Sotto — How to Access
Sotto runs wherever you do your research — including on a Chromebook, a lab workstation, or a managed institutional device.
Choose the deployment model that fits your institution, your hardware, and your workflow. Either way, your research data stays in an environment only you control.
Cloud marketplace
Spin up a dedicated Sotto environment on AWS or Azure — no GPU required on your end. Access it from any browser, on any device, including Chromebooks and managed institutional machines. Your instance is single-tenant: isolated infrastructure that only you can reach.
Local deployment
Run Sotto on your own machine — analysis, transcription, coding, and literature search all operate without an internet connection. A good choice for researchers who simply prefer to keep everything on their own hardware.
Setup takes under 30 minutes whether you're launching a private cloud instance or installing locally. Once your research environment is ready, Sotto stays ready.
Launch a private Sotto instance from the AWS or Azure Marketplace — or install locally on a Windows or Mac research machine. Either way, nothing is shared.
Add transcripts, literature, working documents, survey data, and institutional files. Sotto indexes everything privately — it knows your project, not the internet's version of your topic.
Ask questions, surface patterns, generate visualizations, write memos, and work through your writing — in conversation with an assistant that understands your full project.
Automatic nightly encrypted backups to your institution's secure storage. Your data stays yours — in your environment, on your schedule, under your control.
What to expect
Most of which is the AI model downloading. The installer handles everything automatically — no terminal required. During setup, select your working language — English, French, German, Spanish, Dutch, or Brazilian Portuguese. You can change it anytime in Settings.