For laboratories
Better-scoped enquiries. Your decision, every time.
Argentum aims to reduce irrelevant enquiries by helping users describe samples, methods, deliverables and constraints before contacting a laboratory. In the private pilot a person sends a laboratory a concise brief by ordinary email. You can decline, ask for clarification, confirm feasibility for that case only, or state your own terms. Nothing is committed on your behalf, and there is no automated follow-up.
Now
What you can do today.
If we hold evidence for your facility, this is where it begins. It was taken from your own public pages, structured by a pipeline and labelled as such, and it is shown only as a lead to verify — never as availability, a price or a commitment.
- Report a correction. If a fact is wrong or disputed, tell us. We review the request and suppress the fact where appropriate before further use.
- Ask to be left out. We confirm what has been removed and what remains in the internal record.
- Ask about the pilot. Tell us about your facility and how you would like enquiries to reach you.
Laboratories are not charged to correct information or to answer a request.
Direction
Where this is going for laboratories.
Argentum is being developed to help laboratories receive better-structured enquiries and respond without repeating the same clarification process by email. Future workflows may support feasibility questions, quotations and orders, while every laboratory remains in control of what it accepts and on what terms.
Coming with the pilot
Your profile, your prices, no rank to buy.
- Claim a profile by verifying an institutional address; a reviewer maps it to one facility. A claim records who represents you. It does not verify equipment or improve your position.
- Confirm facts one at a time. Confirming one thing never vouches for another, and facts you do not touch keep their level.
- Your prices stay yours. A rate is shown only where you have said it may be, and the basis a public body, an RTO or a commercial laboratory prices on is never presented as quality.
- There is no rank to buy. Results are ordered by method match, then by matched reviewed methods, then by name. No ratings, no reviews, no stars.
How each fact earns its level, from a public page to a completed project, is on how evidence is labelled.
Current coverage: the Netherlands, Belgium and Germany — materials, thin films, surfaces, micro/nanofabrication, photonics and semiconductor-related characterisation. Not yet a global directory.
Public provider profile pages are not available yet. Participation is being prepared; what you can do today is above, and what comes with the pilot is marked as such.