Less stress, more movement

Run your whole lab without it costing more than the research.

Momentum is decentralised lab management for academic and biotech labs. Set up a lab, a group or a project, share stock and protocols with the labs around you, and keep safety records where people can find them.

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Free to use
No marketing emails
AI only when you connect it
Works on your phone

What Momentum does for you

See the whole lab without chasing anyone for an update.

Projects with budgetsBreak aims into work packages, set a planned budget on each, and track spend against your funding.
Know what depends on whatThe dependency map shows which work stops if a reagent runs out or an instrument goes down.
Membership on your termsInvite people, approve requests to join, and run several labs or groups from one account.
Safety you can findRisk assessments, a chemical register with SDS, waste logs and checklists for the whole lab.

Every lab runs itself. Momentum connects them.

No central office decides how your lab works. Each lab sets itself up, and labs share as much or as little as they choose.

1
Start or join a lab
Anyone can create a lab. People join by invitation or by asking, and you can belong to several labs and research groups at once.
2
Organise around the work
Projects and research groups hold the tasks, bookings, messages and budgets for a piece of work, together with the people doing it.
3
Share with the labs around you
Share stock with other labs and answer reagent requests. List spare low-risk supplies on the Research Exchange for credits, not money, or offer instrument time and training.

Research operations workspace

Projects, daily work, and equipment booking stay connected.

Move from project priorities to today's bench work and instrument time. Try it: change a task's status or book a free slot.

Split task view

Project tasks and daily tasks

2 pending2 in progress1 complete1 problems

Project tasks

Aims, shared ownership and follow-up.

Validate CRISPR guide QC

Pending

Project task in the CRISPR screen work package.

MayaDue today

Reorder DPBS

In Progress

Raised by a low-stock alert on the cell culture shelf.

SamDue tomorrow

Review image quantification

Problems

Blocked until the confocal booking is completed.

PriyaNeeds booking

Daily tasks

Today's bench plan with project context attached.

Prepare 6-well plates

In Progress

Bench task for the GFP transfection run.

Maya09:30

Calibrate pipettes

Pending

Daily bench task before the afternoon runs.

Alex11:00

Upload microscopy run

Complete

Completed daily task linked back to the project record.

PriyaDone

Protocols another lab can actually repeat.

Link each reagent to your stock and see what is missing before you start. When another lab forks the protocol, the product codes go with it and find that lab's own stock.

Share where it helps
Keep a protocol private, share it with your lab or a group, or publish it for everyone.
Tested on this revision
Scientists record whether an exact revision worked as written, optionally from a recorded bench run.
Reagents you can reorder
Each reagent can carry its supplier and catalog number, and forks keep them, so another lab can buy the same thing.

Sample protocol, revision 3

GFP transfection in HEK293 cells

4 successful tests on this revision, 1 from a recorded bench run2 of 4 reagents ready in your lab

DMEM, high glucoseIn stock
KS-41965 Kestrel Scientific - 50 mL
3 x 500 mL, Fridge B, shelf 2
Reduced-serum mediumLow
BL-31985 BenchLine - 10 mL
2 mL left, 10 mL needed
Lipid transfection reagentMissing
NG-L3000 Northgate Bio - 30 uL
Not in your stock
GFP reporter plasmidIn stock
pGFP-N1 Lab stock - 2 ug
Freezer -20 C, box 4

Switch to the fork: the same catalog numbers find Okafor Lab’s own stock, so they can see what they are missing before they start.

Records and safety, kept where people can find them.

The paperwork that keeps a lab open lives next to the work it covers, not in a shared drive nobody can search.

Risk assessments

COSHH-style risk assessments for the work your lab does, in the lab’s safety tab.

Chemical register and SDS

Upload or link a safety data sheet for each product, and see when one has expired.

Waste, fire and checklists

Waste records, fire safety and lab checklists next to the risk assessments.

Lab notes

Notes with images and files, private or shared with your lab. The full lab notebook is in Momentum Desktop.

Samples and biobank

A sample registry and biobank in the same workspace as your stock and equipment.

Your data, your call

Export your data or delete your account from your profile whenever you choose.

Averi, the lab assistant

AI only where you want it.

Averi stays off until you or your lab connect an AI account, and you choose which parts of your workspace it can read.

What Averi helps with today

Plan your day from tasks, bookings and deadlines
Check stock, draft orders and find where things are kept
Book instruments and check maintenance
Draft protocols and check whether one is ready to run
Help with risk assessments and safety data sheets
Dilutions, master mixes, plate layouts and cell counts

Bring your own AI

Add your own key, or use one your lab shares so students do not need their own. Lab admins choose which providers the lab may use. You pay your provider directly. Momentum never bills you for AI.

Anthropic
OpenAI
Google Gemini
Your own GPU, through a secure gateway

Block any section of your workspace from AI. Private notebooks and projects stay out unless you allow them one at a time.

Momentum Lab and Momentum Desktop.

One account across both. Use the browser for running the lab together, and the desktop app for heavy analysis on your own workstation.

Momentum Lab

In your browser, on any computer or phone

Labs, research groups and projects
Stock, orders, samples and equipment booking
Protocols, safety records and lab notes
Messaging and a shared calendar
Averi, with your own AI account

Create your lab

Momentum Desktop

On your Windows workstation, in beta

Local projects and a full lab notebook
Flow cytometry and microscopy workspaces
qPCR and gel analysis
Figure Studio for publication figures
Plugins from the Plugin Exchange

In beta testing. Not yet available to download.

Build what your lab needs, then share it

Write a plugin for Momentum Desktop with the authoring kit and publish it on the Plugin Exchange, free or for credits. Every package is checked for format and integrity and shows its publisher, licence and source link, so you can read the code before you install it. Desktop asks you to trust each package before it runs.

We grow by being useful, not by marketing.

Momentum does not grow by selling to you. We build what labs tell us they need, and we keep the promises below.

Built from your feedback

The feedback button in the app goes straight to the people building Momentum, with the page you were on. What labs ask for is what we build next.

No endless emails

We email for account security, invitations and rare critical alerts, such as a budget about to run out. No newsletters and no drip campaigns.

AI only where you want it

Off until you connect it, with your own key or your lab’s, and you can block it section by section.

Free, with voluntary donations

No subscription, no seat licences and no trial that runs out. If Momentum earns its place in your lab, you can support it with a donation. It is never required.

Momentum is research-led, with no financial backing, and built on a postdoc salary. It stays free for every lab.

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Get your team in motion.

Create a lab, invite the people you work with, and bring the rest of the lab in when they are ready.

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