The CogniChem Assistant is a chat in the app. Describe what you want to find out, for example "dock these five SMILES against COX-2 and rank them", and it works out which tools or workflow to use, looks up the data it needs, and proposes runs with their prices.
What it can do
- Find the right workflow or tool from the CogniChem catalog, and check a workflow before proposing it.
- Look up compounds and targets live in PubChem, ChEMBL, Open Targets, UniProt, and the RCSB PDB. Each result links to its source record.
- Read the method papers behind each tool.
- Price runs at your plan's rates and check your wallet.
- Propose runs as plan cards for you to approve.
- Follow results of runs started from the conversation and read the files they produce.
It cannot start, cancel, or delete anything on its own. Those tools are not available to it.
Plan cards: nothing runs until you approve
When the Assistant proposes a run, the conversation shows a plan card: the job or workflow, its inputs, and the server's estimate. Then:
- Approve starts the run. CogniChem checks the plan again and re-prices it at your current rates first. If the price went up, nothing starts and the card shows the new price to approve. If your wallet can't cover it, the card stays pending until you add funds.
- Dismiss discards it.
- Open in builder (workflow cards) opens the plan in the workflow builder as a draft you can edit and run yourself.
A card expires 30 minutes after it is proposed. Approved runs show their status on the card and appear in your job queue or workflow runs like any other.
Files
Attach protein structures (PDB), molecules (SDF, MOL), or SMILES lists to a message. They are stored as artifacts in your library, and the Assistant passes them to tools by reference. File contents are not added to the conversation or shared with anyone.
What it costs
Each turn is charged for the language-model tokens it uses, at your plan's rates; runs you approve are charged like any other job or workflow. Before a turn starts, CogniChem holds enough to cover it; afterwards you pay for the tokens used and the rest is released. Stopping a turn charges only for what was used so far.
Each conversation has a spend cap of $1.00. When the next turn would pass it, the Assistant stops and asks whether to continue; continuing raises that conversation's cap by $1.00.
| Tokens | Basic | Starter | Pro | Enterprise |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Input | $0.70 | $0.50 | $0.40 | $0.30 |
| Cached input | $0.070 | $0.050 | $0.040 | $0.030 |
| Output | $4.20 | $3.00 | $2.40 | $1.80 |
| Tokens | Basic | Starter | Pro | Enterprise |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Input | $7.00 | $5.00 | $4.00 | $3.00 |
| Cached input | $0.700 | $0.500 | $0.400 | $0.300 |
| Output | $35.00 | $25.00 | $20.00 | $15.00 |
The High reasoning level uses a stronger model for harder planning, at higher token rates.
Your data
Lookups send only names and IDs to the outside databases. Similarity and substructure search in ChEMBL needs a structure (a SMILES string) to leave CogniChem, so it is off until you turn on structure search for that conversation. The Assistant cannot turn it on itself.
The Assistant covers the details: limits, the turn time limit, and how plan cards are checked.