AI: what it does, what it costs and how to control it
SysRevAI uses Claude language models (Anthropic) with your own key. AI assists; it does not decide. Here is what it does at each phase, how to enable it and how to keep the cost under control.
Enabling it
- Create an API key in the Anthropic console.
- Admin → Claude (AI): paste the key (stored encrypted), pick the default model and a monthly spending limit.
- Switch each feature on or off: screening, extraction, summaries, chat, protocol, citations, Copilot.
- Inside each review, the coordinator can switch AI off entirely.
What it does at each phase
| Phase | AI help | Who decides |
|---|---|---|
| Protocol | Drafts the fields from a document. | The coordinator reviews and saves. |
| Import | Interprets free-text bibliographies. | Preview with checkboxes. |
| Screening | Prioritises the queue; proposes each decision criterion by criterion, with a confidence % and the reason. | The reviewer, on each reference. |
| Conflicts | Checks the article against the protocol and recommends including or excluding, with a confidence % and the reason. | Whoever resolves the conflict. |
| Full text | AI suggestion from the full text (recommendation, confidence %, reason and criteria), structured summary, chat with quotes, translation. | The reviewer. |
| Extraction | Proposes values for empty fields with the source passage. | The reviewer verifies. |
| Citations | Reformats and verifies bibliographies. | The user. |
Costs and limits
Every call is logged with the model, tokens and estimated cost in euros. In the review, the AI usage tab breaks it down by feature and person; under Admin → Claude (AI) you set the global monthly limit, and when it is reached the features stop without affecting the rest of the platform.
The AI-use statement
Each review automatically produces an AI-use statement: in which phases AI was used, with which models and how much. It exports to Word for the article’s methods section, as more and more journals require.
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