Data provenance · translational research
Stop paying the redo tax.
Nonte is the data integrity and provenance platform for pre-clinical and translational research. QA Companion captures the journey of every result (who did what, when and why) alongside the ELN, LIMS and spreadsheets your lab already runs on.
Live system signals · QA Companion
The cost of broken provenance
Three places labs quietly bleed time.
The data exists. The story of how it came to be doesn’t travel with it. So every time a question lands, from a reviewer, a sponsor, or an inspector, someone reconstructs the past by hand.
Prove it again.
A reviewer or sponsor questions a result long after the work. Proving it now means tracing email, file versions and operator memory by hand.
Drop everything.
Every inspection triggers the same scramble: logs, versions, signatures and chain of custody, all assembled retroactively under time pressure.
No source of truth.
ELN, LIMS, spreadsheets, freezer logs, email. The data exists. The story of how it came to be doesn’t travel with it.
Meet Dr Amara.
She did everything right.
Translational research fellow · Lab lead · Principal investigator
Month 1 · What Amara did
01 Ran
Ran the assay. Clean results.
02 Logged
Recorded across the ELN, LIMS and three spreadsheets.
Shipped results into the programme.
Nine months on, the reviewer asked one question: can you prove this data wasn’t touched? The trail was spread across four tools. She couldn’t. Redo it.
Every change logged, tamper-evident.
Results defensible by audit.
No redo.
↓40%
reclaimed
Amara isn't alone.
01
Research gets checked. Then re-checked.
02
03
Nonte makes them defensible by default.
of researchers have failed to reproduce another lab’s results.
[ NATURE, 2016 · VERIFY ]
[ PLOS BIOLOGY, 2015 · VERIFY ]
10–40%
[ NONTE ANALYSIS · VERIFY ]
Quantify it
What is the redo tax costing your lab?
A rough estimate, your assumptions, in your browser. Move the dials.
What Nonte does
The layer underneath how labs actually work.
Three things. Done quietly, in the background, without rewriting your stack.
Capture, don't replace.
Records who did what, when, and why. Automatically, in the background and beside the tools your researchers already use.
Audit-ready by default.
Inspections, peer review, sponsor queries: the evidence is already assembled. No last-minute reconstruction.
Every specimen knows where it lives.
Building, room, shelf, rack, drawer, box. The digital record matches the location specifics with every move tracked.
A glance at the product
Every change. Every move. Every signature.
When a question lands — from a reviewer, an inspector, or a sponsor — the timeline is already there. Field changes, status updates, tray moves, form submissions, exports, reactivations. Nothing reconstructed after the fact.
- Field-level audit trail tied to user, time and study context
- Specimen chain of custody across freezers, racks and trays
- Training certifications surfaced alongside the people doing the work
Per-user activity history
Boundaries, on purpose
What Nonte is not.
We don’t compete with the tools you have. We make them defensible.
Not a lab notebook.
We sit alongside Benchling, LabArchives, eLabFTW. Your ELN stays.
Not a LIMS or QMS.
Sample tracking and quality systems stay put. We make them defensible.
Not a migration project.
No 12-month roll-out. No data import war. Connect, observe, ship.
Why now
Provenance has quietly become a licence condition.
Between HTA licence audits, MHRA inspections and UKRI data management plans, traceability has moved from courtesy to compliance — and the cost of being caught short has risen with it.
Licence audits
Chain of custody, consent records, designated individuals — evidenced on demand, not reconstructed.
Inspections
Data integrity expectations land hardest on the boundaries between systems. That’s where Nonte lives.
Data management plans
Grant conditions increasingly require evidence that traceability is operational, not aspirational.
Book a 20-minute walkthrough.
Using a sample from your own stack. No deck. No procurement conversation. Just the redo tax, quantified for your lab.