After months of development, testing, and refinement, we’re proud to announce that Caprix is officially live and ready to support research labs across the country.
This launch isn’t just about releasing software — it’s about transforming how principal investigators plan, forecast, and make decisions in an environment where change is the only constant.
Our journey to this point has been shaped by invaluable feedback from principal investigators at UT Southwestern and Yale. These labs helped us put Caprix through real-world scenarios and guided us toward what mattered most:
- Visibility into how funding truly plays out across multi-year timelines.
- Flexibility to adapt when grants overlap, wind down, or arrive unexpectedly.
- Confidence in planning hires and resources without second-guessing the budget.
By collaborating closely with these institutions, we sharpened Caprix into a tool that reflects the actual challenges labs face, not a generic budgeting platform.
Why Labs Need a Different Kind of Planning Tool
Research labs are unlike any other organization. Funding doesn’t arrive in neat, predictable cycles. Some grants span two years, others five. Personnel come and go as projects evolve and new opportunities present themselves. Labs need to plan across rolling timelines with dozens of variables, yet the tools available have remained static.
For too long, the answer has been spreadsheets. They work—until they don’t. They can’t model multiple “what if” scenarios side by side. They can’t automatically adjust when grant timelines shift. And they certainly don’t reduce the hours of manual updates that PIs shoulder.
Caprix replaces that reactive, manual approach with a dynamic system — one designed for labs, not retrofitted from another industry.
The Power of AI-Driven Forecasting
At the core of Caprix is AI-driven forecasting, built to bring clarity where uncertainty has always been the norm.
Caprix uses AI to:
- Model complex timelines by learning how grants, personnel, and expenses interact over time.
- Forecast multiple scenarios instantly, whether it’s adding a new postdoc, accounting for a grant ending early, or layering in overlapping funding sources.
- Surface risks and opportunities that are hard to see in spreadsheets, helping PIs act with confidence instead of reacting after the fact.
Labs have been looking for ways AI can meaningfully help them — not in abstract promises, but in day-to-day decisions. Caprix delivers that by turning planning into an intelligent, adaptive process.
What Caprix Delivers Today
Caprix provides labs with:
- Dynamic Grant Tracking: One view of all active and pending grants, with timelines that adjust as funding changes.
- AI-Powered Scenario Planning: Explore how different decisions affect your lab’s trajectory — instantly.
- Capacity Forecasting: Align people with funding, ensuring staffing decisions are proactive, not reactive.
- Clear Visibility: Always know how much you have left, how long it will last, and where it’s going.
The result: Caprix gives labs the clarity to operate efficiently today and the agility to adapt to tomorrow.
A Platform Built with PIs, for PIs
Caprix wouldn’t exist without the principal investigators who guided its development. From our earliest prototypes to today’s live release, their feedback shaped every feature.
That was intentional. Tools built for research labs need to be tested under real conditions — in the same way research itself is tested, refined, and validated.
What’s Ahead
Our launch is a starting point. We’re already building toward a future where Caprix expands beyond tracking and forecasting to deliver:
- Deeper AI-driven insights that help labs anticipate not just funding availability, but also resource bottlenecks before they occur.
- Smarter reporting tools that make it easier for PIs to communicate with institutions and collaborators.
- A growing knowledge base of best practices, tutorials, and shared strategies from labs using Caprix.
Our vision is clear: Caprix will be the modern operating system for research planning.
An Invitation to Labs Everywhere
Caprix is more than software. It’s an invitation to rethink how research labs plan for the future.
If you’ve ever wondered how long your funding will last, debated a hiring decision because the budget felt uncertain, or spent weekends updating spreadsheets, Caprix was built for you.
We’re live. We’re ready. And we’re excited to see what labs can achieve when planning is powered by AI and designed for the realities of research.
