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AI Agents That Do Real Research

K‑Dense builds AI agents that autonomously execute complex work across science, engineering, healthcare, and finance — delivered as a hosted platform, a lab instrument, enterprise deployments, open-source tools, and a growing suite of free research tools.

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University of Pennsylvania
Atlas Biotech
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Our Products

One Mission, Many Tools

From our flagship hosted research agent to free open-source tools you can run today — every K‑Dense product is built to accelerate real research.

K-Dense Web

Paid

Research. Analyze. Synthesize.

Our hosted AI research agent with access to 250+ databases, hundreds of thousands of on-demand tools, and native support for 200+ scientific data formats. Autonomously executes complex tasks across science, engineering, healthcare, finance, and beyond.

Faraday

Custom Pricing

The AI co-scientist that lives in your lab

An AI co-scientist delivered as a laboratory instrument. Faraday brings frontier-grade research capability to the bench on hardware you own, so your data, structures, and results stay inside the building. Every outbound request is screened by a sovereignty gate, and questions for a frontier model wait for your approval.

K-Dense Enterprise

Custom Pricing

The research agent, deployed your way

K-Dense for organizations: private deployments, custom integrations with your internal data and tools, dedicated support, and deployment inside the environment your own security team governs.

Free & Open Source1,249 GitHub stars as of September 24, 2026

K-Dense BYOK

Your local AI co-scientist

A free, open-source research assistant called Kady that runs on your desktop with the models you choose: OpenRouter, your own API keys, supported AI subscriptions, or local models. It can answer directly, delegate bigger tasks to specialist agents, and run multiple chats in parallel.

Free & Open Source2,388 GitHub stars as of September 24, 2026

Claude Scientific Writer

Research-backed scientific writing

A deep research and writing tool for publication-ready papers, reports, posters, grant proposals, literature reviews, and other academic documents. It researches before writing, supports real-time literature lookup, verifies citations, converts documents, and can run as a Claude Code plugin, Python package, or native CLI.

Free & Open Source46,505 GitHub stars as of September 24, 2026

Scientific Agent Skills

160+ ready-to-use scientific skills

A comprehensive collection of scientific and research skills for any AI agent that supports the open Agent Skills standard. Covers biology, chemistry, medicine, cancer genomics, drug-target binding, molecular dynamics, RNA velocity, geospatial science, time series forecasting, 78+ scientific databases, and more.

New free tool

Rigor Scan

Drop in a paper and see how completely it reports its design, statistics, materials, data and claims. Every result points to the evidence on the page, and the gaps can go straight to K‑Dense Web to fix.

  • 74 published reporting checks, each linked to the sentence it rests on
  • Statistics recalculated, references checked for retractions, problem cell lines flagged
  • Your PDF is read in your browser and never uploaded; only its text is sent for checking, and nothing is saved
79Completeness index
Example: Dubowitz et al., PLOS ONE 2023

New free tool

Claimscape

Type a claim and see where the published literature stands on it: up to 300 of the most relevant PubMed abstracts, sorted by study design and plotted over time, so you can tell which kinds of evidence agree. The next steps can go straight to K‑Dense Web.

  • Up to 300 PubMed abstracts read per map, each one opening on the sentence its verdict rests on
  • Every study design summarized with a share for and a 95% interval
  • Retracted papers removed; reviews shown but never counted
Meta-analyses & systematic reviewsRandomized trialsObservational studies1990200020102020
Example: hormone therapy and heart disease, 129 papers

Free tool

Pantheon

Ask a science or research question and hear it argued by 80 minds at once: scientists, founders, philosophers and AI researchers, from Aristotle to Karpathy. You get the range of answers, the sources behind them, and the points the panel keeps coming back to.

  • 80 personas answer in parallel, each in its own voice, in about a minute
  • Replies grounded in cited web sources, then a consensus of where the panel agrees and splits
  • Personas are built from each person's public writing; replies never come from the real people
Pantheon partway through answering “Is caloric restriction worth doing for longevity?”: cited sources from PubMed Central, Columbia Public Health, HHMI and the Jackson Laboratory above a grid of scientist personas, some replied and some still speaking
Example: caloric restriction and longevity, 64 of 80 voices in

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What Researchers Say

From the People Doing the Work

“This platform is essentially providing me a dozen PhDs and postdocs in my pocket. I see myself as the PI, asking questions to my postdocs, and my postdocs just keep giving me the information. It’s a postdoc that never says ‘I don’t know.’”
Interdisciplinary researcherPhysics and biology, deep-tech founder
“You upload a bunch of Excel spreadsheets and, without too much description, it figures out where the fold change is and then goes and does all the statistics. I thought it might struggle with figuring out all these columns, but it was remarkably good with that. It’s also much better at finding references than ChatGPT.”
Principal investigatorMulti-omics lab, research university
“I was very impressed with the original reports it was able to generate — the workflow was solid in terms of the actual analysis it was doing. A workflow like that by hand would take me a week, two weeks. I didn’t mind letting it go off and think for seven hours, because the output was such high quality.”
Cancer researcherBioinformatics and wet lab

Open Source

Built in the Open

We ship 10 open-source libraries, skills, and tools that anyone can use — with or without a K‑Dense account. From agent skills for scientific computing to a full desktop research assistant.

Backed by

Accel
Accel Atoms
Google AI Futures Fund