Bramante
Cambridge, MAMade in AmericaBacked byY Combinator
The American bench, rebuilt for the era of
robotic, AI-driven life sciences.

Instruments
and reagents
for the foundation
of modern life sciences.

Limited cohort · Q3 2026
Fig. 1 - Cloud + MCP on the bench
I.A note from the studio01 / 04
We rebuilt the bench in America - for the people automating life sciences.
The tools on every modern bench were designed in and for the last century. They’re priced like luxury cars, shipped in eleven weeks, breaking in year two, and serviced (when at all) based on an expensive service contract. The catalog has not changed in twenty years, and there has never been a real alternative to choose from.

The next decade of life sciences will run on robots, AI orchestration, and tightly-instrumented manufacturing. The hardware on the bench has not caught up.
We are going to change that. Every Bramante instrument is designed, assembled, and tested in Massachusetts. Spare parts are on the shelf and the engineer who built your unit on speed-dial. Every box ships with a real REST API, a Python SDK, and an MCP server, so the unit drops into your workflow, your scheduler, your robot, or your agent on day one.

Made in America. Programmable from day one. Serviced by the people who built it.
II.The instruments02 / 04
A working catalog. Designed in-house, machined in the US, API-ready out of the box. All units priced under $100k.
01 / 10
Reagent+ catalog

Growth factors

Recombinant growth factors made in the same building as the instruments. Starting with FGF2, VEGF165, and EGF. Research-grade, lot-traced, priced honestly.

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III.How we work with design partners03 / 04
i.

A standing line to the team

Direct access to engineering. Monthly cohort roundtable.

ii.

Closed-loop QC

Every request gets runs, data, and a written note.

iii.

α + β units on your bench

Pre-production instruments live in your lab.

iv.

Founding-cohort pricing

Production units at preferred pricing when they ship.

IV.Software & service04 / 04

The instrument is only the start.

Every Bramante instrument is designed for the way modern labs actually run - controllable from an agent, programmable from a notebook, and backed by a service team that picks up the phone.
i.

AI & API first

Every unit ships with a clean REST API, a Python SDK, and an MCP server in the box. Drive your instrument from Claude Code, your scheduler, or any agent stack - programmable from day one, no vendor middleware, no add-on licenses.

ii.

Talks to your stack

Connects directly to your laptop and the cloud - over the network it already speaks. No separate Windows-XP industrial PC, no serial cables, no ten-year-old vendor app you can only run on a single Dell tower in the corner of the lab.

iii.

Service that answers

A direct line to the engineer who built your unit. Same-week parts. Annual on-site, included. We service in days what catalog vendors service in quarters.