SciKick

Your AI research sidekick. Accelerate scientific writing and discovery with context-aware AI.

# SciKick — Your AI Research Sidekick SciKick is a context-aware AI assistant for scientific research. It brings together your manuscripts, supplemental material, reviewer comments, research documents, and selected research articles into a single workspace where you can ask questions, improve writing, plan revisions, identify knowledge gaps, and accelerate your research using your choice of local or cloud AI models. Unlike a general-purpose AI chatbot, SciKick understands your entire research project. Instead of repeatedly copying and pasting documents into an AI assistant, simply point SciKick to your project folder. It retrieves the most relevant information from your manuscripts, supporting documents, and literature for every conversation, giving you context-aware answers throughout the research lifecycle. ## What SciKick can do Whether you're preparing a new manuscript or responding to peer review, SciKick helps you: * Brainstorm research ideas and experimental directions * Discuss manuscripts and improve scientific writing * Analyze manuscripts, supplemental material, reviewer comments, and other research documents * Import and analyze selected online research articles alongside your project files * Ask questions about your research and receive context-aware answers * Identify missing information, knowledge gaps, and opportunities to strengthen your manuscript * Recommend what to add, where to add it, and which document should be updated * Plan revisions and organize next steps * Draft and refine responses to reviewers * Summarize documents and literature * Maintain continuity across long-term research projects * Set a project goal—paper revision, grant writing, application, or brainstorming—and SciKick tailors its guidance to that purpose, including journal-specific formatting notes ## Built for researchers SciKick works directly with your Google Drive research folders, keeping manuscripts, figures, supplemental files, reviewer comments, and related documents organized in one place. When you load a project, SciKick asks what you're working toward—a manuscript revision, a grant, an application, or open brainstorming—and shapes its suggestions around that goal, with a quick recap each time you return. To maintain continuity across sessions, SciKick automatically creates and updates a **.scikick_memory.json** file within your project folder. This project memory preserves important discussions, decisions, plans, and research context, allowing you—or SciKick running on another computer—to quickly pick up where you left off without losing momentum. Need additional context? SciKick can import selected research articles from the web, allowing your AI assistant to reason over both your project documents and relevant literature in the same conversation. ## Choose your AI You're in control of the AI model you use. SciKick connects to local language models or cloud providers through your own API credentials, including Anthropic Claude, OpenAI, DeepSeek, GLM, and OpenAI-compatible APIs. Choose the model that best fits your workflow, privacy requirements, and budget. ## Why researchers choose SciKick * Context-aware conversations across your entire research project * Support for manuscripts, supplemental files, reviewer comments, figures, and research documents * Import selected online research articles for additional context * Intelligent revision planning and manuscript improvement * Recommendations for what to add and where to add it * Persistent project memory through **.scikick_memory.json** * Continue your work seamlessly across sessions and computers * Support for local and cloud AI models * Bring your own API key—no required subscriptions or vendor lock-in * Dark and light themes * No third-party servers required for your research workflow