The intelligence layer

Your notes don't need a home.
They need a mind.

Hicks doesn't file your thinking. It follows it — and tells you what it sees.

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The uncomfortable truth

You already know more than
you think you know.
You just can't find it.

You captured the idea. You wrote the note. You saved the article, highlighted the passage, typed the thought at midnight when it felt urgent.

And then it disappeared. Not deleted — just buried. Somewhere in a folder inside a folder, tagged with a word you no longer use, timestamped on a Tuesday you can barely remember.

This is why most people abandon their knowledge systems within a week. Not because the tool is wrong. Not because the methodology is wrong. Because the daily cost of sorting, filing, connecting, and maintaining a vault exceeds what any person will sustain indefinitely.

Storage is solved. Retrieval is engineering. What nobody has built is the methodology — the system that decides what connects to what, what to revisit, what to let go. The agent that does the maintenance humans cannot sustain.

That is what Hicks is.

Every other tool gives you
a vault.
Hicks gives you a mind.

The old way
A very organised attic
Notion. Obsidian. Roam. They are extraordinary filing systems. They store everything you've ever thought, beautifully labelled and perfectly retrievable — if you know exactly what you're looking for.
  • Surfaces notes when you search for them
  • Connects ideas you already know are connected
  • Returns what you put in
  • Remembers everything, understands nothing
  • Silent between searches
Hicks
A living intelligence
Hicks watches how you think — not just what you write. It notices when two ideas have been growing in parallel for three weeks without ever touching. Then it tells you. And it tells you why.
  • Surfaces notes before you know you need them
  • Finds connections you didn't know existed
  • Shows you what your thinking is becoming
  • Knows the difference between a reference and a live idea
  • Speaks when it has something worth saying
The feature that changes everything

Every suggestion
comes with a why.

Hicks never just says "these might be related." It tells you what it noticed, how long it's been watching, and why right now is the moment to pay attention.

Hicks noticed something
"You've been building these two ideas in parallel for 18 days. They've never touched. That might be the most important thing you haven't written yet."
Why this, why now
  • You've returned to Agent Memory Architecture six times since March 4th — each time adding, never concluding
  • Graph Traversal Patterns has been growing in the same direction, written on different days, never linked
  • Both are at peak activity this week — the thinking is live, not historical
  • No connection exists between them despite three weeks of parallel development
A bridge appeared
"These two ideas have never met — but there's a note between them that connects to both. You may have already written the bridge without realising it."
The connection
  • Knowledge Representation links to both Agent Memory and Graph Traversal — it is the bridge
  • All three notes are live threads you're actively developing
  • The indirect relationship between the outer two is stronger than any individual connection
While you sleep

Hicks thinks
while you don't.

Every night, Hicks runs. Not because you asked it to — because your vault is always accumulating faster than you can process it. While you're away, it finds the patterns, consolidates the fragments, flags the contradictions, and surfaces what's ready. You wake up to a vault that has done its own thinking.

While you sleep
The fragments become threads
Brain Dump captures that captured the idea but never became a note — processed, named, filed. The raw thinking finds its place.
While you sleep
The connections reveal themselves
Threads that have been growing in parallel without touching — Hicks finds them, scores them, and brings them to you in the morning with a reason.
While you sleep
The contradictions are named
Two notes that pull in opposite directions. A belief you held in March that conflicts with what you wrote in October. Hicks flags it. You decide.
Nothing is changed without your approval. Hicks suggests. You confirm.

What it feels like when
your thinking finally
starts talking to itself.

01
The conclusion you already reached
You've been writing about the same problem from four different angles for two months. Different notes, different days, different moods. You thought you were still working on it. Hicks tells you that you finished it three weeks ago — you just never wrote the final line.
"You have everything you need. You're just not ready to commit to saying it."
02
The idea that came back
A thread you started six weeks ago went quiet. You moved on. Then you started something new — and Hicks noticed the two share territory you've never mapped. The old thread isn't dead. It was waiting for you to be ready for it.
"You started something here. You might be ready to finish it now."
03
The tension you were avoiding
Two of your most active threads point in opposite directions. You wrote them weeks apart, in different contexts. Hicks sees the contradiction and names it. Sometimes the most important thought is the one that makes two ideas fight.
"These two notes pull against each other. That tension might be the whole point."
04
The morning it all made sense
You open the app. Hicks has been thinking overnight. It surfaces one thread — not because it's new, but because it's been building for three weeks without a conclusion, and this morning you finally have the words for it. Some insights have to be waited for. Hicks waits with you.
"You've circled this seven times. Today feels different. What are you waiting to say?"
The Hicks promise
"I am Hicks — your living memory that metabolizes, dreams, and reweaves itself."
Hicks · Est. 2026

Local-first. Your data lives on your machine.
No account. No cloud. No one watching but Hicks.

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