Case Studies
From working labs
From a working lab
What an AI sees of an experimental research group
PI-facing tooling around a structured lab notebook, and the queries it makes possible
A short case study in AI-assisted oversight of a distributed experimental group: what an LLM can answer about a working group's people, instruments, and accumulated record — and what has to be in place underneath for those answers to exist.
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Six Years to AI: How One Lab Built the Infrastructure That Made AI Useful
From paper notebooks to natural-language queries across 19 projects
How a thin-film deposition lab spent six years building structured data infrastructure — and what changed the month AI could finally read it.
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Buy the Hardware, Write the Software
From two DOS PCs and a parallel cable to one app on one PC, three deposition systems later
Three magnetron sputter chambers across twenty years and three countries — and what we learned about deposition control by trying to buy it instead of building it.
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Legacy data has a second life
Bringing six-year-old TiZrNi work into the lab notebook, four years after the papers came out
A finished project, two journal papers, four years on a hard drive — and what changes when you pour it into the notebook anyway.
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