For companies & CROs

Same engine. Commercial terms.

Academic labs use the tools for free. Companies and contract research organisations license them — as seats, as a site licence, or embedded in their own service — and commission projects with commercial rights on the results. This page answers the procurement questions before a contract does.

Software
Seats · Site · OEM
Services
Commercial rights available
Confidentiality
NDA before data
Registered works
5 · CIPO 2026
Software licences

Three ways to run the engine in-house.

Most common
01

Commercial seats

Per seat, per year.

Installed and kept current through the same Launcher academic labs use. Every module, every update, per named user. Priced below one failed synthesis round — the arithmetic that justifies it.

For: internal teams at biotech, diagnostics and sensing companies.
02

Site licence

Per site, per year.

Unlimited seats at one site, plus the calibration updates as they ship. Built for CROs that run selections continuously and want the engine on every analyst's machine without seat counting.

For: SELEX contract research organisations.
03

OEM / white-label

Embed it in your own service.

The analysis engine inside your own aptamer offering, under your brand, with an annual fee and a small share of the revenue it generates. Engineering support for the integration is part of the agreement.

For: CROs that want to sell structure-aware analysis as their own.

Pricing is quoted per organisation once we know seat count and scope. Request a quote →

Rights on project results

What you can ask for, and what we keep.

Research use

The default for academic groups: use the candidates and reports for research, cite the tools, publish freely.

Commercial use

Use the candidates from a Rescue or Discovery in a product, assay or sensor. Agreed up front, in writing, per project — it does not change the price of the analysis itself.

Exclusivity

Exclusivity on a target for candidates we produced is negotiable per project. We do not grant exclusivity on the software or the method.

Publication review

The partner lab keeps the right to publish the science. You review any manuscript before submission; your identity, target and sequences stay out of it unless you agree otherwise in writing.

Your data, your ownership

Sequencing data you send remains yours. We do not train models on it or reuse it in other projects without written permission.

Contract, not website

The service agreement governs; this page describes the options we have agreed to before so the first call is about your project, not about definitions.

Confidentiality & data handling

NDA first. Then the data.

  • An NDA is signed before any data moves — ours, or yours if you prefer.
  • Data is received through a private transfer link, used only for the commissioned project, and never shared with third parties.
  • The partner laboratory sees your data only for wet-lab work you commission (Discovery, validation). Computational projects stay with the AptaPilot team.
  • On request at project close we delete the raw data and keep only what the agreement says we keep — typically the report and its checksums.
  • Every report states its thresholds and carries input checksums, so your own team can audit the figures against the files you sent.
Procurement checklist
› NDA template — ours or yours
› service agreement — scope, milestones, rights
› data-processing terms — use, access, deletion
› invoice — fixed / staged per agreement
› software works registered — CIPO 1248957–1248961

Tell us the seat count, or the target.

We reply by email with a quote or a scoping call.
Request a quote →[email protected]
AptaPilot — aptamer discovery, done right · Waterloo, CanadaFounder · Xiaohan Zhang