A founder, a cat, and a frustration with SAS.

KoliStat builds modern tooling for clinical and tabular data work. It exists because nobody else is shipping what a working statistical programmer actually needs.

Why KoliStat

The name is for Koli, a big, smart, endlessly curious black cat who lives with the founder’s parents.

The founder

Massimo Meneghello is a Senior Statistical Programmer at a CRO — the day job is exactly the kind of decades-old SAS, run next to newer tools that don’t talk to it, that KoliStat is built to handle.

KoliStat started from a simple observation: the pharma world is structurally stuck on SAS, but the SAS user experience and licensing model have not aged very well. The interesting question is not how to replace SAS, but rather how to give the people who still need to write and audit SAS code a modern, browser-native, fast environment to do it in.

Find Massimo on LinkedIn and GitHub.

The mission

Build tools that are byte-parity-correct where regulators care, fast where analysts feel it, and cheap to try for anyone who wants to evaluate them. Three principles that drive every product decision:

• Correctness over convenience. If a proc produces a different number than SAS, that is a bug, not a tradeoff.
• The browser is the runtime. WebAssembly + DuckDB make installation a relic. Editor, SAS engine, and statistical extension all fit in a tab.
• Founder-led, not faceless. The buying experience and the support experience both go through the same person who writes the code.

What is the portfolio

Three products, one shared analytical core:

• the-stats-duck — the open-source DuckDB extension that supplies the statistics.
• Bedevere — the tabular data visualizer and SQL editor.
• KoliLang — the browser-native SAS engine, live at editor.kolistat.com.

Get in touch

Direct enquiries to contact@kolistat.com, or find us on LinkedIn. Security reports go to security@kolistat.com.