K-Dense BYOK

🎥 Webinar recording: Getting Started with K-Dense BYOK

An online walkthrough of installing Kady and running your first research task, with live Q&A.

👉 Watch the recording on YouTube

Your own AI research assistant, running on your computer, powered by the accounts and API keys you choose.

K-Dense BYOK (Bring Your Own Keys) is a free, open-source app that gives you Kady — an AI research assistant for scientists in any field. Describe a task in plain language — analyze this dataset, review my manuscript, search the literature, build this figure — and Kady works through it in a complete research workspace. It can inspect your files, write and run analysis code, search and read sources, create figures and reports, and keep a living record of what it did.

Four things to know up front:

• No coding experience required. You describe what you want; Kady writes and runs the code and shows you its progress as it works.
• Every step is on the record. Kady keeps a lab notebook of its reasoning and a separate, automatically recorded log of what actually ran and which files each step produced, so results can be checked, traced, and reproduced.
• Your workspace stays on your computer. Projects, conversations, notebooks, and results live in ordinary folders on your machine; K-Dense does not host or store them. When you use a hosted AI model, the material needed for that request is sent directly to the provider you selected under that provider's privacy terms. Use a local Ollama model when data must not leave your machine.
• The app itself is free; provider charges and limits remain yours. Use prepaid OpenRouter, connect a supported AI subscription, or run free local models. Kady tracks paid OpenRouter usage and Anthropic OAuth's documented metered extra usage against project spending caps. ChatGPT, Copilot, xAI, Kimi Code, and Meta Muse subscription usage is tracked separately because those providers manage quotas and overages; a subscription login does not imply unlimited or free usage.

Beta: K-Dense BYOK is currently in beta. Many features and improvements are on the way. Star us on GitHub to stay in the loop, and follow K-Dense on X, LinkedIn, YouTube, and Reddit for release notes and tutorials.

🎬 Prefer to watch first? The Future of Research is Open: Introducing K-Dense BYOK walks through what the app does and how to get set up. More walkthroughs in Tutorial videos.

📄 Read the paper: K-Dense BYOK: An Open-Source AI Research Assistant That Runs Locally and Keeps a Hash-Chained Lab Notebook (arXiv:2610.00074). If you use K-Dense BYOK in your research, please cite it.

CompBioBench

As of September 11, 2026, K-Dense BYOK holds #2 on the public CompBioBench v1 leaderboard.

CompBioBench is a Genentech benchmark of 100 computational-biology tasks. Each task has one exact-match answer. The gold answers stay on the leaderboard, so an independent grader scores every run.