sitepaper
A manuscript
One ordered document — synthesis, white paper, or, on Analyst, a sourced critical analysis — ready to edit, cite, and export.
Comparison
A document from the site. Not a digest of one page.
AI summarisation is built for the page in front of you. sitepaper is built for the site: it chooses the pages that carry the argument and writes a manuscript you can edit, cite, and export. Analyst adds claim-by-claim ratings with sources.
What you leave with
Four tools, four kinds of leftover
AI summarisation
A digest
A short recap of a page or a pasted excerpt. Useful for skimming. It is not a report on the site.
Chat research
A thread
Answers to the next question, with links that come and go. The work lives in the chat, not in a file you own.
Site scrapers
A pile of files
Every URL, or close to it, as markdown or HTML. You still have to read, discard, and write the document.
Feature by feature
Where the work actually happens
Summarisers compress. Chat research answers the next question. Scrapers collect files. sitepaper reads, chooses, and writes.
| Feature | sitepaper | AI summarisation | Chat research | Site scrapers |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Starts from a domain, not a paste | Yes | Limited | Limited | Yes |
| Reads beyond the first page | Yes | No | Limited | Yes |
| Chooses pages that add information | Yes | No | Limited | No |
| Drops navigation, templates, and chrome | Yes | Limited | Limited | Limited |
| Writes one continuous argument | Yes | No | Limited | No |
| Synthesis, white paper, or Analyst critical analysis | Yes | No | Limited | No |
| Rates claims Fact, Fiction, or Contested (Analyst) | Yes | No | Limited | No |
| Editable manuscript you keep | Yes | No | No | Limited |
| Export PDF, Word, and plain text | Yes | Limited | Limited | Limited |
| Visible trail of the pages that were read | Yes | No | Limited | Yes |
| Crawl depth you set (Free 1, Standard up to 5, Analyst up to 10) | Yes | No | No | Limited |
| Library of finished documents (Standard and Analyst) | Yes | No | No | No |
“Limited” means the tool can approximate the job if you do the gathering, prompting, and assembly yourself.
The usual alternatives
What people try first
AI summarisation
A page in, a paragraph out
ChatGPT, Claude, Gemini, and browser “summarise this” tools compress what you can paste or open. They are fast at a single article. They do not walk a site, choose coverage, or leave you with a structured manuscript. Ask for a summary and you get a digest. Ask sitepaper for a domain and you get a document.
Chat research
Questions, not a handover
Perplexity and similar research chats are strong at answering the next question with citations. They are weaker at turning a whole website into one argument you can edit and send. The product is the conversation. sitepaper’s product is the file.
Site scrapers
Coverage without judgment
Crawlers and markdown dumpers collect pages. They do not decide which pages carry the argument, drop repeated chrome, or compose a white paper. You get raw material. sitepaper reads, chooses, and writes.
Questions
Before you paste a URL into a chatbot
- How is sitepaper different from AI summarisation?
- Summarisers compress a page or a paste into a short recap. sitepaper starts from a domain, reads the pages that matter, and writes a full document — a synthesis, a white paper, or, on Analyst, a critical analysis — that you can edit and export.
- Can I just paste a site into ChatGPT?
- You can paste what fits. You still choose the pages, lose the ones you never opened, and assemble the argument yourself. sitepaper does that research pass, then opens an editable manuscript.
- Is this a scraper?
- No. Scrapers collect URLs. sitepaper chooses coverage, drops templates and navigation, and writes one ordered document instead of a folder of files.
- When should I use a summariser instead?
- When you already have the page open and need a two-minute recap. Use sitepaper when the brief is the site itself — a vendor, a policy body, a competitor, a research programme — and you need a document to keep.
- Which plan includes critical analysis?
- Standard is $15 a month: synthesis up to 5 levels (200 pages), white papers up to 3 (200 pages), a library of finished documents, and generous monthly usage. Analyst is $35 a month: synthesis and white papers up to 10 levels and 600 pages, plus Critical Analysis — focused verification depth, up to 300 pages, with a source for every rating. If you use the included monthly writing up, Analyst can reset it for $30 for the rest of the month, Standard for $12, or wait until the 1st UTC.
Begin a report
If the brief is the site, start with the domain.
Create an account, name the site, and leave with a document instead of another summary.