How the platform thinks

Evidence before prose

Claims are built from anchored evidence: a quotation, the page it comes from and the work it belongs to. Evidence is extracted first and prose written second — by you, or by the AI agent you connect — so every sentence in a draft can be traced back.

When a source cannot be read (paywalled, no open-access copy), the platform says so rather than guessing from an abstract.

Sources are canonical

A paper is one record however many times it is found. OpenAlex, Crossref, PubMed, Europe PMC, arXiv, Semantic Scholar, ClinicalTrials.gov, Unpaywall and OpenCitations are queried through one registry and de-duplicated into a single work with all its identifiers.

Nothing is overwritten

Manuscript edits by a co-author or by a connected AI agent are tracked changes with an author and a time; accepting one keeps the proposer's name on the text. Versions can be compared and restored. Deleted text never counts as a match in find and replace, and citations survive edits because they are objects, not typed text.

One place per project

Tasks, meetings, files, the reference library, evidence tables, screening decisions, analyses, manuscripts and submissions live in one project with one team and one permission model. You never export from one tool to import into another.

Your data stays yours

By default the platform sends nothing to a language model: your own agent does the reasoning on your own subscription, and Hikma records what it did in the project. Where an administrator has switched the platform's own AI on, the provider keys are held by the administrator, never by you, and every model call is logged under your account with its cost. Profiles have visibility settings, messages have contact preferences, and you can export or delete your account from Settings.