The Stillwise guide
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Give Stillwise a question. Get a report with sources, then come back to new evidence, proposed updates and useful work already prepared.
Stillwise is coming soon. This guide introduces the planned workflow. The interactive fictional sample is available now; supported sources and final allowances are shown in the app before research begins.
Start with what you want to understand
Start with an ordinary question, a comparison you want to make or a report that needs a refresh. Add documents when they help explain what you already know.
- A question: “How are small teams using automation, and where does it fall short?”
- A comparison: “Compare these note-taking tools for offline use, export options and price.”
- Existing work: “Bring this industry report up to date and preserve the old version.”
- Regulation: “Follow US federal rule changes affecting this checklist.”
- Medical literature: “What do clinical studies say about sleep and memory in adults?”
Your profile can supply writing, language and notification defaults. These preferences are editable and do not silently change an existing project's assignment.
Make the question specific enough to answer. Name the options you want to compare, the features that matter and the sources you already have. The plan will show what can be researched and checked again.
Agree on the research
Start with a question, links and any useful documents. Stillwise proposes a short editable approach: the questions to answer, included subjects, source coverage and expected result. There is no required research-category questionnaire.
The agreement also shows source coverage, any recurring schedule, whether to prepare useful follow-up material and a maximum research allowance. It asks for context when it matters, such as a legal jurisdiction or a study population.
| Choice | What it means |
|---|---|
| Research once | Create a useful, dated result without active recurring coverage. |
| Research and keep current | Add the supported source checks, discovery and review schedule shown in the plan. |
| Add another subject | Review the expanded scope and allowance before adding ongoing work. |
Approving a bounded plan authorizes routine work within it. A suggested product or a one-time follow-up does not automatically become another monitored subject.
Starting creates the project and begins research in one step. The first report becomes the working baseline. If you chose to keep the project current, its schedule starts after that report is ready; you do not have to approve the baseline again. It remains generated research, with its sources and gaps available to review.
One project, a connected view
| View | What belongs here |
|---|---|
| Research | The current answer, open questions, real work progress and prepared material needing attention. |
| Prepared work | Cited briefs, checklists and questions to review, mark done, dismiss or export. |
| Updates | New evidence, affected passages, proposed revisions and your review decisions. |
| Follow-ups | Ask from existing evidence or investigate a question using fresh sources, building on the conversation. |
| Sources | Supporting evidence, dates, source versions, access status and gaps. |
| Details | The approved approach, scope, schedule, allowance and project controls. |
Your home and inbox bring together meaningful changes and prepared work across projects. A current report shows when material updates are waiting for review. The report you are reading and the latest evidence can differ while you consider a proposal.
Explore a topic or compare several options
A project can investigate a question, compare several products or organizations, or update an existing report. Name the things you want to understand and the questions you have about them. The report brings the findings together.
One development may affect several parts of a comparison. Stillwise connects the new information to the relevant findings and explains the suggested changes. A relationship inferred from the sources is labeled as an interpretation.
Comparisons need matching definitions. Check whether features mean the same thing, prices use the same billing period and figures use the same units. Missing information stays missing.
Keep the evidence inspectable
Your report links important findings to the sources behind them. Open a reference to inspect the supporting passage, when it was published and when Stillwise checked it.
A product page shows what its publisher claims. It does not automatically provide independent confirmation. Several copies of the same announcement are still one underlying source.
| Status | How to read it |
|---|---|
| Available | The source could be inspected at the observation time shown. |
| Partial | Some material was assessed, with missing or unreadable portions disclosed. |
| Inaccessible | The source could not be checked. The last permitted observation may remain available. |
| Point-in-time upload | An uploaded file is a snapshot. A new upload is required to assess its changes. |
| Outside coverage | This source or question is not supported by the project's current agreement. |
A newer figure does not make an accurately dated older figure false. An older article found today is new to your project, but does not necessarily describe a new event.
