Calira

Calira (formerly Clustermarket) is a smart lab equipment booking platform built for R&D LabOps professionals. It gives researchers an easy, visual way to book shared instruments, helps lab managers eliminate scheduling conflicts and unplanned downtime, and turns everyday booking activity into structured, actionable usage data. Since launching its booking tool in 2019, Calira has facilitated over 12 million lab equipment bookings across more than 1,800 labs, 68,000 instruments, and 82,000 users spanning 53 countries.

The platform is designed around the reality that no two labs operate the same way — different science, different equipment, different workflows, and different pressures. Calira adapts to each lab's specific needs, connecting tactical booking improvements to strategic organisational insight, from the individual bench all the way up to multi-site CapEx planning.

Core Product Modules

• Equipment Management: Build a structured, searchable directory of all lab instruments. Add equipment individually or in bulk via templated CSV import. Enrich records with metadata, location information, purchase price, tags, and labels. Upload safety documents, SOPs, and maintenance contracts with expiry reminders, and assign equipment to specific rooms, labs, or buildings.
• Equipment Booking: Provide lab users with a visual, drag-and-drop calendar interface for reserving the instruments they need. AI-enabled, workflow-based reservations allow booking of multiple instruments in sequence based on protocol and availability. Lab-specific booking rules control how and when users can book, including restrictions based on training status.
• AI and Data Analysis: Chat with an AI data analysis tool to get instant answers about lab activity. Export clean, structured reports covering usage, equipment, maintenance, training, personnel, and sites. Deliver richer reporting to finance teams, data teams, and decision-makers who require it.
• Maintenance Tracking: Prevent downtime through visible maintenance tracking, safer access controls, and smarter user permissions.
• User and Notification Management: Manage user access and permissions across labs, and send automated notifications to keep teams informed.
• LabTrack™: A dedicated capability referenced as part of the platform's broader feature set for tracking lab activity.

Key Capabilities and Features

• Mobile-compatible interface for booking and managing equipment on the go
• QR code booking, enabling users to scan and reserve instruments directly at the bench
• Calendar sync to integrate lab bookings with existing scheduling tools
• Support for unlimited labs within a single organisation
• Automatic booking sequences based on research protocol and real-time availability
• Workflow-based reservations for multi-instrument research processes
• Granular utilisation data down to the exact minute of equipment use
• Exportable, filterable data ready for integration with ELN, AI, or BI platforms

LabOps Use Cases

• Improve Asset Visibility: Build a complete, searchable equipment directory enriched with location data and purchase information so teams always know what's available and where.
• Stop Booking Conflicts: Make equipment availability transparent to all lab users, enabling confident shared-instrument booking and eliminating double bookings.
• Track Utilisation: Reduce idle time and maximise usage of shared equipment with real-time visibility and control across the entire equipment fleet.
• Prevent Downtime: Proactively manage maintenance schedules, access controls, and user permissions to keep instruments operational.
• Plan CapEx: Use clean usage data to make confident investment decisions — identifying what's being used, what isn't, and where reallocation or consolidation is possible instead of new purchases.
• Get AI-Ready Data: Turn lab usage activity into a structured data foundation that is exportable, filterable, and ready for downstream AI or business intelligence workflows.

Scale and Organisational Insight

• Addresses scheduling and visibility challenges at every level — from the individual bench to the lab, the site, and across the entire organisation
• Enables cross-building equipment sharing and fleet consolidation decisions
• Supports global CapEx efficiency analysis and structured data readiness across multiple sites and countries
• Serves a range of customer types including SMBs, enterprise R&D organisations, shared labs, and academic institutions

Notable Customers and Integrations

• Customers include Lonza, AviadoBio, Moa Technology, Nykode Therapeutics, Freenome, and the University of Iceland Science Park, among others
• Integrations available with ELN, AI, and BI platforms to extend the value of structured lab usage data
• GDPR-compliant, with published privacy, terms, sub-processor, and cookie policies

Calira's mission is to remove operational friction from research environments so that scientists can focus on discovery. By connecting equipment visibility, booking efficiency, and structured usage data into a single platform, Calira helps LabOps teams run smoother, make smarter investment decisions, and build a data foundation ready for the future of AI-driven research operations.