Open and accessible sensemaking data and tools are instrumental for making meaningful progress on multiple key challenges for DeSci, including: 

- Accessibility and onboarding of researchers and their professional social graphs
- Information overload (helping researchers decide what papers to read next and where to focus their research attention)
- Alternative evaluation mechanisms to traditional peer review, altmetrics (assessment of broader public impacts of scientific research)
- Supporting large-scale distributed collaborations (centralizing discussions, helping to keep everyone on the same page).

These challenges are typically viewed separately, and we believe that illuminating a key root cause underlying all of these issues (fragmented sensemaking data) can help direct attention and efforts toward developing more effective solutions.