diff --git a/Project.toml b/Project.toml
index 7bb35c956..88c9f86ac 100644
--- a/Project.toml
+++ b/Project.toml
@@ -21,6 +21,7 @@ Setfield = "efcf1570-3423-57d1-acb7-fd33fddbac46"
 SparseArrays = "2f01184e-e22b-5df5-ae63-d93ebab69eaf"
 SpecialFunctions = "276daf66-3868-5448-9aa4-cd146d93841b"
 StaticArrays = "90137ffa-7385-5640-81b9-e52037218182"
+SymbolicIndexingInterface = "2efcf032-c050-4f8e-a9bb-153293bab1f5"
 TimerOutputs = "a759f4b9-e2f1-59dc-863e-4aeb61b1ea8f"
 Unityper = "a7c27f48-0311-42f6-a7f8-2c11e75eb415"
 
@@ -40,6 +41,7 @@ NaNMath = "0.3, 1"
 Setfield = "0.7, 0.8, 1"
 SpecialFunctions = "0.10, 1.0, 2"
 StaticArrays = "0.12, 1.0"
+SymbolicIndexingInterface = "0.3"
 TimerOutputs = "0.5"
 Unityper = "0.1.2"
 julia = "1.3"
diff --git a/src/SymbolicUtils.jl b/src/SymbolicUtils.jl
index fab2b8645..d7e6a6a80 100644
--- a/src/SymbolicUtils.jl
+++ b/src/SymbolicUtils.jl
@@ -13,6 +13,7 @@ using Unityper
 using DataStructures
 using Setfield
 import Setfield: PropertyLens
+using SymbolicIndexingInterface
 import Base: +, -, *, /, //, \, ^, ImmutableDict
 using ConstructionBase
 include("interface.jl")
diff --git a/src/types.jl b/src/types.jl
index c646ec47c..840f8a6e1 100644
--- a/src/types.jl
+++ b/src/types.jl
@@ -61,6 +61,10 @@ const EMPTY_DICT_T = typeof(EMPTY_DICT)
     end
 end
 
+function SymbolicIndexingInterface.symbolic_type(::Type{<:BasicSymbolic})
+    ScalarSymbolic()
+end
+
 function exprtype(x::BasicSymbolic)
     @compactified x::BasicSymbolic begin
         Term => TERM