Leadership, operations and the bench work in one system, so every figure on the budget traces down to the order, the vial and the experiment behind it.
Floor 01 · Leadership / programs, goals, budget
The story starts at the top. A lead decides what the lab has to deliver, writes it down as a goal and puts money behind it. Everything that happens further down is counted against that plan.
Programs hold funds, funds pay for projects, and projects run experiments. The rest of this page follows one project down that chain and back up.
Floor 02 · Operations / stock, orders, receiving
Stock follows the work. What a run uses leaves the shelf as it is used, low stock is ordered from where you notice it, and a delivery becomes a lot with a place, a lot number and an expiry.
Nothing is typed twice. The run moves the stock, the item raises the order, the order becomes the delivery.
Floor 03 · Facility / Virtual lab
Every bench, cabinet and instrument on one floor plan, with sensors and people moving through it as the work happens.
Floor 03 · Facility / Pebble
Pebble has the footprint of a standard microplate, so it goes anywhere a plate goes. Inside are the sensors and a radio, and what it measures reaches CCA Labs through a base station, onto the floor plan and the record of whatever is on that shelf.
Pebble is available now. It measures temperature, humidity, CO₂ and O₂, and alert thresholds are set per device.
Floor 04 · Lab / runs, bench tools, samples
At the bench the protocol and the record are the same thing. Scientists work through the steps on screen, the numbers they capture become data, and a gate that fails stops the run before anything is wasted.
The gate is part of the workflow, not a note in the margin. A failed count ends the run before a single vial is filled.
The record / lineage, QC, audit
Nothing that happened to the bank is lost in a notebook. Samples know their parents, results live in typed sheets, and the audit trail keeps every action with a name and a time.
Back to floor 01 · Leadership / the loop closes
The lead never asked for a report. The order, the run, the count and the vials were all recorded where they happened, so the budget, the goal and the program are already up to date.
Shared facilities / workspaces, equipment, portfolio, clients
When several companies work in one facility, each gets its own workspace on the same system as the facility. Their runs book the shared equipment, the facility keeps that equipment in compliance, and clients follow their work from outside.
Company A, Company B and Client C each run their own experiments, samples and records, and none of it crosses between them. They share the facility's equipment, down to the shelves of one CO₂ incubator.
Shared with it: Instruments, Inventory, Suppliers
Shared with it: Instruments, Floor Plans
Shared with it: Instruments, Documents
Experiments, samples and records stay inside each workspace.
Company A's incubation step names Incubator 2. When the run is scheduled, CCA Labs books the incubator for Company A. The facility sees who booked it and when, never what the experiment is.
EXP-20260921-004
HEK293 expansion
Incubator 2
Shared by the facility · 37 °C · 5% CO₂
Sep 21, 14:00 to Sep 24, 14:00
What the facility sees
Who and when. No experiment name on the facility's side.
The facility tracks calibration, qualification and service for every instrument. When a check lapses, the instrument stops taking bookings until it is back in order, and Pebble watches the incubators around the clock.
Incubator 2
INC-002
Pass
Due Nov 14
OQ · Pass
Due Mar 3, 2027
Biosafety cabinet 1
BSC-001
Pass
Due Jan 9, 2027
OQ · Pass
Lapsed Sep 18
OQ · Pass
Due Sep 21, 2027
Centrifuge
CEN-003
Pass
Due Oct 9
IQ · Pass
No Expiry
Incubator 1
INC-001
Pass
Due Dec 2
OQ · Pass
Due Feb 11, 2027
Workspaces, equipment and open demand across every company, in one place. Time on shared instruments is charged to the company that used it.
Active Workspaces
3
Assets Available
17
Open Demand
4
Open Reports
2
Instrument time this month
Charged to each company at the instrument's rate.
A client sees its own orders, progress and deliverables, with every sample traceable, and nothing else in the building.
SO-00018
HEK293 expansion and banking
Progress
Deliverables
Certificate of analysisPending
Cryovials, 40Pending
Every sample traceable, from receipt to delivery.
Shared with it: Instruments, Inventory, Suppliers
Shared with it: Instruments, Floor Plans
Shared with it: Instruments, Documents
Experiments, samples and records stay inside each workspace.
Pricing
Start with one team on its own floor, or bring the whole organisation in with a workspace for each team or client.
From £110/ seat / month
For biotech labs and academic groups. Sign up yourself and start the same day.
Custom
For shared labs and organisations with several teams or clients. A package built around your workspaces and how you manage them.
Teaching with CCA Labs or building on it? Request ecosystem access.
The company / Cambridge, UK
The people building CCA Labs, with the advisors and investors backing them. Cell Culture Automation Ltd, based in Cambridge, UK.
CEO
Co-founder
CTO
Co-founder
Director of Business Development
Business
Scientific Advisor
Advisor
Industrial Designer
Design
Angel Investor
Investor
Angel Investor
Investor
FAQ / the lobby directory
Every answer points to the floor where you can see it working.
The operating system for the cell culture lab. It runs the whole organisation in one place, from programs and budgets down to the experiment at the bench, and turns every workflow, sample and instrument event into structured, machine-readable, audit-ready data, starting with the equipment you already have.
Start at the topYes. Funds and project budgets, purchase orders and supplier tracking are built in, with allocated, spent and reserved always in view. It is the same platform that runs your experiments, so the science and the money stay linked.
Go to floor 01, LeadershipYes. CCA Labs includes a full electronic lab notebook for designing and recording experiments and protocols, plus the sample, inventory, budget and hardware layers a standalone ELN doesn't cover, so you are not stitching separate tools together.
Go to floor 04, LabYes. CCA Labs is built to capture structured data from your existing bench and instruments. CCA's own hardware is rolling out alongside it: Pebble telemetry is available today, the Tessera incubator microscope is in early access, and the dALI automation platform is in development.
Go to floor 03, FacilityYou do. The structured data CCA Labs captures is yours to keep, query and export at any time, with no lock-in.
Go to the recordThe tamper-evident, append-only audit trail and electronic signatures are live today. CCA Labs is built to support 21 CFR Part 11 and SOC 2 controls, and formal certification is on the roadmap.
Go to the recordYes. Each company or client gets its own workspace, with its own experiments, samples and records kept apart from everyone else. The facility decides what it shares, such as stores, suppliers, instruments and floor plans, sees across its whole portfolio, and clients can follow their work remotely.
Go to shared facilitiesTeams is for biotech labs and academic groups: you sign up yourself and pay per seat, from £110 per seat per month. Enterprise is for shared labs and organisations that run several teams or clients. It is a custom package built around your workspaces and how you manage them, so there is no fixed price. Academic researchers and builders can request ecosystem access separately.
See the two plansCCA Labs is live. Teams can create a lab at lab.cca.bio and start running experiments, tracking inventory and managing budgets straight away. Onboarding costs nothing: upload your protocols and spreadsheets, the AI reads them and sets up your workflows and inventory in minutes, and you review everything before it is saved. Shared labs and larger organisations can talk to us about an Enterprise package.
Create your labStart with one team. Add workspaces as the work grows.