Research Kick is a suite of AI apps tailor-made for researchers and academics. Our goal is to help people in academia incorporate AI into their work efficiently and ethically.
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I was impressed at its ease of usability and indeed as promised, I was able to generate 10 topic ideas within 4 minutes.
AI apps purpose-built for academics by academics
AI is a transformative tool, but most AI apps aren't designed for academics and can even pose ethical risks to your work. Research Kick changes this by being built exclusively for academics, backed by a team with extensive academic and technical expertise.
Kickstart your research projects, brainstorm research ideas, craft research questions, and identify research gaps
Get access to multiple AI models, connect to research databases, and create agents for all your academic tasks
Plan, collaborate, and track progress on your research projects with your colleagues (coming later this year)
Let us know what challenges you're facing or which apps you wish there were similar solutions customized for academics
We’re a small self-funded team who are passionate to help academics become highly-efficient with AI apps.
Co-Founder
Mushtaq Bilal is a postdoctoral researcher at the University of Southern Denmark’s Hans Christian Andersen Center. He holds a PhD in comparative literature from Binghamton University.
He is known for developing ways of incorporating AI apps into academic writing. He has an audience of more than 225,000 on X and 60,000 on LinkedIn, where he regularly shares tips on how to become an efficient academic writer with AI apps.
He is frequently invited to give talks at leading universities in North America, Europe, and Australia.
His work has been featured in publications like Nature, Der Spiegel, and Times Higher Education.
Co-Founder
Minh-Phuc Tran is an experienced software engineer and serial software entrepreneur. He has been developing software for over a decade, ranging from mission-critical cloud services to modern AI applications.
Prior to running his startups, he held key roles as a lead engineer and a founding engineer at fast-growing startups such as Fig and Web3Auth.
In recent years, he has bootstrapped several successful software products and cultivated a sizable audience of software enthusiasts on X.
His work has been utilized by numerous companies and high-performing individuals worldwide.
