Built in the lab, for the lab.
LabOps Lite was born from the daily reality of research that ran on scattered spreadsheets, group chats, and memory — and the conviction that it shouldn’t have to.
Every lab loses time the same way: information scattered across spreadsheets, group chats, and people’s memories. A reagent runs out mid-experiment. A protocol lives in twelve slightly different versions. The new student asks where the samples are, and the answer walks out the door when someone graduates.
LabOps Lite replaces that with one shared system. When a grad student logs a protocol run, the reagents come straight out of inventory, exactly what was used is recorded, and the run lands on the calendar — no one has to remember to update three places. The PI sees the whole lab at a glance instead of chasing status updates.
And because data is shared at the lab level rather than funneled through one person, the lab never stalls waiting on a single inbox. Less administrative friction, fewer dropped balls, and hours back every week for the work that actually matters.
I built LabOps Lite because I kept seeing the same thing: serious research slowed down by tools that don’t talk to each other — a spreadsheet for inventory, a chat app for updates, a protocol saved in a dozen versions, and a reagent that runs out with no warning.
I’m studying bioinformatics and applied mathematics at UC Santa Cruz, and I’ve spent my time working with the kind of data and workflows research labs actually run on. The problem was never a lack of effort — it’s that the tools were never built to work together. So I set out to build the one I wished every lab had: a single, honest, connected place to work.
LabOps Lite isn’t a concept or a waitlist. It’s a complete, working platform — an electronic lab notebook, sample and inventory tracking, versioned protocols, ordering, scheduling, and team coordination, all connected — that a lab can start using today.
My goal is simple: the labs doing important work shouldn’t need an enterprise budget to stay organized. Good software should be one less thing standing between researchers and their science — which is why LabOps Lite is priced so a real academic lab can actually afford it.
What changes when your lab runs on LabOps
The everyday friction, replaced.
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