Oxtractor is a boutique AI research and development company in Oxford. We design multi-agent retrieval and conversational AI systems for medicine, science, education and regulated industry, and we take them from the laboratory into practice with university and industry partners.
We are a small team by design. Every system we build starts as a research question, is tested against evidence, and is shaped with the people who will rely on it.
Answers are built from retrieved sources, cited back to the document, table or figure they came from.
Independent judge and compliance agents review each answer before a person sees it, and we measure how often they catch errors.
Sensitive institutions keep their data. Our systems run on premise or in sovereign infrastructure and work with any foundation model.
We work alongside universities, clinicians and domain experts, and publish what we learn.
Our current programme, run with MSc researchers at UCL's Department of Computer Science, asks what an AI agent must prove before a laboratory relies on it. We frame the answer as three tests.
Can it find and use the right evidence?
Agents that search the literature, call scientific tools and choose how to retrieve from long documents.
Can its claims be checked?
Methods that locate unsupported statements, audit reasoning claim by claim and trace how agents reached an answer.
Can institutions improve it together?
Ways for hospitals and laboratories to fine-tune a shared model without pooling their data.
Oxtractor grew out of information extraction research at the University of Oxford's Department of Computer Science, including the ERC-funded DIADEM project on automated web data extraction and our own work on structured aspect extraction.
Today that lineage continues in retrieval, reasoning and verification for large language model systems.
One research platform underneath everything we build. It is independent of any single industry or foundation model: domain knowledge arrives as packs, and the same verified core serves each partner.
Our multi-agent retrieval architecture. A router chooses the retrieval strategy, a reasoning agent assembles the answer, and compliance and judge agents check it before it is returned.
Conversational AI and tutoring for learning and research, co-designed with clinicians and educators, with a current focus on medical and scientific training.
Benchmarks and auditing tools that measure grounding, error detection and consistency, so partners know a system's limits before it goes live.
We choose fields where answers must be traceable and mistakes are costly.
Clinical knowledge support, multi-hop medical question answering and literature-aware assistants, built with practising clinicians.
Agents that read the literature, generate and test hypotheses, and report what they found with the evidence attached.
AI tutoring, curriculum mapping and AI literacy programmes for universities and medical schools.
Document review and compliance checking where every conclusion has to cite its rule and its source.
Oxtractor is a research and development company. We do not sell subscriptions; we build systems and evidence together with partners.
A shared research programme on a problem your organisation owns, with clear milestones and published results where possible.
We join and lead grant-funded consortia with universities, hospitals and industry in the UK and Europe.
We adapt Nucleus to a partner's domain, data and infrastructure, and deploy it inside their walls.
Our architectures, evaluation methods and domain packs are available to license for partners who build in house.
Our work is anchored in two of the UK's leading computer science communities.
The University of Oxford's research commercialisation company. Oxtractor is part of its portfolio.
innovation.ox.ac.ukOur MSc research programme, including the AI Scientist work, is carried out with UCL Computer Science.
ucl.ac.uk/computer-scienceHead of the Oxford University Incubator, Oxford University Innovation
Oxford University Innovation
Department of Computer Science, UCL
Write to us about research partnerships, consortia and applied programmes. Oxtractor was founded and is led by Dr Omer Gunes.
info@oxtractor.com