Design Partner Program
Make your lab’s expertise work harder.
Join Bower’s Design Partner Program. Spend 4 weeks using Bower at the bench to capture research as it happens, reduce documentation overhead, and make your team’s expertise instantly accessible.
At the bench · flask A3, passage 12
08:41 → 09:30- Voice“Log this. Cells look healthy, no contamination, media color is normal.”Observation logged to flask A3, passage 12.
- Recall“What was the trypsin incubation on this line last time?”Three minutes at 37°C, from the run on 22 July.
- Image“Capture this. The monolayer is patchy along the left edge.”Image attached and flagged as a deviation.
- Record“Gloves off. Session ends.”Draft record ready: 6 observations, 2 images, 1 deviation.
The partnership
Four weeks. A real workflow. Measurable impact.
Partner with the Bower team to build a customized workflow around how your scientists work.
We’ll configure Bower around your team and processes to reduce documentation overhead, capture knowledge as research happens, and make your team’s expertise easier to access and reuse.
The goal isn’t another software trial. It’s to identify measurable ways to save your researchers time, strengthen your research record, and help your scientists spend more time on science.
What changes
What Bower can do for your lab
Over 4 weeks, we’ll work with your researchers to improve how your lab captures, accesses, and shares knowledge.
Spend less time documenting
Capture observations, decisions, images, and video as you work, without stopping to reconstruct everything afterwards.
Build a better research record
Create a richer record of experiments that preserves the context, decisions, and deviations that are often lost.
Put your team’s expertise at the bench
Give researchers access to previous work, protocols, and troubleshooting knowledge without interrupting an experiment or relying on the most experienced person in the room.
Reduce repeat work
Preserve what happened, what worked, and what didn’t so your team can learn from previous experiments instead of starting from scratch.
Get researchers up to speed faster
Turn tacit knowledge into something new and existing researchers can actually find, understand, and use.
Shape the future of scientific work
Work directly with the Bower product team and influence the workflows, features, and capabilities we build next.
Before and after
Turn your lab’s knowledge into a team advantage
Today
- Researchers reconstruct notes after experiments
- Important context lives in people’s heads
- Troubleshooting often means finding the right expert
- Documentation competes with time at the bench
- New researchers learn through informal handover
- Valuable experimental history is difficult to retrieve
With Bower
- Research is captured as it happens
- Expertise becomes accessible across the team
- Researchers can recall relevant previous work at the bench
- Documentation becomes part of the workflow
- Knowledge is easier to transfer between researchers
- Experimental context becomes searchable and reusable
The program
Four weeks. Four themes.
Before we start, we’ll understand your workflows, identify two or three areas to focus on, configure Bower around them, and agree on how we’ll measure impact.
Week 01
Capture
Identify a high-value workflow and start capturing research as it happens with Bower.
- Hands-free capture during live experiments
- Baseline how documentation happens today
Week 02
Assist
Use Bower to surface relevant knowledge, context, and previous work while researchers are working.
- Protocol recall and troubleshooting at the bench
- Bring in a colleague without leaving the work
Week 03
Structure
Turn captured research into structured, searchable knowledge that can be reused by the wider team.
- Captured work organized into a connected record
- Fits alongside the tools your team already runs
Week 04
Automate
Identify opportunities to reduce repetitive work and embed Bower more deeply into the workflow.
- Records and reports drafted from captured work
- Agree where the researcher stays in control
What’s included
Hands-on support from day one
Bower Lab Glasses
Give your researchers Bower Smart Glasses to capture and access research hands-free, right at the bench.
Dedicated Bower workspace
A workspace configured around your team’s research workflows.
Workflow configuration
We’ll work with your team to identify and configure the highest-value use cases.
Hands-on onboarding
Get researchers up and running with direct support from the Bower team.
Dedicated product support
Work directly with the people building Bower throughout the program.
Early product access
Experience new capabilities before they become broadly available.
Roadmap influence
Your researchers have a direct channel to the product team and help shape what we build next.
Findings and recommendations
At the end of the program, receive a summary of what we learned, where Bower created value, and where there are further opportunities.
Your commitment
What we ask from your team
The program is designed to be lightweight for your researchers. We ask for:
- A small group of researchers to participate
- One internal champion
- Regular use of Bower during real research (lab or field)
- 90 minutes per week for feedback and check-ins
- Honest feedback on what works, what doesn’t, and what you’d like to see next
Who it’s for
Is the Design Partner Program right for your lab?
The program works best in labs ready to put Bower to work during real experiments.
A good fit
- Have 5+ researchers
- Want to reduce the burden of documentation
- Have valuable expertise that is difficult to capture or share
- Are interested in using AI to improve how research gets done
- Have a team willing to test Bower in real workflows
Probably not the right time
- Recording devices aren’t permitted in your environment
- Your work is primarily computational
- You need a finished, validated product today
Terms, in plain language
Built for real research environments
You’ll receive the full Design Partner Agreement before anything begins.
Your research
Your data, protocols, methods, images, and video remain yours.
Model training
Your research content is not used to train models that serve other customers.
Consent
You decide what people, spaces, and materials can be captured.
Export and deletion
Your content can be exported and deleted on request.
Researcher review
Bower-generated drafts are reviewed by a researcher before becoming part of the research record.
Hardware
Lab Glasses are provided on loan and returned when the program ends.
Cost
Agreed with you in writing before the program begins.
Case studies
Nothing is published without written approval.
Ending the program
Either side can stop with seven days’ notice.
Full compliance documentation is available in our Trust Center →
Limited places · 4-week program
See what Bower could do for your lab
Tell us about your research workflows. We’ll identify where Bower could create the most value and discuss whether the Design Partner Program is a fit for your team.
Hands-on support from the Bower team throughout.