Bower Co-scientist
Scale expertise across and beyond the lab
Stop reconstructing what your team already knows. Bower connects every researcher to your organization's accumulated knowledge, directly in their workflow.
Grounded in your experiments · your data never trains shared models
The knowledge problem
Important answers are locked in the heads of your best people
When researchers leave, retire, or move between sites, critical knowledge goes with them. What took years to learn gets reconstructed from scratch by the next person. Co-scientist makes that knowledge searchable, queryable, and available to everyone in your organization from day one.
The result
- No more reconstructing what your team already knows
- No knowledge lost when people move on
- No answers living in one person's inbox
- Every researcher working from the same source of truth
An institutional memory layer for your science
Natural-language access to scientific knowledge
Search across experiments, workflows, protocols, methods, connected systems, and scientific documentation just by asking.
Grounded in your work
Every answer links back to the underlying experiments, workflows, people, and decisions. Full traceability and scientific context, never a black box.
Shared intelligence across teams and sites
Operational knowledge becomes accessible across researchers, labs, manufacturing sites, CROs, and external partners. One source of truth.
Private, secure, and yours
Structuring happens inside your tenant under your access controls. Your organization owns its data, and it is never used to train shared models.
Real time intelligence at the bench
Bower's AI assistant, 'Bird', follows the run in real time, flags deviations as they happen, and answers questions about exactly what's in front of you.
- Works hands-free through a phone camera or an XR wearable
- Live visual understanding of experiment execution
- Conversational querying with traceable answers
- Real-time operational guidance and deviation flagging
- Documentation automations with provenance: protocols, SOPs, onboarding
- Connects to your ORCID profile and open scientific databases
How it works
Ask a question. Get a grounded answer
Co-scientist connects to the operational record Bower already builds, retrieves the relevant work, and answers with full traceability back to the source.
Ask in plain language
Pose a question via text or voice, the same way you'd ask a colleague about a method, a result, a deviation, or a decision.
Retrieve from your record
Co-scientist searches the connected graph of experiments, protocols, instruments, and people across your organization.
Answer, with sources
You get a clear answer grounded in real work, every claim cited back to the experiment, protocol, or person it came from.
No hallucinated guesses. Answers are grounded in the operational history of your own organization.
Trust & security
Why scientists trust Bower Co-scientist
Source-linked, always
Every claim cites the experiment, protocol or person behind it, with a full reasoning trail back to the record. Never a black box.
Your data, your tenancy
Structuring happens inside your own environment, under your own access controls. Nothing is ever used to train a shared model.
Built for the bench and the desk
Ask by voice or text using a phone, desktop or Bower smart glasses. Access always reflects the same permissions already set across your teams and sites.
Built for regulated science
Designed for environments where every decision needs an audit trail, from early discovery through GMP manufacturing.
Visit Bower's Trust Centre to learn more how we handle security.
Bower Co-scientist vs AI assistants & knowledge tools
Generic AI doesn't know your lab. Wikis and knowledge bases store what someone remembered to write down. Co-scientist is grounded in the work itself.
| Capability | Bower Co-scientist | Generic AI | Knowledge Bases / Wikis |
|---|---|---|---|
| Grounded in your team's experiments and decisions | Yes | Partial | Partial |
| Live visual understanding of experiment execution | Yes | No | No |
| Conversational querying with traceable answers | Yes | Yes | Limited |
| Real-time operational guidance and deviation flagging | Yes | No | No |
| Documentation automations with provenance (protocols, SOP, onboarding) | Yes | No | No |
| Connects to your ORCID profile & open scientific databases | Yes | No | No |
Questions, answered
From your organization's own operational record: the experiments, protocols, instruments, decisions, and people already captured in Bower. It also searches across 8 open scientific databases including OpenAlex, Europe PMC, Semantic Scholar, and ORCID, plus any tools your team connects, from Google Drive to Slack to OneDrive. Every answer is cited to its source, so you can verify the reasoning behind any output, not just the conclusion. This is how a scientific knowledge base should work: grounded in your real work, not generic training data. See all connected sources →
General AI tools have no knowledge of your lab. Co-scientist is a purpose-built AI lab assistant grounded in your organization's actual research: the protocols your team ran, the deviations that were logged, the decisions that were made. It won't invent a method you never ran or a result you never saw. Every answer shows its sources, so outputs are auditable, not just plausible. The difference is most visible when you're defending a claim, investigating an anomaly, or preparing for a tech transfer. How Co-scientist grounds its answers · Hybrid semantic search · Workspace instructions
Access follows your organization's permission structure. Notes, protocols, and collections can be restricted to the whole workspace, specific teams, or individual contributors. Each researcher connects their own tools via their own credentials, so nothing from a colleague's accounts is ever visible to you. Nothing enters the shared knowledge base until it's explicitly saved there. For organizations running multi-site research or CRO partnerships, this means knowledge can be shared exactly as far as you choose, and no further. Permissions overview →
No. Your organization owns its data and it is never used to train shared models. All AI processing happens within your tenant, under your access controls. For workspaces handling protected health information, HIPAA compliance mode is available with additional PHI controls enforced server-side. This matters for any life sciences organization with IP to protect or regulatory obligations to meet. Trust Centre · Data privacy · HIPAA compliance
Yes. Co-scientist connects to 14 tools via one-click OAuth, including Google Drive, OneDrive, Dropbox, Box, Notion, Slack, Microsoft Teams, and GitHub. Search runs across connected tools without copying anything into your knowledge base unless you choose to save it. Connections are per-user, meaning access respects whatever permissions already exist in each tool. You control which sources are active in any given conversation, keeping answers focused. Set up connectors · Connect Claude, ChatGPT, or Cursor · R and Python in Bower