We build tools that replace the slow, manual work that dominates behavioural neuroscience — from building disease models to scoring video to tracking social hierarchies in group-housed colonies.
A modern behavioural study flows from model induction through single-animal assays to social-level experiments. Each stage has its own bottleneck — and we've built something for each.
Building chronic depression or anxiety models traditionally means weeks of hands-on stress protocols — manual, repetitive, and inconsistent across batches.
Open field, elevated plus maze, tail suspension — the classical paradigms still rely on stopwatch scoring of hours of video, one animal at a time.
Social hierarchy, affiliation, and group dynamics demand continuous observation of multiple identifiable animals — a gap commercial systems don't cover.
Three complementary projects, each with its own role in the research pipeline — and its own model for how researchers access it.
Multi-animal behavioural tracking system. 144-channel RFID + video fusion tracks up to 20 individually identified mice continuously, in their home environment. 41 metrics output per session.
Explore TruMouse Pro → Free & Open SourceZero-code desktop software for classical single-animal paradigms — OFT, TST, NOR, EPM, Y-Maze. Batch video analysis, local processing, GPL-3.0 on GitHub.
Explore MouseScope → Partner ProductAutomated chronic stress platform for depression and anxiety modelling. Supports CUMS and CRS protocols with programmable, unattended stress delivery for batch-consistent results.
Explore BlueBox →It shouldn't.
Every hour a postdoc spends timing mouse freezing bouts with a stopwatch is an hour not spent designing the next experiment or reading the literature. The bottleneck isn't intelligence — it's logistics.
Manual scoring introduces inter-rater variability that automated, parameter-tracked workflows eliminate by construction. Reproducibility isn't a virtue you bolt on — it's baked into the tool chain.
Social behaviour, hierarchy formation, and individual differences emerge only at the group scale — and only over long time horizons. The instruments for this kind of work are still being built.
Every tool we build has been designed with researchers who actively run the experiments it automates. Features exist because a specific assay needed them — not because a product manager drew up a roadmap.
Whether you're evaluating TruMouse Pro for your laboratory, downloading MouseScope, or curious about BlueBox — start with a conversation.
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