Starkive · DePalo Consulting
Two products. One name. Which is yours?
Starkive is a name over two products, sold separately. Pick the one that is yours — the other is a different product for a different person.
Manifest is a hardware asset register.
Studio is a PDF and archiving utility.
Manifest
hardware asset register
For the person accountable for other people's machines.
Know what you own.
Every device, contract, lease, licence and warranty from the day you buy it to the day it is disposed of, with the evidence an auditor asks for already assembled, because the work assembled it.
Will not edit your PDFs, hold your passwords, or seal a single file.
Studio
PDF and archiving utility
For anyone who would rather their files stayed theirs.
Keep what is yours.
Four tools in one app: seal a file so only the right person opens it, work on a PDF without uploading it, black out text so it is truly gone, keep passwords somewhere better than a note, generate your 2FA codes, and split a secret into shares no one holds alone.
Will not inventory hardware, track a fleet, or produce audit evidence.
Neither is a tier, a module or a version of the other. There is no bundle, no upgrade path between them, and nothing you buy in one appears in the other.
What they do have in common.
Different customers, different machines, no shared workflow. What is shared is the reason both exist, and it is the only thing that makes one name over two products honest.
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The work happens where your data already is
Manifest keeps the register on your Mac and your iPhone, and asks Apple's on-device models the questions. Studio seals, opens, edits and reads files on the machine in front of you. Neither product has an upload step you have to opt out of.
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No account, unless the feature genuinely needs one
Studio needs none at all for personal use. Manifest needs one only if you choose the cloud workspace, and choosing the local one means we never receive your inventory. There is no telemetry or analytics. The only thing that can reach us is a support message you choose to send, which carries the app version and your OS, and can carry your organisation's name and account email unless you switch those off.
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The limits are printed in the same size as the features
Manifest does not discover software on your machines. Studio's password ZIP uses a weak legacy scheme, and we say which of our own options it is. Both pages state what the product will not do next to what it will, because finding out afterwards is how people stop believing the rest.
The detail is on each product’s own pages: Manifest’s security page and privacy policy spell out which fields we can read and which we cannot.
The company
DePalo Consulting LLC
A working IT asset management practice, which is where Manifest came from: it is the job the company already does, productised. Starkive is the product line, not a product. On a site whose whole proposition is trust, who is selling it should be the easiest fact on the page to check.
DePalo Consulting also runs asset-management programs directly, with Manifest included, for teams that would rather hand the whole thing over. Ask about a managed program.