It works with the folder your instrument already writes to.
No driver to install, no vendor licence to buy, nothing added to the instrument PC. Whatever your instrument exports — its own file, a CSV, a photograph of the panel — lands attached to the run that produced it.
- Instruments listed
- 60, across six kinds of work
- Read inside
- 52 of them — 9 open formats
- To install
- Nothing. It watches a folder
How it works
Point at a folder
The one the instrument software already saves into. A local folder, a share, or a stick you carry back to your desk.
Files land on the run
Anything new in that folder is attached to the run it belongs to, kept exactly as written, and versioned from then on.
The claim stays attached
When you state a result, the file underneath it comes with it — three years later, to a reviewer, to whoever takes over.
The folder watcher is included on the free plan. Most lab software puts instrument data behind an upgrade or an integration project, which is how a lab ends up with software it can't actually feed.
Find your instrument
Common instruments in academic labs, what each one writes, and how it lands. If yours isn't here it almost certainly still works — the list is a starting point, not a limit.
PCR, qPCR and nucleic acid14
Plate readers and spectroscopy12
Chromatography and mass spectrometry9
Imaging and microscopy9
Cell analysis and flow cytometry6
The rest of the bench10
Nothing matching that. It very likely still works — tell us what you run and we’ll confirm.
Send us your instrument list and we'll tell you exactly how each one lands — and what, if anything, needs doing first. It also tells us what to build next.
It doesn't need to be online.
Plenty of instruments run on a machine that hasn't been updated in a decade and isn't allowed on the network — and since Windows 10 went out of support, university IT has been locking those machines down further, not less.
So nothing is installed on the instrument PC. Copy the folder to a stick, drop it in from your own laptop, and it lands the same way. The record doesn't care how the file got there, only that it's the file that came off the instrument.
Start with the instrument you use most.
The folder watcher is on the free plan. Point it at one folder and see what comes across.