Getting started

Create your account

Sign up with your e-mail address and a password of at least ten characters, or with a passkey. Passwords are checked against a list of common choices before they are accepted, so pick a phrase of several words.

A verification link goes to your inbox. You can use the platform straight away; the banner at the top disappears once the address is confirmed. Verification unlocks project invitations by e-mail, digests and account recovery.

The four onboarding steps

1. Who you are: display name, position, institution, department and country. This is how colleagues see you on projects and in messages.
2. What you work on: research interests, methods, discipline and career stage. Discovery and journal recommendations use these as defaults.
3. ORCID: type your iD (the check digit is validated) or sign in with ORCID. Linking lets you import publications and keeps citation metrics current.
4. Publications: paste DOIs or PubMed IDs, or import everything from ORCID in one click.

Every step can be skipped and finished later under Settings. “Skip for now” takes you straight to your projects.

Start a project

1. Open Projects and choose New project.
2. Give it a name, a field and a type (standard research, systematic review, meta-analysis, clinical trial…). The type decides which tabs are switched on.
3. Invite collaborators from the Team tab with a link or by e-mail; titles such as principal investigator, co-investigator or research assistant map to permissions.

A project holds everything for one piece of work: team, tasks, meetings, files, the reference library, evidence, screening, analyses, manuscripts, submissions and the conversations your AI agent has about it.

Connect your AI

Hikma runs no models of its own: the AI you work with is the one you already use. Open the project's Your AI tab, pick your client — Claude Code, Claude Desktop, claude.ai, ChatGPT, Codex, Cursor, VS Code, Windsurf, Zed or Cline — and copy the command it shows you. Signing in through the client (OAuth) or a personal key both take one step, and the panel confirms as soon as your agent makes its first call.

Then ask in your own client, in plain language: “in project X, find randomised trials of amiodarone prophylaxis after cardiac surgery since 2015, add the most relevant ones and draft the evidence section”. Your agent searches the backbone sources through Hikma, adds the works to the project, reads the full texts the platform can fetch and writes into your manuscript as tracked changes. Everything it does appears back in the Your AI tab as a conversation.

Phone, tablet and desktop

The web app adapts to narrow screens: side panels become drawers, the manuscript workspace keeps a floating action button for its panels and comments, and the bottom bar gives one-tap access to home, discover, projects, notes and your profile.

Desktop applications for Windows, macOS and Linux and a mobile app are on the roadmap; they share the same account and data.