A desktop research IDE that keeps a hypothesis and the evidence for and against it in one place — papers, your own data, the analyses you ran, and what you concluded.
Your data stays on your machine. Standpoint reads a raw data file only when you grant that specific file, one file at a time. There is no background upload and no side door — not for analysis, not for the AI features, not for us.
We're onboarding in batches so that everyone who hits a problem can actually get help. Enter your email and you'll get a one-time activation code, or a note that you're on the list.
We store your address encrypted, use it to send your code and nothing else, and we don't pass it to anyone. No password, no account to log into.
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Install it whenever — the app asks for your code on first launch, and these links always point at the current version.
The app is self-distributed, so your operating system will show a security warning or two on first install. That's expected, and it's about the app not being from an app store — not about anything being wrong with it.
Windows: SmartScreen may say "Windows protected your PC" → click More info → Run anyway.
Mac: right-click (or Control-click) the app in Applications → Open → Open. If a newer macOS still refuses, run this once in Terminal and then open it normally:
xattr -dr com.apple.quarantine "/Applications/Standpoint.Bio.app"That clears the "downloaded from the internet" flag. You only need it once.
Open the app and choose I have a code, then type in the
XXXX-XXXX-XXXX code from your email. It works once, on one machine.
You can activate a second machine by asking for another code.
If your code expired or went to spam, ask for a new one:
After you activate, the app asks one question: whether it may report a short, fixed list of usage counts — how many papers you extracted, which analyses you ran, whether you used the Word add-in, and roughly how long the app was in front of you. It's counts and categories only.
It cannot carry file names, folder names, your hypothesis or conclusion text, queries, column names, or anything you typed — not as a matter of intent but of construction: every field is a number or one of a fixed set of words, checked in the app and again on the server. Settings has an inspector that shows you the exact bytes before they're sent, and the complete list of what the app is ever able to send. Saying no costs you nothing.