Quimy is the AI engine inside Quikly. It’s included in every plan — you don’t need your own API keys to use it. Quimy handles brief analysis, requirement generation, rate recommendations, risk analysis, and proposal quality evaluation.
Brief analysis
When you paste a brief and click Analyze with Quimy, the AI processes your input and generates structured output for the proposal.
What you provide:
- A project brief in any format: email, notes, meeting transcript, bullet points, or a formal document.
- Optionally, attached files (PDFs, images, spreadsheets).
- Project context: client name, proposal type, team members, start date, deadline, budget.
What Quimy returns:
- Structured requirements — each with a description, acceptance criteria, complexity score (1/3/5/8 story points), and hour estimate.
- Delivery conditions — verifiable conditions for each deliverable.
- Out-of-scope definitions — what the proposal explicitly does not cover.
- Risk analysis — identified risks with severity, probability, and mitigation strategies.
- Governance section — warranty period, revision rounds, change request process.
Quimy adapts its output to the selected proposal type. A Technical Proposal gets story points and per-requirement estimates. A Retainer gets suggested monthly hours and SLA terms. A Milestone proposal gets deliverables grouped into phases.
Brief discovery
Before generating requirements, Quimy evaluates the quality of your brief and helps you fill gaps.
Quality score (1–10):
| Range | Meaning | Recommendation |
|---|
| 8–10 | Clear scope | Ready to generate. Send the clarifying questions to your client later. |
| 5–7 | Good starting point | You can generate now. Consider asking the client these questions to refine scope. |
| 1–4 | More context needed | Add more detail — features, timeline, or technical constraints. |
- Scope — missing features, ambiguous requirements.
- Technical — stack decisions, infrastructure, third-party dependencies.
- Business — budget expectations, success criteria, stakeholders.
- Timeline — deadlines, phasing, milestones.
- Budget — range, payment terms, approval process.
- Users — target audience, expected load, accessibility.
- Integrations — external systems, APIs, data sources.
You can copy all questions to your clipboard and send them to your client via email or chat before generating the proposal.
Rate recommendation
Quimy suggests hourly rates based on multiple factors:
- Role and seniority — different rates for junior, mid, senior, and lead positions.
- Region — market benchmarks adjusted for geographic location.
- Industry — client industry affects rate expectations.
- Project complexity — more complex projects justify higher rates.
- Client company size — enterprise clients typically accept higher rates than startups.
- Your profile data — work areas, specialty, and historical rate preferences.
You can also use the Rate Calculator at app.getquikly.com/rate-calculator — a free tool that gives you market rate benchmarks without creating a proposal.
Quimy suggests rates, but you always have the final say. Every number in the proposal is editable before sharing.
Differentiators generation
When you generate scope, Quimy also identifies what makes your proposal stand out. It analyzes the project context and your profile to suggest differentiators — technical advantages, relevant experience, methodology, or unique capabilities your team brings.
These appear in a dedicated section of the proposal document and help justify your rate to the client.
Requirement actions
Each generated requirement supports AI-powered actions:
| Action | What it does |
|---|
| Rephrase | Rewrites the requirement for clarity without changing its meaning |
| Expand | Adds detail — sub-tasks, edge cases, technical considerations |
| Suggest complexity | Recommends a story point value based on the requirement’s scope |
| Split | Breaks a large requirement into smaller, independently deliverable pieces |
| Iterate with natural language | You type a free-text instruction (e.g., “make this requirement include API rate limiting”) and Quimy updates it accordingly |
Governance and risks
For every proposal type, Quimy can generate:
- SOW-grade governance — warranty period, revision policy, change request process, escalation path, and payment terms.
- Risk analysis — a list of identified risks with severity (high/medium/low), probability, impact description, and recommended mitigation.
- Out-of-scope clauses — explicit boundaries that protect against scope creep.
- Service commitments — SLAs, response times, and uptime targets (especially for Retainer and Staff Augmentation types).
You toggle visibility of governance and risk sections in the proposal settings. They appear in the shared document when enabled.
Alignment questions
After sharing a proposal, you can generate alignment questions from the Follow-up tab. These are post-proposal questions designed to align expectations with the client before kickoff.
The alignment flow works as a stepper:
- Quimy generates questions covering scope interpretation, priorities, communication preferences, and success criteria.
- You review and optionally edit the questions.
- Share the questions with your client via the proposal link.
- Responses feed into a kickoff checklist — a structured summary of agreed-upon expectations.
AI providers
Quimy is included in all plans with its own AI quota — you don’t need to bring your own keys.
Bring Your Own Key (BYOK) is optional. If you prefer to use your own API key, Quikly supports:
- Google Gemini
- OpenAI (GPT-4o and later)
- Anthropic (Claude)
When you configure a BYOK key in Settings → AI, Quimy uses your key instead of the built-in quota. This is useful if you want higher throughput or prefer a specific model.
Quimy quotas by plan:
| Plan | AI analyses | Agent conversations |
|---|
| Starter | 10 per trial | 3 |
| Professional | Unlimited | 50/month |
| Agency | Unlimited | 500/month |
| Lifetime | Unlimited | Unlimited |
Quimy Pro, available on Agency and Lifetime plans, uses advanced AI models for deeper analysis — more nuanced risk detection, better rate calibration, and richer governance suggestions.
