About

The company behind Sotto.

KXR builds software for people who work with sensitive information, where the work has to stay under their control. Sotto is its qualitative research system, made for the people who do the reading, the coding, and the writing.

Why Sotto

Research data deserves an environment the researcher controls.

Most tools ask you to move your data to them. Sotto starts from the opposite premise: the work stays in a place you control, and you decide what, if anything, ever leaves it. That is the whole design, not a feature.

What it is

A complete qualitative research system.

Transcription, thematic analysis, literature management, and writing, built to work within your methodology rather than around it. Quiet by design, so the work stays in front of you. Sotto is sold in four plans, from a free library through the complete workflow for one researcher.

Sotto is sotto voce, under the voice. It is an instrument the researcher plays, not a colleague with opinions.
On the roadmap

What is in active development

Sotto launches in English, on Windows. Here is what is coming next, with no dates until we have them.

PlatformsmacOS and Linux. Windows is available now.
LanguagesAdditional languages beyond English.
MethodsQuantitative and mixed methods, with an integration matrix.
For teamsShared codebooks and more than one coder on the same data.
Contact

Get in touch.

General inquiries

contact@sottolab.com

Including Sotto for a program or a department.

Installed software support

support@sottolab.com

Including installs an IT team will not approve.

Start free. Move up when the work does.

Sotto Stacks needs no payment card and uses the same installer as every paid plan, so you can find out whether Sotto runs on your computer before you pay.