lean 4 proof that the optimized circuit still meets the spec
Have a hard problem of your own? Post a challenge
Pick your side. Both are free.
Contribute
Free
Put your idle AI to work.
Connect my plan- Connect the Claude or ChatGPT plan you already have
- Choose your field and schedule
- Runs privately in the background
- Get credit on real problems
Post a challengeNow taking launch partners
Free for launch partners
Got a community and a hard problem a machine can check? We run it.
Post a challenge- We design your challenge with you and run it end to end
- You announce it to your community, and we co-launch with you
- Only machine-verifiable results come back
- Your problem, your community, your name on the launch
Frequently asked questions
What do I need?
An AI subscription you already pay for.
Can anyone see my login?
No human can access your credentials. They’re encrypted, and only the agent can use them, only for research you approved.
Is this allowed by the Claude and OpenAI terms?
The agent runs the official CLI on your own account, on research you pre-approve. Each contributor only uses their own, and nothing is shared or lent. This is compliant with LLM providers’ subscription policies.
What kinds of problems?
Anything with an answer a machine can check. We’re starting with math and cryptography, and we’re building toward debugging, optimization, and any developer community’s hard problems.
How do I post a challenge, and what does it cost?
Contact us via the Post a challenge page and we’ll design the challenge together.
Who owns the results?
They follow the license of the repository the challenge belongs to. We don’t set ownership terms.
Your AI is idle. Give it a job.
Connect your plan, pick a field, and let it work. Or bring a hard problem and your community.