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Research, quietly done.
The complete research system for human subjects work. Qualitative analysis, quantitative methods, mixed methods integration, literature management, transcription, and dissertation writing — in a single private environment. Available in English, French, German, Spanish, Dutch, and Brazilian Portuguese. Available in two editions: Sotto Scholar for faculty researchers, and Sotto Student for doctoral candidates.
Most AI tools for researchers were built for general audiences and adapted afterward. Sotto was designed from the start around one constraint: your research data cannot leave an environment you control.
The problem
When you upload interview transcripts, survey data, or field notes to a general-purpose AI, that data passes through servers you don't control. Researchers find this out at the wrong moment — usually after data has already moved.
The approach
Whether you run Sotto on your own hardware or in a dedicated private instance on AWS or Azure, your data exists in an environment only you can access. No commingling, no third-party processing, no exceptions. That's a structural guarantee — not a privacy setting you have to remember to turn on.
"Your data exists in an environment only you can access — whether that's your own machine or a dedicated private instance in the cloud."
Single-tenant isolation means no other researcher's data shares your environment, no inference passes through shared infrastructure, and no participant information touches a general-purpose AI service.
Most research tools do one thing well. Sotto covers the full arc — from raw data to published findings — treating qualitative, quantitative, and mixed methods work as the distinct research paradigms they are. No other system does all three.
Qualitative
Audio-to-text runs locally — your interview recordings are transcribed with speaker turns, formatted, and ready for coding. Ask Sotto to surface recurring themes, trace a concept across participants, or draft a reflective memo after a session. Grounded theory, thematic analysis, phenomenological methods — Sotto works within your methodology, not around it.
From transcription through thematic analysis — the complete qualitative workflow
Quantitative
Bring your datasets, survey output, and statistical results into Sotto alongside your research questions. Ask it to help interpret findings, explain what your numbers mean in relation to your theoretical framework, and translate statistical output into language your readers can follow.
Works with survey data, regression output, and descriptive statistics
Mixed Methods
Mixed methods research asks Sotto to hold two different types of evidence at once. It can cross-reference interview themes with survey distributions, help you write an integration discussion that speaks to both strands, and flag where your qualitative and quantitative findings converge or diverge.
Convergent design, explanatory sequential, integration discussions
Available in English, French, German, Spanish, Dutch, and Brazilian Portuguese.
Both editions are in active development. Early access is limited — let us know which edition you're interested in and we'll reach out when it's ready.