Lab Atlas.
The complete map of Spatial-Biology services.
Spatial Biology buyers had no map.
Spatial Biology is a fast-growing, fragmented field. Researchers picking a platform had to crawl vendor PDFs, conference posters, and Twitter threads to compare instruments — a process that took weeks and still missed half the market.
One indexed, faceted catalog.
Lab Atlas pulls company, product, and service data into a single searchable index. Researchers filter by modality, sample type, throughput, and price tier; vendors get a clean, factual profile page they can claim and update.
Faceted search
Modality, sample type, throughput, price tier — filter the way researchers actually compare.
Vendor-neutral
No promoted listings. Order is determined by relevance, not ad spend.
Claimable profiles
Vendors can claim and maintain their own listings — keeps the catalog fresh.
How it came together
- 01
Interviewed researchers
Talked to 12 spatial-bio scientists to understand how they actually pick instruments.
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Built the schema
Modeled products around the comparison facets that mattered most: modality, sample, throughput.
- 03
Seeded the index
Hand-curated the first 100 companies before opening claim-your-listing to vendors.
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Shipped search
Indexed the catalog into Algolia for sub-100ms faceted search; tuned ranking with researcher feedback.
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