Fair.
The whole company in one word. Buying the tools you need to do science should not feel like a negotiation you are losing.
Proteins
Media
Enzymes
Resins
We make what a lab uses every day: recombinant proteins, media, enzymes, and chromatography resins. We also build LabKick, the software that runs the lab around them. Same rule for both: the price, the spec, and the lead time are on the page before you ask.
If we cannot do the thing you need, you hear that from us before you order, not after.
Ask most suppliers what a protein costs and you get a form. The form gets you a salesperson. The salesperson gets you a price that depends on who you are, what you bought last year, and how much of the quarter is left in their number. There is a list price, and everyone involved knows it is theater. What you pay measures how hard you pushed, not what the material cost to make.
Then there is the part you find out afterward. Eleven weeks, discovered after the purchase order cleared, because the lead time was never on the page. Or the resin you budgeted for arrives as eleven line items and the number you approved is not the number on the invoice. None of this is a law of the business. It is what happens when the sales organization costs more to run than the plant.
Every one of those habits is a choice someone made. We made the other choice.
The answer is structural, and it is not heroic. Most of the big catalogs are private-equity rollups: a dozen old brands bought up, stapled together, and pointed at a growth target. That structure comes with a sales force, a commission plan, a distributor tier, and a quarterly number to hit. All of it is paid for out of the price of your vial.
We don’t carry that. We are independent and small. No commissions, no channel, no owner asking what we can raise prices on this year. That is the whole trick. We can put one price on the page, keep it there, and still be a healthy business. That makes staying independent a product decision, not a preference.
The same logic is why we bundle instead of slicing. Cutting one product into eleven line items is a pricing tactic, not a design. LabKick is sold as one thing: every module, one price, for less than one competitor charges for a single module of theirs. When we ship something new, you already have it. On the catalog side, the Certificate of Analysis, the datasheet, and the lot record come with the product, not with a document fee.
Three things, and you can hold us to all three.
We publish the price, the spec, and the lead time. When we can’t do something, we say so before you order. No quote gate, no sales call, no runaround.
In stock ships the same business day when confirmed by 1pm ET, one to two days in US transit. Custom quotes come back within 24 hours.
Every lot released against a published spec, with a Certificate of Analysis tied to your exact lot. Lot to lot, it is the same material.
Honest is the one that costs us money, so it is the one to judge us on. It is easy to publish a price when you are winning and hard when you are not. We publish it either way.
One number, visible before you tell us your name, and the same number for a first-year graduate student and a twenty-site pharma. There is no discount ladder to climb because there is no ladder.
Purity, endotoxin, activity, formulation, storage. You can read what a lot has to pass while you are still deciding, not after the invoice.
In stock, made to order with a day count, or not available. You should never learn the real date after the purchase order has cleared.
If we can’t hit your spec, your scale, or your date, we tell you that instead of taking the order and managing you through the slip. Turning down work is cheaper than losing your trust.
A documented quality system, a retained sample of every lot we ship, and a release spec published before you buy. Every claim we make can be checked against material we still hold, which is a stronger thing to offer than a certificate on a wall.
Everything in the catalog is sold for research use only, and we will not blur that line to win an order.
In stock means it is on a shelf in Cambridge right now, not in a warehouse on another continent. Confirm the order by 1pm ET on a business day and it ships that day, next business day after the cutoff, one to two days in US transit. Nothing crosses an ocean or waits on a customs broker, and dry-ice items move on overnight service only, so the cold chain never sits out a weekend.
Custom and made-to-order work gets a real quote with a real date within 24 hours. If the honest date is eight weeks, you know that tomorrow instead of next month. Fast is partly about shipping and mostly about not wasting your time: the experiment you cancel early costs far less than the one that stalls halfway.
Every lot is released against a published spec before it can be sold. The Certificate of Analysis reports what was measured on the lot in your box. Your lot number, your numbers, not a catalog-wide typical value borrowed from whichever batch was convenient. Material that misses spec is scrapped, not quietly discounted into the catalog.
We retain a sample of every lot we ship, so a result can be re-checked a year later against the same material you used. This is the boring pillar on purpose. Your assay should not be able to tell one order from the next, and a number in your methods section should still mean something when someone tries to repeat it.
The methods, limits, and release criteria behind all of this are on Quality →
Here is the bet, stated plainly so you can hold us to it. Within a few years, most of the ordering, tracking, and record-keeping in a lab will be done by an agent working for a scientist, not by a person filling in a web form. A supplier that hides its catalog behind a quote request is invisible to that agent.
So we built for it first. The catalog, specs, prices, stock levels, and lead times are readable over MCP, the open protocol agents use to call tools. LabKick is drivable the same way: anything you can do in the interface, an agent can do over MCP with your permission. This is the same bet as publishing prices, one layer down. A machine can only compare suppliers that publish.
$ mcp call catalog.get_product {"slug": "fgf2-human-recombinant"}
{
"sku": "GF-FGF2-HU-1MG",
"name": "Recombinant Human FGF2 (bFGF, 154 aa)",
"pack": "1 mg",
"price_usd": 160,
"availability": "in_stock",
"ships": "same business day",
"purity": "≥98% (SDS-PAGE & RP-HPLC)",
"endotoxin": "<0.1 EU/µg",
"coa": "per lot, on request or with shipment"
}Bramante Biologics Corporation160 Alewife Brook ParkwaySTE 1316Cambridge, MA 02138USA
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