Sideric
An AI research workspace for exploring questions, following sources and building on what you find.
Product interface · staged presentation with demonstration data
Problem & context
Research needs more than a one-off answer: source material, citations and the relationship between questions should remain accessible.
My contribution
Built bounded retrieval, ranking, persistent research history and cited synthesis. Added visible search activity, a source drawer and contextual follow-ups. Added an image gallery filtered against query terms, with links to the original image pages.
Decisions & tradeoffs
Keep provider credentials outside the application. Make suggestions editable before submission, preserve follow-up relationships, and retain source activity after cancellation or a failed generation.
Keep image discovery separate from factual synthesis: images do not enter the evidence packet or generation prompt. Term matching narrows results without guaranteeing their relevance.
Outcome
Implemented source-grounded answers with persistent history, contextual follow-ups and inspectable research activity.
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