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Tucson – October 15, 2026 -- Siensmetrica, Inc. has changed its name to Tessa AI, Inc. effective October 7, aligning the company with the brand of its AI research evaluation platform, Tessa, and signaling a push beyond paper scoring into tools for the full lifecycle of scientific research.

Tessa AI has served biomedical users since a May 2026 launch

Since its May 2026 launch, the Tessa platform has been used by researchers, clinicians, and biopharma professionals to evaluate biomedical studies. Each score comes with the evidence behind it. The company said customers, partners, and its own team already called it Tessa.

The former name was a coined word meaning roughly "knowledge measurement," reflecting the company's origin as a system for scoring published research. Siensmetrica.com now redirects to tessaai.co.

Frederick, Md. – September 13, 2026 -- PeerTrust has launched a public researcher due-diligence service, PeerTrust.Report, that flags anomalies in citation records used by universities, research funders, insurers and science investors to make hiring, funding and partnership decisions.

Know Your Scientist tool screens for three citation anomaly types

The new Know Your Scientist (KYS) module examines coauthor network concentration, reciprocal citation relationships, and abrupt publication velocity changes. PeerTrust weighs these signals into an evidence-based report intended for human review rather than automated verdicts. An unusual pattern does not constitute a finding of misconduct, as legitimate factors such as consortium publishing or rapid team growth can also generate anomalies.