You have an experiment to run. But first, you need access to the right software. Then you need to figure out how to use it to design the experiment. Then the results have to get from the instrument, to the notebook, to a spreadsheet, to statistical software, and eventually into a report. And somewhere between all of that, the real science gets pushed aside.
The friction is everywhere.
When the software is somewhere else.
The computer is occupied. The license is unavailable. The software is installed on the lab machine, not the machine you are using. Or you are on a train, or bus, or a plane traveling home or attending a symposium. So everything has to wait — and when you finally reach the shared workstation, designing the next experiment becomes guesswork: change one thing, run it again, see what happens.
60.7% of researchers in our validation survey reported relying on trial-and-error, OFAT, or other unstructured approaches, and 64.3% lack institutional design software licenses.
When the same data gets written twice.
A result appears on an instrument. It goes into a notebook. Later, it gets typed into a spreadsheet. Then it gets copied again for analysis or reporting. Every handoff is another opportunity to lose context, introduce an error, or simply forget something.
57.1% of researchers reported deferring electronic logging at the bench, and 60.7% reported regular transcription errors between laboratory records and spreadsheets.
When understanding the result takes longer than generating it.
The run is finished. The plots are there. The statistical output is there. Now you have to work out what it is actually telling you. And often, that means finding someone who knows the software, finding the right workstation, or spending another evening teaching yourself what the output means.
92.9% of researchers reported losing time to data analysis and experimental workflow friction. For 35.7%, those delays lasted three months or more.
When the bench is on the other side of the facility.
Stripping off your gloves to walk across the building and check a computer. Adjusting a run from a desktop instead of at the bench. The work scattered across instruments, paper notebooks, spreadsheets, and presentation slides.
Research workflows lose momentum across 5+ disconnected tools.
And none of this is the experiment.
It is everything around the experiment.
The waiting. The copying. Switching tools.
The learning curve. The uncertainty about what to run next.
The paperwork that accumulates while you are trying to do the actual research.
We know because we have lived it too. We are researchers. We have spent years designing experiments, running them, analysing the results, documenting the work, and dealing with the same fragmented workflows.
And we kept asking the same question:
What if experimental research could simply move with you?
What if you did not have to stop your work because the right computer was already in your pocket?
What if the experiment, the data, the analysis, and the context were already there when you needed them?
What if you could work at the bench, review results between tasks, continue on the way home, and pick up exactly where you left off?
What if the tedious parts did not require doing the same work twice?
What if statistics could be explained without turning every researcher into a statistician?
Meet STATULA.
An AI-guided lab companion and decision intelligence platform that helps researchers plan, log, understand, and report experiments at the bench, with data that stays on your device. STATULA digitalizes and restructures traditional experimentation and Design of Experiments workflows around a validated scientific framework.
A research workspace built around the way experimental work actually happens.
On your phone. On your tablet. On your computer.
Offline when you need it.
Across platforms.
With your experiment, data, notes, analysis, and reporting connected instead of scattered across separate tools.
And when the statistics get difficult, intelligent assistance can help explain what you are seeing without taking the scientific decision away from you.
One experiment. One connected workflow.
Plan the work. Run the experiment. Capture what happens when it happens. Understand the results. Turn the finished work into something you can share. Without having to rebuild the same experiment across five different places.
Researchers need to spend more time moving forward. And...
Less time waiting for software. Less time copying data.
Less time figuring out where everything went.
More time asking the next scientific question towards the next breakthrough.
And this is what STATULA brings.
Experimental research, without all the friction around it.
Light for flow. Dark for focus.
Research happens under bright benchtop lights, in shared instrument rooms, and in darkened analytical bays. STATULA adapts its appearance to your working rhythm.
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