Built by scientists, for scientists

Spend more time on what matters: your science.

Bench brings your experiments, notebooks, results, inventory, and team together in one connected workspace. Spend less time managing research, keep your insights within reach, and focus on moving your science forward.

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Less time managing. More time discovering.

Your time is better spent asking questions, running experiments, and making discoveries. Yet too many labs still lose hours to hand-tracked inventory, loose notes, and agendas that cannot keep pace with the science.

  • Inventory tracked by hand

    Freezer maps and reagent lots live in spreadsheets and on paper, so locating a sample or checking a lot means asking around.

  • Notes without a home

    Loose notes and scattered lab notebooks hold the record of the work, yet no one can search them or connect them to results.

  • Calendars that fall behind

    Agendas and deadlines sit in separate places and cannot keep pace with the science, so the dates that matter slip through.

Introducing Bench. A workspace built around the way academic labs actually work. Bench simplifies the everyday work of research and brings everything your lab needs into one place.

Your research. Your team. One workspace.

From notebooks and inventory to communication and lab calendars, Bench brings the moving parts of research together so your team can stay organized, aligned, and focused.

  • Experiments Start from a protocol and the rest follows.

    • A task for every step, scheduled for the right day
    • A notebook entry for each day of the experiment
    • Reagents linked from the start

  • Notebook A complete, dated record of the work.

    • Routine records such as samples and reagent lots are added for you
    • Every revision of an entry is retained
    • Searchable across the whole lab

  • Results Stay connected to the progress, not buried in the updates.

    • Status and progress for every experiment on one screen, without extra status meetings
    • Weekly progress reports compiled from recorded activity, with PI oversight across the lab
    • Trace any result to its samples and reagent lots

  • Inventory Samples, freezers and reagents under control.

    • A visual map of every freezer box
    • Search by sample ID, lot number or name
    • Alerts before a lot expires or runs low

  • Communication and calendar Coordination alongside the work.

    • Channels and direct messages on Bench
    • A shared lab calendar for meetings and events
    • Add scholarship and conference registration deadlines to your lab calendar so students never miss one

Every experiment is part of a bigger picture.

Research builds on what came before. Bench keeps your experiments, protocols, results, and observations connected, so it is easier to revisit findings and build on them. Search a sample ID or lot number and see where it is, what it came from, and which experiments used it.

Your research matters. Protecting it matters just as much.

Your lab’s work represents years of effort, unpublished findings, and valuable intellectual property. Bench is designed with security at its foundation, helping keep your research accessible to the right people and protected from unauthorized access.

  • Permissions enforced in the database

    Roles are rules inside the database itself, not options hidden in a menu. A researcher cannot reach what they should not, even by going around the screen.

  • Your experiments stay yours

    Researchers see the experiments they are part of. PIs and lab managers see across the lab, and the same rules apply to everyone.

  • Nothing disappears without a trace

    Notebook entries keep every earlier version, deleted samples stay on record, and every change is logged with who made it and when.

  • Files stay private

    Uploads live in private storage and open only through short-lived links, after Bench has checked that you are allowed to see them.

Bench keeps your data in standard PostgreSQL, so it stays portable.

Made for scientists, by scientists.

Research does not always follow a straight line. Bench is built around the way academic labs actually work, so it is easier to document experiments, connect ideas, collaborate, and keep moving forward.

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