Tired of being the only personin your lab who knows where anything is?
Answer 10 questions in 3 minutes to find out exactly where your lab's antibody workflow is leaking time, money, and knowledge, and what to do about it. Get a personalised report you can hand to your PI.
Free • 10 questions • 3 minutes • Instant personalised report
Why this matters
Your antibody inventory is quietly costingyour lab more than you think.
of a federally-funded PI's research-project time goes to administrative tasks instead of science. That figure has held steady across three FDP surveys (2005, 2012, 2018). AbTrove removes one chunk of that burden: the antibody inventory you shouldn't be wrestling with in spreadsheets.
Source: Federal Demonstration Partnership, 2018 Faculty Workload Survey (n = 4,449 PIs)
Why we built AbTrove
Built by working scientists, not VCs.
Dr. Helen Murray
Co-founder & Principal Investigator
Senior Research Fellow at the University of Auckland's Centre for Brain Research, where I lead the Brain Injury and Neurodegeneration group studying CTE, Alzheimer's and tau pathology. Running a small lab on tight grants, I built AbTrove because the tools we needed to track antibodies and lab knowledge either didn't exist or cost far too much — so we made the system we needed to succeed.
Brandon Wallace
Co-founder & Head of Product
Scientists didn't sign up to be inventory managers or spreadsheet wranglers — but somehow that's half the week. I've spent my career using software to do three things: make teams more efficient, help them collaborate without friction, and quietly remove the waste no one was hired to manage. AbTrove is the version of that mission I'm proudest of.
“We've spoken to dozens of PIs, postdocs, and lab managers about how their antibody inventories really work. The same three failure modes keep coming up, and that's exactly what this scorecard measures.”
What the Scorecard measures
Three things that decide whether your grantactually pays for science.
AbTrove measures and improves the three areas of antibody management that quietly drain time, money, and lab knowledge from research labs.
1. Findability
How fast anyone in the lab, including a new postdoc on day one, can locate a specific aliquot, in the right freezer, with its full history attached.
After the scorecard, you'll know exactly how much time your lab loses to “where is it?”, and the single biggest fix to make first.
2. Duplication waste
How much of your reagent budget gets re-ordered each year because no-one could see what the lab already owned, let alone whether the lab next door already had a working aliquot to share.
After the scorecard, you'll know how much of your reagent budget is being spent on antibodies you (or a neighbouring lab) already own.
3. Knowledge continuity
How much institutional memory (lot numbers, supplier notes, who used it last and how it worked) survives when a postdoc graduates or a tech moves on.
After the scorecard, you'll know which pieces of lab knowledge are about to walk out the door, and what to do before they do.
Free • 10 questions • 3 minutes • Instant personalised report
Score your lab in 3 minutes. Fix the leaks today.
The Antibody Inventory Scorecard shows you exactly where your antibody workflow is costing you time, money, and lab knowledge, and what to do about it.
Free • 10 questions • 3 minutes • Instant personalised report
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