A marketplace connecting scientific ideas to the lab capacity needed to test them.
The barriers to generating hypotheses have collapsed - AI can suggest thousands of experiments. But the barriers to testing those hypotheses remain as high as ever.
Minimum engagements of $10K-50K+. Weeks of quoting before work begins. Not designed for one-off hypothesis testing.
Too expensiveBuilt for programmers, not scientists. Require learning domain-specific languages like SLL or Autoprotocol to encode experiments. Subscriptions start at $24K+/month.
Too technicalMonths of relationship-building. Often demand co-authorship. Depend on finding aligned interests.
Too slowWe teach you how to go from curiosity to testable hypothesis. Understand what makes a hypothesis testable, use AI tools to refine ideas, and structure requests for execution.
No programming required. Submit your hypothesis and acceptance criteria in plain English using standardized templates. We handle translation to whatever the executing lab needs.
Qualified operators claim and execute your experiment with full documentation. Payment is held in escrow until you approve the results.
You have lab access, expensive equipment, and underutilized time slots. Turn that into income by executing experiments for the Litmus community.
Active access to an accredited research facility
PI approval or facility agreement for external work
Verified skills in your claimed techniques
All experiment requests and results are public by default. This builds a shared resource: validated (and invalidated) hypotheses that benefit the entire scientific community, enable reproducibility, and prevent duplicate work.
Our tools are open source too. Use the Litmus MCP server to let AI agents design and submit experiments programmatically. Browse the docs, contribute, or build your own integrations.
Identity confirmation, institutional affiliation, authorization documentation, competency assessment.
Timestamped photos/videos, lab notebook entries, raw data files with metadata.
Payment held until you approve results. Clear acceptance criteria minimize disputes.
Random subset re-run by different operators to verify reproducibility.
Be among the first to run experiments on Litmus. We're accepting applications from citizen scientists, AI researchers, and lab operators.
We'll reach out when we're ready for you. No spam, ever.