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About Scholardo

Scholardo is the workbench for agentic research workflow, on macOS and Windows, built on one bet: an AI agent should be a participant in the research, not a chat window bolted onto a reference manager.

Why it exists

Research tooling today is split down the middle. The reference manager holds your library, your annotations and the page you are on, and knows nothing about your agent. The agent can read, write and run code, and cannot see a single one of your sources — so you copy a passage across, and paste the answer back.

Scholardo removes that errand. The agents and the researcher share one library, one set of annotations, and the same live reading context: through 40+ native MCP tools, Scholardo's agent team — or any MCP-compatible CLI you prefer — can search your library, read the highlights you made, create and update notes, and see which file you have open and which page you are on; when the Conversation Agent drafts, it cites works from your library by their citation keys. One limit, stated plainly: annotations are read-only to every agent — they read the highlights you made but never make them. This is not a chat window embedded in a reader — it is the research material itself made available to the agent.

How it is built

  • One app, two platforms: macOS 14 and later (Apple Silicon and Intel) and Windows 10 and later (x64), with the same features on both.
  • Local first: each project is an ordinary folder on your own disk, and sources, annotations, notes and session history are files inside it; the search index is local too, and can be rebuilt at any time. No cloud sync, and no account for local use.
  • No telemetry: the app collects no usage statistics, behavioural analytics or crash reports. The privacy policy has the detail.
  • Your keys, your calls: AI features run on API keys you supply, held in the system credential store (the Keychain on macOS, Credential Manager on Windows), with requests going straight to the provider. Search, annotation, citation and web capture need no key at all.

How it is funded

Scholardo is closed-source commercial software, independently built and self-funded. It has exactly one revenue source: software licences, by subscription or one-time. No advertising, no data sold, and no investors to show a growth curve to.

That is the same decision as the ones above, seen from the other side: a product that does not make money from your data can afford to leave all of it on your machine.

Your material, your model, your machine. We only wire them together.

Contact

Product questions, billing, refunds and team licensing all reach a human at , or through the contact form. For how to use the app, see the documentation.

Also here: Privacy Policy · Terms of Service