three paths
Every dissertation begins somewhere — a question you cannot shake, a folder of half-written chapters, a package you have been refining for years. The framework adapts. Pick the entry point that matches where you are.
coming in D.2
Start with a question; end with a platform.
For dissertation authors beginning a new project. About a dozen questions about your central question, methods, sources, and audiences. Leave with a scaffolded knowledge base, Quarto writing environment, and — depending on whether your methods are interpretive, computational, or both — an optional R or Python computational layer.
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Bring what you have; get the structure.
For dissertation authors with existing chapters, source materials, or interview transcripts. Upload your materials; AI-assisted ingestion seeds your wiki, populates your sources page, and scaffolds Quarto chapters around what you have already written.
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Wrap a package as your methodological core.
For methodologists writing a dissertation around an existing R (or Python) package. Paste a GitHub URL, CRAN name, or PyPI name; automatic introspection of DESCRIPTION + roxygen + vignettes (R) or pyproject + docstrings (Python) drafts your wiki entries. The package stays the computational layer; the framework adds the interpretive layer that makes it legible.