Let the question shape the evidence
Legal and medical research use the same project flow. Stillwise changes its source strategy and the context it asks for, rather than putting you into a separate product mode.
| Research | Sources and useful context |
|---|---|
| Public legal and regulatory questions | Automatic regulatory discovery covers selected United States federal publications through Federal Register records and official GovInfo PDFs. Jurisdiction, publication type, reported effective dates and corrections stay attached to the evidence. |
| Medical and scientific literature | PubMed-indexed records are discovered through Europe PMC, with abstracts and permitted open-access full text where available. Study type, publication status, identifiers and indexed corrections or retractions stay visible. |
| Other topics or jurisdictions | Bring relevant accessible sources. The plan makes supported coverage and unresolved authority explicit; access to a page does not establish complete coverage. |
A proposed rule is not a final requirement. Publication and effective dates can differ. Regulatory tracking does not establish all current law, case treatment or whether a rule applies to your circumstances.
An abstract is not a full methods review. A study's population and design limit what can be concluded; missing methods and indexed corrections stay visible. This is a bounded literature review, without a claim of exhaustive systematic review or individual diagnosis and treatment guidance.
See what changed, and why it matters
An update shows the new source information, the question or passage it affects, the suggested wording and what remains unresolved.
- Inspect the source and compare its dates and definitions with the earlier evidence.
- Read the affected current passage beside the proposed wording.
- Accept the revision, edit it, reject it with a reason, defer it or request more evidence.
Accepting a revision creates a report version. Rejecting a proposal does not make the new source false, and deferring does not resolve a coverage gap. Your own notes and judgments remain distinct from sourced findings.
Proposals identify their base report version. If that report has changed, an older proposal must be revalidated before it can replace text.
Find useful work already prepared
When preparation is enabled in your plan, research and background reviews can produce cited decision briefs, checklists or question sets. These contain the actual material to read and use, including the evidence and the reason it was prepared.
For example, a changed vendor price can prompt a comparison brief and questions about unconfirmed switching costs. A regulatory publication can prompt checklist items for applicability review. A new study can prompt questions about how its population differs from the earlier evidence.
Open prepared material from the project or workspace inbox. Mark it done, dismiss it, or export a dated copy with its citations. Marking something done does not verify its conclusions or accept a report revision. Stillwise prepares the work inside your workspace; it does not send messages, submit filings or take outside actions.
Keep the earlier understanding
Report history preserves what the work said, when it said it and the evidence behind that version. An accepted update should not silently rewrite the past.
An export is a dated snapshot, with citations and relevant limitations. It does not continue updating after download. A live report view and a frozen export must be labeled differently.
Make the schedule visible
Maintained projects run while the browser is closed: they check known sources, discover new material on the agreed schedule, and assess what affects the current report. Research can make a small number of focused follow-ups when gaps or conflicting evidence warrant them, within the quoted allowance.
Read the last successful check and next planned check separately. A source failure, missed run or exhausted analysis allowance must remain visible. “No material changes found” applies only to the coverage actually checked.
Use pause controls when the project no longer needs recurring work. Pausing preserves the research. Resuming requires accounting for the gap, rather than treating the unmonitored period as covered.
The inbox keeps meaningful updates and prepared material together. Opt into the weekly email digest in your preferences to receive links back to the work. It can summarize more frequent checks, follows your timezone and quiet hours, and never accepts a revision.
Know the allowance before work starts
Projects, subjects, watched sources and research credits measure different things. A comparison of several products uses capacity for each product, even though the work sits in one project.
Initial research, discovery, focused follow-ups and substantive change assessment can use credits. Reading an existing report, ordinary export and internal delivery retries do not consume research allowance.
Work should show a stable maximum before execution, stop at the approved limit and disclose partial results. There are no automatic overages by default. Protect the allowance needed for maintained projects before commissioning additional exploration.
Control what you bring and share
Research can reveal strategy, client relationships and personal interests. Projects are private by default. External research may send a minimized question or source excerpts to configured providers; only include material you are authorized to process.
Sharing a report should not expose every source upload, conversation and note. Review the exact content before using any sharing control. Revocation stops future access through Stillwise but cannot retrieve downloaded copies.
Uploaded material can inform a report but is not copied into external search queries. Fresh investigation uses the approved public questions and source scope. Your conversation helps interpret a follow-up during synthesis without becoming a web search transcript.
Source access and research limits remain explicit for every topic. Stillwise does not certify legal compliance or make medical, financial or other consequential decisions on your behalf.
Read the privacy notice and terms for details and the current release status.