Instruments for thinking, not machines that think for you.
Desktop software for researchers. Each tool implements an explicit method, keeps your work in open files on your own computer, and works with the AI agent you already use, under your review.11heuretika, from the Greek heuriskein, “to find”. A heuristic is a method that helps you find, without promising what you will find.
Founding price for people on the list. One email when early access opens.
The instruments
Each one implements a method with a name and a literature behind it. They share a design: plain files, a clear model, and a command line your agent can use.
Academic Studio
A writing studio for theses, articles and books, on plain Markdown.
Pre-sale soonVersion 0.8
ST-Graph
Follow how a proposal gains and loses its allies, version by version.
In the workshopVersion 0.1
Grounded
Qualitative analysis that shows you what your theory is missing.
In the workshopVersion 0.1
Emergent Societies
Agent-based models you can specify, replicate and defend.
On the drawing board
zotero-agent
Full local control of your Zotero library, from your terminal or your AI agent.
Free and open sourceVersion 0.8
What we hold to
- Instruments, not oracles.
- The software helps you think; it does not think for you.
- Your files, your machine.
- Open formats on your own disk, readable without us, for decades.
- Bring your own agent.
- We ship no model and hold no keys; nothing leaves your computer unless you send it.
- Method made explicit.
- Every tool names the theory it implements and the decisions it makes for you.
- Every suggestion is visible.
- Machine contributions are attributed, reviewable and reversible.
- Craft over volume.
- Built for researchers who must explain how they reached a conclusion.
- Priced honestly.
- Pay once for software; pay monthly only for services that cost us monthly.
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Who makes this
heuretika is the independent software line of Alex Ojeda Copa, a software, data and AI engineer and social scientist in Cochabamba, Bolivia. These are the instruments he wanted for his own research and teaching, built to be shared.