Bower
Bower provides a scientific knowledge platform that captures research work as it happens through voice, video, and images, automatically building a searchable, provenance-rich record. Its AI assistant, Co-scientist, offers grounded, traceable answers to researchers' questions, while Bower Glasses delivers hands-free, real-time guidance at the bench. The platform is designed for regulated environments, with hash-chained, tamper-evident records and audit-ready compliance.
- Artificial Intelligence
- AI Agents
- Data & Analytics
- Augmented & Virtual Reality
- Biotechnology
- Digital Health
- Drug Discovery & Therapeutics
- Hardware
- Healthcare Technology
- Internet of Things
- Software Only
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Problem
Research organizations lose critical knowledge when experienced scientists leave, retire, or move between sites, forcing new researchers to spend months reconstructing methods and decisions from memory. Traditional electronic lab notebooks (ELNs) only capture what researchers manually type after the fact, missing deviations, decisions, and execution context that are essential for reproducibility, tech transfer, and regulatory compliance.
Solution
Bower combines Capture, Record, and Co-scientist to document scientific work as it happens and turn it into durable organizational intelligence. Researchers use voice, video, and images to record experiments, workflows, and observations directly from the bench, with every capture automatically organized into a searchable, provenance-rich record linked to protocols, people, and instruments. The Co-scientist AI assistant connects this operational record into a conversational interface, allowing researchers to ask questions, troubleshoot issues, and receive answers grounded in their organization's actual work, with every claim cited back to its source. Bower Glasses, an XR wearable, delivers real-time, context-aware guidance in the researcher's field of view, enabling hands-free execution and live deviation flagging without interrupting workflow.
Target Audience
Primary customers are research institutions, biotech and pharma companies, and CROs conducting regulated or multi-site scientific work, including discovery, development, and GMP manufacturing environments.
Features
- Multimodal capture via voice, video, and images directly from the bench, preserving raw media permanently
- Hash-chained, tamper-evident records at capture time, designed for GMP and regulated environments
- Automatic organization of captures into a searchable, provenance-rich record connected across experiments, protocols, instruments, and people
- Co-scientist AI assistant with hybrid semantic search across organizational records and 8 open scientific databases including OpenAlex, Europe PMC, Semantic Scholar, and ORCID
- Bower Glasses XR wearable with live visual understanding of experiment execution, hands-free voice interaction, and real-time deviation flagging
- Documentation automations with provenance for protocols, SOPs, and onboarding materials
- Source-linked answers with full reasoning trails, never a black box, and no training on customer data
- Access controls that follow organizational permission structures, with data isolation per tenancy