What if your experiment just worked?
The agent programs the run.
Pumps move. Biology begins.
Down the channel, into the living layer —
cells adhered on a bed of electrodes.
The network comes alive.
Thousands of electrodes, listening.
Biology becomes data.
A constellation of understanding —
the cell’s biology, organized.
Open Culture takes care of the experiment.
You take care of the discovery.
One desktop platform, from consumables to cloud.
The loop you just watched is the whole product. Open Culture removes the most fatiguing overhead of bench science and hands back the part that matters.
Load the cartridge
Cells, media, and reagents go into a sealed microfluidic cartridge. No hood, no hands, no 2 a.m. media changes.
Habitat runs it
A desktop machine cultures, perfuses, images, and records — end to end, for weeks — with full provenance on every step.
It becomes data
Every experiment resolves into organized, AI-ready datasets and an agentic workspace that helps you ask the next question.
Tissue biology has been artisanal. It doesn’t have to be.
- Manual culture: labor-intensive and easy to break
- Irreproducible between hands, benches, and weeks
- Data-poor — most of what happened is never recorded
- Automated, around the clock, with a defined protocol
- Reproducible — the same run, every run, fully logged
- Data-rich — every step captured, organized, queryable
A whole tissue-culture lab, distilled to one machine.
Habitat is a capital instrument that replaces the incubator, the hood, the pumps, the microscope, and the recording rig — and the labor that ties them together.
- Footprint
- Desktop — fits in a standard lab, no facility build-out
- Runs
- Seed → perfuse → image → record, autonomously, for weeks
- Sensing
- HD-MEA electrophysiology + on-board imaging
- Output
- Organized, AI-ready datasets with full provenance
Stylized representation — product renders forthcoming.
Not a new AI company. A seven-year, peer-reviewed record
Open Culture is built on foundational research published across Nature and Nature Neuroscience. The platform is the product of the science — not a wrapper around it.
RTSort
Real-time spike sorting
We invented real-time spike sorting — resolving individual neurons from dense electrode arrays as the signal arrives, not days later.
SpikeLab
Agents that read neural data
The first system to teach agents to analyze neural recordings — turning raw electrophysiology into interpretable, queryable results.
Closed loop
Feedback that calms the network
Feedback-driven experimentation that suppresses seizure-like activity in treatment-resistant contexts — the lab reacting to biology in real time.
Explore the full publication history.
Science & publicationsAffiliations and deployments. Cleared logo lockups to replace wordmarks before launch.
Talk to your lab. Watch it answer.
Ask a question in plain language. The agent designs the run, drives Habitat, and returns an interpreted result with full provenance — the same loop you scrolled through, hands-on.
Built by people who lived the bench.
A team from neuroscience, hardware, and AI — backed by a scientific advisory board with deep roots in electrophysiology and stem-cell biology.
Founder & CEO
Neuroscience · platform
Founder & CTO
Hardware · automation
Head of Science
Electrophysiology
Head of Software
Agentic systems
Names, headshots, and bios to be added.
Category-defining work happens together.
Research deployments
Habitat runs in academic and institutional labs studying neural development, disease models, and drug response.
Compute & ecosystem
Member of NVIDIA Inception, with infrastructure partners supporting AI-scale datasets from living tissue.
Public science
Work supported by and aligned with NSF, NIH, and HHMI-funded research programs.
Partner identities and details shown here are for layout — confirm what is cleared for public use before launch.
Want this in your lab?
Three ways in. The pilot is the fastest path to running living tissue on autopilot.
Become a pilot site
Apply to the early-access program and help shape where Habitat goes next.
Apply to the pilot