Get to know Sidekick.

Sidekick is the community data assistant powered by artificial intelligence. 

In plain language, tell Sidekick what you want to know and get answers straight from the mySidewalk data library. Sidekick will recommend data, find facts, and create visualizations that work best for your problem, project, or goal.

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mySidewalk is on a mission to put the most innovative technology into the hands of the people solving the world's biggest challenges.

Sidekick is our newest tool designed to help transform the way we access and engage with data.

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Let us count the ways! Sidekick can help you and your teammates:

• Find relevant data quickly. Sidekick can analyze your specific project and goals and draw on its knowledge of the mySidewalk data library to provide tailored data recommendations.
• Create visualizations. Sidekick can help uncover actionable insights through analysis and visualization, enabling a deeper understanding of community issues like housing affordability, inclusive growth, and the social determinants of health.
• Draft compelling data stories. Sidekick can be a strong writing partner — sharing story ideas, distilling complex data topics, and turning data findings into stories that inspire action. 
• Feel confident about results. Sidekick leverages a thoroughly vetted and verified data library. We’re committed to building responsibly with AI for the good of communities everywhere.

Read more about Sidekick's core capabilities and limitations here.

mySidewalk is the only company offering an AI-powered data assistant that’s fully integrated with a community data library of 5 billion data values from 5,000 datasets sourced from 50+ sources with the mission to amplify your impact through:

• Suggesting data
• Answering questions
• Building maps and charts
• Writing data stories

As we continue to develop Sidekick, we aim to help more people who need direct access to reliable and relevant data for the many consequential daily decisions they make.

You can see what we’re planning here — but you influence our roadmap! 

mySidewalk believes that anyone who cares about a place should be able to use data to create positive change. We also believe that the thoughtful application of AI to community data makes this possible.

Read our AI principles in full →

If you'd like to discuss further, please get in touch with your customer relationship manager or email us at hello@mysidewalk.com.

mySidewalk stores all Sidekick messages. We use this data to assess Sidekick’s overall performance and iterate on features to improve results.

As of March 1st, 2023, OpenAI, the vendor mySidewalk uses for LLM integration, retains user data for 30 days but does not use data sent via the API to improve their models. This is how mySidewalk sends data to OpenAI. Here’s their data usage policy.

If you’re a mySidewalk customer, participation in the Open Beta does not impact your current subscription. We’re excited to welcome you to the beta not only so you can test Sidekick and provide feedback, but also so you and your colleagues can get immediate value from what we hope will be a powerful tool for change.

While in beta, we’re providing access to our customers at no additional cost.

Sidekick will remain in Beta until we’re confident it’s providing users value in every interaction. Building an AI product is a process and we’re making incredible progress, but we have high standards and development will likely continue through the end of 2024.

After the Beta ends, we expect Sidekick will be incorporated into every mySidewalk plan with every license. We will communicate early and often when the post-beta plan is finalized and customers will not be charged for licenses added during the beta unless they explicitly choose to add them to their contract.

The number of Sidekick licenses depends on your current subscription.

• If you’re on an Enterprise plan, you have unlimited Sidekick licenses for employees of your organization.
• If you’re on another subscription plan, you have 1 Sidekick license per license included in your current subscription (e.g. 3 user licenses = 3 Sidekick licenses), plus an additional 5 licenses to distribute to colleagues as desired. 

Yes, you can invite 5 additional colleagues beyond the licenses included in your current plan. 

Good question! Sidekick was designed for local government and community leaders, policymakers, grant managers, data analysts and anyone else who care about places. 

Know of an overwhelmed or overworked program manager, information officer, or executive who could use quick access to trustworthy and reliable community data and demographics? They are perfect for Sidekick.

Invite them to Sidekick yourself or share this page with them.

Currently, Sidekick is available to all mySidewalk customers. As a customer, when you create an account, you’ll have access to Sidekick. 

• If you've received an invitation to create your account and need information on how to navigate to Sidekick, go here.

• If for some reason, you create an account and don’t have access, reach out to hello@mysidewalk.com or your customer relationship manager.

• If you’re not a customer and would like information on how to get access to Sidekick, sign up for our waitlist and/or schedule time with our team.

Yes, we’ve made available a how-to guide. 

Throughout the beta, there will be multiple opportunities to share your feedback, and you can always drop your thoughts here.

You might also want to follow the roadmap and changelog to keep track of developments.

If you have a customer success manager, please reach out to them for questions. If you do not have a customer relationship manager or have other questions, we welcome all inquiries to hello@mysidewalk.com.