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Experimental science
at the speed of
scientific thought.

Olto Discovery generates complete, publication-quality experimental protocols from your objective or hypothesis — with materials, controls, statistical guidance, and safety notes included.

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CRISPR-Cas9 Knockout
T-Cell Activation Assay
Drug Synergy Screen
Protocol 001 — Oncology
CRISPR-Cas9 Knockout of KRAS G12C in Pancreatic Ductal Adenocarcinoma Cells
Feasibility
91
Controls
88
Reproducibility
85
Clarity
94

Designed for every scientific discipline

OncologyImmunologyNeuroscienceGenomicsCell BiologyPharmacologyProteomicsClinical ResearchBioengineeringStructural Biology
2,400+
Protocols generated
this month across all fields
12s
Average generation time
from input to complete protocol
99.9%
Uptime SLA
on Lab and Enterprise plans
Platform

Every tool a research lab needs. In one platform.

Built from the ground up for how scientists actually work.

AI Protocol Generator

From idea to research-grade protocol in seconds.

Describe your objective in plain language. Olto returns a complete experimental design — materials, reagents, controls, statistical plan, safety notes, and troubleshooting guidance. Fully editable, versioned, and exportable. Seven refinement modes let you make it cheaper, faster, more controlled, or suitable for a university teaching lab.

12s
average generation time
Objective
85%
Hypothesis
70%
Materials
90%
Controls
65%
Safety Notes
75%
AI Scientific Assistant

A scientific mind that knows your entire lab history.

Unlike generic AI, the Olto assistant remembers your prior experiments, uploaded papers, datasets, and preferences across every conversation. Ask it to interpret results, recommend next steps, critique your controls, or generate a draft methods section — all with full context from your research history.

lab memory retained
What statistical test for my 3-group comparison?
Based on your prior ANOVA experiments and n=8 per group, I recommend one-way ANOVA with Tukey post-hoc correction…
Manual Protocol Designer

Build complex workflows your way.

Seven step types including Decision Gates, Parallel Blocks, Safety Checks, and Measurements. Per-step duration, temperature, equipment, expected outputs, and branching logic. Test run mode for live protocol execution. AI simulation analyzes risk flags, estimates cost and duration, and provides step-level optimization suggestions.

7
step types with branching logic
Wash cells with PBS x3
5 min
Incubate with antibody
60 min / 4°C
Flow cytometry acquisition
Viability > 85%?
Gate
Dispose of fixative
Required
Team Science

Live collaboration without the coordination overhead.

Shared workspaces, real-time protocol commenting, approval workflows, and unified AI memory across your entire team. Built for how research labs actually work — with proper permissions, audit trails, and the ability to have a PI review and approve a protocol before it goes to the bench.

15
seats on the Lab plan
DK
ML
SR
JC
+3
Protocol approved by PI
New comment on Controls section
Experiment log updated by ML
Research Stories

How researchers use Olto Discovery.

From academia to biotech, researchers across every discipline are using Olto to move faster without cutting corners.

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Dr. Sarah Chen, PhD
Principal Investigator, Therapeutic Oncology
Dana-Farber Cancer Institute
Oncology
We were spending two to three weeks designing each new experimental arm for our KRAS inhibitor screen. Olto compressed that to an afternoon. The statistical planning alone — power calculations, the multiple comparison corrections — used to require a dedicated biostatistics consultation. Now it's built into every protocol we generate.
Reduced protocol design time from 3 weeks to 4 hours. Ran 6 additional experimental arms in Q1.
MW
Dr. Marcus Webb, MD/PhD
Postdoctoral Fellow, Bhatt Lab
Stanford School of Medicine
Immunology
As a postdoc, I was constantly worried about missing controls or designing experiments that wouldn't hold up in peer review. Olto catches things I'd miss at midnight — isotype controls, housekeeping genes, the right normalization strategy. My PI noticed the protocols looked more rigorous before I even told him I was using it.
First-author manuscript accepted to Nature Immunology. Controls section praised by reviewers.
AP
Dr. Aisha Patel, PhD
Senior Research Scientist, Neuroscience
Genentech Research
Neuroscience
We run a tight lab with high throughput. I needed something that could keep pace — generate 20 protocol variants in a day, track which ones we've run, and remember that we prefer confocal over widefield for this cell line. The AI assistant actually learns our preferences over time. It feels like a very well-read lab manager.
20x increase in protocol throughput. Zero SOC 2 compliance concerns with institutional IT.
JT
James Thornton, MS
Research Associate II, In Vitro Pharmacology
Pfizer Research & Development
Pharmacology
The manual protocol designer is what sold us. We have proprietary cell-based assays that no AI can know about — but I can build them step-by-step, flag the critical steps, run the simulation, and have a QC-reviewed protocol document ready for our regulatory team. It replaced a LIMS workflow we were paying six figures for.
Replaced legacy LIMS protocol module. Estimated $120K annual savings.
Security & Compliance

Research data security is not optional.

Doctors and researchers handle sensitive IP and patient-adjacent data. Olto is built with institutional security requirements as a baseline, not an afterthought.

End-to-end encryption
AES-256 at rest, TLS 1.3 in transit
Row-level data isolation
Every row secured by Supabase RLS policies at the database level
Full audit logging
Every action logged with IP, user, timestamp — immutable records
Role-based access control
Granular permissions across users, teams, and organizations
SOC 2 ready infrastructure
Infrastructure aligned with SOC 2 Type II controls
HIPAA-ready options
Available on Enterprise with Business Associate Agreement
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Encrypted Storage
AES-256
📋
Audit Logs
Immutable trail
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RLS Policies
Row-level
👥
RBAC
Granular roles
🏛️
SOC 2 Ready
Type II aligned
🏥
HIPAA Ready
Enterprise + BAA
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