INDRA: A New AI Tool for Exploring Tobacco, Fossil Fuel, and Chemical Industry Archives

INDRA, for Industry Documents Research and Analysis, is freely available in beta on the Stanford University website (https://indra.stanford.edu), where you can now explore the UCSF Industry Documents Library, Columbia and CUNY's ToxicDocs, and other archives of Big Carbon’s previously secret documents—all through a single portal. 

Newly added collections include: Fossil Fuel Industry Magazines (more on the way), Columbia Law School’s Climate Case Chart, and the House Oversight Committee on Fossil Fuel Disinformation documents. You can access, compile, and analyze any (or all) of these documents on the site using an LLM equipped with safeguards that prevent fabrication and other notorious failures of general purpose LLMs. More on the project here:

The preprint (arXiv.org):
https://arxiv.org/abs/2609.11261
(esp. Exxon’s Baytown scorchworks, pp.13–18)

The appendices:
https://indra.stanford.edu/methods/appendices

Many thanks to the CSSN for providing funding support for this work, and to the incredible network of CSSN scholars who helped us sharpen this tool along the way.