ACADEMIC RESEARCH

Your research,
beyond your bench.

Reach instruments and expertise beyond your own bench — and come back with data and methods that reviewers can trust.

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INSTRUMENT ACCESS● 5 / 5 AVAILABLE
Confocal microscope NOT IN YOUR LAB ✓ LAB C · TORONTO
Flow cytometer NOT IN YOUR LAB ✓ LAB A · BOSTON
Mass spectrometer NOT IN YOUR LAB ✓ LAB E · CAMBRIDGE
High-content imager NOT IN YOUR LAB ✓ LAB B · BASEL
qPCR thermocycler YOURS ✓ IN YOUR LAB
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INSTRUMENT COST CALCULATOR

What does owning that instrument really cost?

Before you buy — or book months of core-facility time — see the true cost of every experiment once purchase, service and staff time are counted.

Instrument pricePurchase and installation
$250K
Years of useHow long before it’s replaced or obsolete
10 yr
Annual service contractAs a share of the purchase price
15%
Experiments per yearHow often you’d actually use it
40
Staff hours per experimentSetup, running, cleanup and documentation
6 h
Hourly cost of staff timeStudents, postdocs or technicians, fully loaded
$45
OWNING IT, EVERY YEAR
$1,833true cost of each experiment when you own the instrument
$73Kper year to own, maintain and run it
240 hof staff time at the instrument each year
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Estimates use only your inputs. Purchase cost is spread evenly over the years you expect to use the instrument. Compare the cost per experiment with a quote to run the same work on Augmentiv — with no capital outlay, no service contract and a run record for every result.

THE CHALLENGE

Great questions, limited benches.

01

Instrument gaps

The experiment you need often depends on equipment your lab doesn’t have — or can’t book in time.

02

Grant clocks

Pilot data and revision experiments rarely fit around shared core-facility schedules.

03

Reviewer scrutiny

When work is outsourced, it’s hard to show exactly how it was done.

A researcher in gloves placing a slide under a microscope, with a rack of blue sample tubes beside them
The instrument you need, without buying it.
HOW AUGMENTIV HELPS

Pay per experiment. Publish with proof.

No contracts to negotiate and no equipment to buy — just the experiment you need, run and verified.

  • 01 Pilot data for proposals Generate the preliminary results a grant needs, on your timeline.
  • 02 Revision experiments Answer reviewer requests quickly, with a record you can attach to your response.
  • 03 Replication studies Re-run published protocols at an independent lab, verified step by step.
  • 04 Core-facility overflow Keep projects moving when shared instruments are booked out.

How it works, step by step.

Protocol intake

Upload your method or describe it in plain language. We structure it into a runnable protocol, drawing on a library of 175,000 lab workflows.

Ambiguity review

Scientists on our team flag unclear steps, missing parameters and risky assumptions before anything starts.

Instant scoping

See what it takes to run: equipment, materials, timeline and cost.

See it on your protocol →
INTAKE · EXP-2214 Ready to run
qpcr_method_v2.pdfPARSED
01Thaw samples on ice4 °C
02Extract RNA24 samples
03Plate setup96-well
04Incubate at 37 °C time missingCLARIFIED · 15 MIN
EQUIPMENTThermocycler
SAMPLES24
TIMELINEScoped
QUOTEReady
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SOLUTIONS Biotech & pharma SOLUTIONS AI-driven research PLATFORM How verification works

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