For lab heads and PIs

A notebook your lab keeps using after the first week.

Gelly is quick enough for the bench, so the record gets written. You get a lab where protocols, runs and results survive students leaving, and where every AI contribution is labelled.

Lab pricing

See what your lab is running

One view of running experiments, deviations and fresh results across shared notebooks. Open any run and see the protocol version, who did each step, and what changed.

Shared notebooksRun logDeviations

AKPETase film assay · run 3step 5 of 6 · 2 timersRunning

DRCAR T activation · plate 2induced late · noted at step 2Deviation

JMGolden Gate, 5 partscolony PCR sized · 4 of 7 correctResult

LSMiniprep and test digestwaiting for a decision: enzymesWaiting

Hand-over that works

When someone leaves, their notebooks, protocols with every revision, plasmid maps and freezer positions stay with the lab, and the lab drive keeps dated backups of all of it. The next person starts from the best run, not a blank page.

Protocol versionsInventoryRun series

Protocol · v7 · 23 runsBest run: v6, run 18 (L. Schmidt) · 3 deviations explained the low yield in runs 9–11

Moved to the lab14 notebooks · 61 plasmids · 212 tubes with freezer positions

Where your data goes

What happens to your data, feature by feature.

Scientists asked us for this before trying Gelly, so here it is in one table.

When you…	What is sent	Where it goes
Write in a notebook	Notebook text and blocks	Gelly's database: DigitalOcean, Frankfurt
Add a PDF or attachment	The file, encrypted with a key made on your device	File storage: Scaleway, Paris. We see an ID and ciphertext, not the content
Ask the AI about a file	The parts the question needs, for that answer only	The model you pick: GPT (OpenAI, US) or DeepSeek V4.1 Flash, hosted by GreenPT on Scaleway in Paris. Requests are logged in Langfuse (Dublin) to check answer quality
Choose a local model on a desktop	The question and its sources are answered on your computer	Inference stays local; notebook sync and online tools work as usual
Search the literature	Your search terms	Europe PMC and PubMed; results ranked by a model hosted in the EU
Start a voice call	Your voice and the notebook context the call needs	OpenAI, US. Gelly tells you before your first call
Drop FCS files	Results: gates, counts and plots	Gelly's database in Frankfurt. Raw event files stay on your computer
Share a page	The page, encrypted before upload	File storage in Paris; the key is only in the link

Signed recordsEach block carries its author's account signature and the time it was added.

AI you can auditAI-written content names the model and the person who added it, until someone edits it.

Private notesA note type only people can read: no AI access, even inside a shared notebook.

Backups in your own driveDated, signed copies in Google Drive, OneDrive, Dropbox or Nextcloud, after each run or every night.

Partner labs

A four-week pilot, set up for you.

For labs that want to try Gelly properly. We do the setup work; your lab runs real experiments.

Week 1Your protocols in GellySend us the three protocols your lab runs most. We set them up, with decisions and timers.
Week 2One hour with the labA session at your lab meeting, then everyone runs one protocol at the bench.
Week 3Inventory and analysisImport your reagent list and freezer boxes; connect gels, flow or microscopy.
Week 4Review with youWhat your lab recorded, what it missed, and whether Gelly is worth it. No obligation.

Questions PIs ask

Does Gelly replace our electronic lab notebook?

For many groups, yes: notebooks, protocols, inventory and analysis are in one place. If your institute requires a specific ELN, the automatic backups put every notebook in your drive as Markdown and PDF, ready to file there too.

Who owns the data?

You and your institution, and a copy stays with you. Gelly writes dated, signed backups to your lab's own Google Drive, OneDrive, Dropbox or Nextcloud: after each finished run, every night, or on the schedule you set. Each backup holds the notebooks as Markdown and PDF, the papers, and protocols, sequences and references in open formats (JSON, GenBank, FASTA, BibTeX, spreadsheets), with a checksum manifest and a verifier. Gelly only adds new dated folders and never deletes old ones.

Which AI models see our data?

Only the model you use for a request, and only what that request needs. Text questions go to GPT (OpenAI, US) or to DeepSeek V4.1 Flash, hosted in Paris; voice calls use OpenAI. You pick the model per question. The table above lists each case.

Can unpublished work stay confidential?

Notebooks are private to the people you invite. Shared pages are end-to-end encrypted. We sign an NDA on request before a pilot.

Does it work without internet in the lab?

Yes. Gelly works offline and syncs when the device is back online. AI answers need a connection.

How do we pay?

By card per seat, or by invoice and purchase order for labs and institutes.