hilo
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HILO: organize your thoughts

A set of tools for working with your documents and your datasets: correcting, editing, summarizing, and coding texts and open-ended questions, operationalizing objectives, diagnosing and merging datasets, building checklists, designing indicators, and making concept maps. You upload your file, work on it, and download the results. AI helps you work and you validate the decisions.

Free, and you sign up without a card Saved to your Drive or Microsoft 365
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Gather a topic

See a topic that appears scattered throughout the document together, and work on it in context. You read, edit, and download.

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Summarize by topic

Gathers all the passages of a topic, ordered by section, into a document you download. For studying or for fixing.

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Edit by topic

The passages of a topic appear together, with their page and context. You fix them on that same screen and download the full document with the changes applied, with the original left untouched.

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Concept map

Graph an idea and its relationships across your whole document. Download as PNG or SVG to illustrate your presentations.

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Code interviews

You upload your interviews to the workstation and code them, for your qualitative analysis. You download the file with all the passages of a code. With AI, the model proposes the codes and you validate the proposals.

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Kappa calculator

Validate the work of the coders on your research team with Cohen's kappa, Fleiss' kappa, and Krippendorff's alpha.

free

Open-ended questions

Code the open-ended questions in your dataset. HILO shows you the quotes and proposes categories for you to validate. You download the column to paste into your dataset.

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Check and merge datasets

Diagnostics of your dataset's problems: broken rows, duplicate cases, missing values, and inconsistencies that sneak into the analysis. And an assistant to merge two whole datasets or by selecting variables.

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Remove identifiers

Replace ID numbers, names and other personal data in your datasets with codes, in your browser. The same codes across files, plus a quick check of uncommon combinations before sharing.

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Unify terminology

The different ways you named the same thing throughout the text, grouped and counted, so you can choose which one to keep.

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Glossary

The terms your document defines, with their definition and the page where they appear. Useful as an appendix.

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Find verbatim quotes

You identify the representative passages from your research or document and extract the quotes. Ideal for illustrating your reports with empirical evidence.

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Check against a list

Checks whether your document meets a list of requirements: the thesis regulation, the audit objectives, or specific clauses. You find on which page each point is covered and which ones are missing.

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Build the logic model

Ideal for strategic planning. You build the logical chain from objectives to results and their indicators. The document is analyzed, the components are organized, and the missing ones are suggested for you to validate.

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Align a program with the SDGs

The targets of a 2030 Agenda goal against your program document. Each target comes back with which part addresses it, or with the fact that it doesn't appear.

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Variable operationalization

You paste the project's objectives and they are matched against the variables in your dataset. Ideal for building variables and indicators and for finding the scope of your data.

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Each passage inside its full paragraph, editable, with the context in view.

Edit the passages together and download your document, the summary, or the concept map of the topic.

Detects contradictions and omissions Finds what the document says twice in different ways, and what it promises but doesn't deliver.
Looks after the internal logic Gathers every mention of a topic so the argument holds up from start to finish.
Who it's for

Tools to assist writing and information analysis, academic and professional

Helps with writing consistency and cuts down review and reading time. Speeds up the analysis of qualitative information. Helps with developing projects and building indicators. AI proposes and you validate: the work process is traceable and transparent. No black box.

Legal

Legal filings and opinions

Gathers every argument, citation, and claim on a single point so you can check that there are no contradictions across the case file.

complaintsexpert opinionscontractsjudgmentscourt filings
Accounting and audit

Audit reports and working papers

Groups all the observations on an account or a finding so you can verify that the report is consistent, from the summary to the conclusions.

audit reportsworking papersfinancial statementsopinionsannual reports
Academic

Theses, monographs, and papers

Gathers the mentions of a concept or author so you can unify terminology, definitions, and criteria across the whole work. Creates topic summaries to speed up reading.

thesismonographspaperstheoretical frameworkfinal projects
Management and consulting

Management and consulting reports

Gathers every diagnosis, recommendation, and data point on a single key issue so the report reaches conclusions supported by the evidence you presented earlier.

management reportsconsultingdiagnosticsstrategic plansfield studies
Public sector programs

Public programs and government plans

Check your program document against the targets of a standard and see, target by target, what it addresses and what it doesn't. With the official indicator next to each one.

municipal programsgovernment plansSDGsmonitoring and evaluationindicators
Publishing

Manuscripts for publication

Follows a character, an idea, or a motif through the whole manuscript to check continuity, repetition, and tone chapter by chapter.

novelsessaysmanualsnonfiction booksanthologies
Your documents are safe

Your documents aren't stored on our servers

Saved to your cloud

Connect your Google Drive or Microsoft 365 and your changes are saved there, in your account.

Processed in your browser

Reading, editing, and saving happen on your computer and in your cloud. For AI features we use Gemini: what is queried isn't stored on our servers.

Fully traceable

You download a new document, with your original intact. The change history, for going back, is a Premium feature.

You→HILO→Your Drive / 365
Your documents aren't stored on our servers.

Plans

Start free. When you want more, subscribe or buy hilos on their own.

Free
$0
When you create your account you get 100 welcome hilos, once. A hilo is the unit HILO uses to measure AI usage: each AI action spends a few. Everything that doesn't need AI is unlimited and never expires.
  • Keyword search, coding, and annotating, with no limit
  • Unlimited downloads of the edited document
  • Error diagnostics and tools for datasets
  • Topic and code summaries
  • Kappa calculator
  • AI features (concept maps, assisted coding, checklist, logic model, variable operationalization), with your hilos
Premium
$9/mo
Or $79 a year ($6.58/mo). Cancel any time.
  • 325 hilos per week for AI features (renewed every Monday)
  • Change tracking (redline)
  • Change history and traceability

Payment is processed by Paddle. HILO doesn't see or store your card details.

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Buy a pack of hilos, without subscribing, to keep using AI features.

$2.50/ 100 hilos
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Frequently asked questions

Word documents (.docx) and PDF. PDFs are read, searched, and coded; the download with your changes is always .docx.

A hilo is the unit HILO uses to measure AI usage. Consumption depends on the length of the document and on the task; the app shows your updated balance after each use. Downloading a topic's summary doesn't spend hilos. Plan hilos renew every Monday and don't accumulate; the ones you buy don't expire and are used once the week's run out.

You keep working. Searching by keyword, coding, annotating, and downloading the document don't need AI and don't spend hilos. Only the AI features pause, until next Monday or until you buy a pack of hilos.

Yes. The document is read in your browser and saved to your own Drive or Microsoft 365. We don't store your texts on our servers. For AI features we use Gemini on its paid tier, where content isn't used to train models.