The lab member that never graduates. Never misses a preprint. Never forgets a protocol.
Probe scans primary literature every night on its own clock, surfaces relevant papers before your team knows to look, and holds the complete research history of your lab — without being asked.
Not a search tool you query. An autonomous lab member that operates on a continuous cycle — monitoring, indexing, and surfacing — while your team is doing actual science.
Research knowledge has a half-life of four years.
The average graduate student tenure is four to five years. When they leave, they take with them the tacit knowledge that makes a lab function: which reagent batch worked, what the actual incubation time is for that protocol, why that cell line was abandoned in 2023, which collaborator is worth contacting.
This affects every research group that operates through human expertise rather than codified systems — which is to say, every research group.
Four systems. One persistent lab member.
Probe's four modules work together, each adding to a growing model of your lab. They can run independently, but they compound together.
Literature Surveillance
Monitors arXiv, PubMed, bioRxiv, ChemRxiv, and SSRN nightly. Maps your lab's research domains to categories and keyword clusters automatically — refining over time as your work evolves. Relevant new papers appear in your Slack channel every morning.
Institutional Memory
Indexes your lab's existing knowledge: Slack conversations, Notion pages, Drive documents, electronic lab notebook entries, and past papers. Becomes a searchable record of what your lab has tried, discovered, and decided — and stays current as new work is done.
Lab Knowledge Q&A
Ask Probe questions about your own lab's work. Not the internet — your lab. "What did we find for reaction temperature in the April batch?" "Why did we switch cell lines in September?" Probe answers from indexed knowledge of your team's work history.
Compute Infrastructure Monitoring
For computational and hybrid labs: monitors HPC job queues (Slurm), surfaces failed jobs with context, tracks usage patterns, and posts daily status to Slack. Optional — labs without HPC skip it.
Any research team where people leave and knowledge walks out with them.
What changes when your lab has a permanent team member.
"My lab re-derived the same result three times in ten years because the person who found it had graduated. Probe makes that impossible — it surfaces the first derivation when you ask the right question."
"I started at this lab six months ago. Probe told me more about what this group had tried over the past two years than my entire onboarding did. I asked why we don't use a particular assay — it found a Slack thread from 2023 with the answer."
"Before Probe, literature surveillance relied on individuals remembering to check. Now it's systematic, consistent, and surfaces cross-group opportunities we'd have missed."
How Probe differs from existing tools
Per lab. Not per seat.
One Probe covers your entire lab. At $150/month for a ten-person lab, that is less than one PI billable hour per month.
Request early access for your lab.
We're onboarding research labs now. Each setup includes a founder call — we configure Probe specifically for your lab's domain, tools, and team.
No commitment. Cancel at any time. Your data on a dedicated VM.