CLI tools & pipelines
Command-line tools that finish from one command, print well on a terminal and stay readable in a log. Pipelines that run the same on a laptop and a cluster.
Better3 studio · scientific cli tools · web apps · custom softwarebase camp · 51.84° N, 5.86° E · Nijmegen, NLavailable for Q1 2027
We build the tools researchers wish they had.
Scientific CLI tools, web apps and custom software. Built in the Netherlands.
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01 manifesto
Better data. Structured first, built on second. Every result traces to a row.
Better design. Terminal, phone or paper, it reads. Nothing decorative, nothing hidden.
Better results. Every number shows its working. The code is yours to keep.
02 selected work
all 4 →2026 · knowledge base · research01/03
research vaults
A curated knowledge vault per subject: one summary per paper, two indexes, a citation graph, a dashboard, and a retrieval protocol that checks whether a claim has since been overturned.
2026 · web app · surveillance02/03
amr islands dashboard
An annotation pipeline and three static pages over NCBI Pathogen Detection: where each resistance gene sits, what it travels with, how its family varies and folds, and whether the lab result agrees with the genotype.
2026 · data · models03/03
ai-ready data
Extraction, structure, embeddings and a frozen validation split: the groundwork before any model, done so that whatever is trained or asked can be measured.
03 tools
all tools →SciFlowweb
A live feed of new microbiology papers and preprints. Filter by journal, subject, author or affiliation, read in place, save a set, get the weekly digest.
Manzatweb
A colour-palette generator in the browser. Build a palette, check it on light and dark, hand it over as a single link.
An editor for animated figures: thirty-odd components from bar charts to command typers and phylogenetic trees, exported as PNG or GIF.
Phylo3sdesktop
A phylogenetic tree viewer and annotator. Upload a tree, annotate it in the app, export a publication figure. Desktop or self-hosted, same code.
04 services
details →Web apps & dashboards
Browsers and dashboards over your own data: typed API, fast database, a front end your group will actually open. Self-hosted, no accounts you do not need.
Custom software & automation
The glue nobody budgets for: metadata fetchers, curation workflows, report generators, agents that watch a queue. Specified in a page, delivered with tests.
05 how we work
- 1
Brief
A one-page description of the job, the inputs and what "done" looks like. We reply with scope, price and a date.
- 2
Prototype
A runnable first cut on your data within two weeks. Ugly on purpose; correct where it matters.
- 3
Build
Validation panel, regression gate, plain-text fallback, docs. Numbers come with the limits they do not cover.
- 4
Handover
Repository, docs, report and the right to run it without us. We stay reachable; you are not locked in.