VeraFab · Leukocyte immunophenotyping
€172k/yr/site
01 · The promise
For labs running EuroFlow panels

The immunophenotyping capability of a six-figure clinical flow cytometer,
on the ~€6.0k VeraFab reader.

A single-use silicon-photonics chip runs your EuroFlow panels on a benchtop reader — lighter reagent load, no service contract. We're proving it against labs' own panels right now. See what it could recover on yours, then help us put the concordance data behind it.

Analysis your clinicians can openNo monthly compensation matrixStandardised site to siteReproducible run to runAutomated daily QC reportLoad and run in minutes
By construction — concordance in validation on your own samples.
Your numbers, right nowplanning estimate
€172k
Recoverable per site, per year
under a month
Reader payback
€517k
Across 3 sites
Research use today. CE-IVD and UKCA are a validation and QMS pathway ahead, sequenced with the founding cohort — not a released status. Every figure here is indicative until validated on your own samples during the pilot — not a clinical or regulatory claim.
We won't show you a concordance plot we haven't earned. Here's where the evidence stands.
See it as the budget case, or the bench case.
02 · Your numbers
Your workload
Start from a lab like yours, then fine-tune.
SITES
3 sites
4 panels · 3 sites · Typical haematology lab
The capability case · before the money
Answers the interpretation gap
One shareable, out-of-the-box analysis layer across every site — the referring clinician opens the same gates the bench did. It answers the "software to interpret results" gap directly (concordance in validation).
Standardised across sites
One chip, one reader model, factory-calibrated readout, so a result in one site reproduces in another — cross-site reference-range consistency by construction (in validation).
The panels your cytometer runs, on a ~€6.0k reader
EuroFlow immunophenotyping — the panels your six-figure clinical cytometer runs today — on a single-use chip and a benchtop reader. Cost is the tie-breaker below, not the reason.
The budget case · 3 sites
The P&L backup to the capability case above — cost is the tie-breaker, not the driver.
planning estimate
€172k
Recoverable per site, per year
under a month
Reader payback
€517k
Across 3 sites
Reader lets you retire or avoid replacing an instrument?
Off by default — we count reagent and consumables only. Turn it on only if the reader's routine-screening volume lets you retire an ageing analyser or skip its next replacement. Your confirmatory Cytek/BD stays for deep panels and MRD; this just adds that retired instrument's service-contract saving.
The mechanism · per case: your tubes vs one chip
The auditable line — what a single case costs today against the VeraFab reader.
AML / MDS
7 tubes · 1/day/site
Current€321
VeraFab€45
€276
saved / case
B-CLPD
5 tubes · 1/day/site
Current€231
VeraFab€45
€186
saved / case
LST
1 tube · 4/day/site
Current€51
VeraFab€10
€41
saved / case
+ 1 more panel in the full breakdown below.
How firm is each euro? · per site / year
Defensible today
€0 until you confirm above you'll retire or skip replacing an instrument. Even so: ~€6.0k per reader vs a six-figure clinical cytometer, same method.
€0
In validation (reagent-real)
Deep panels — your multi-tube AML/MDS and classification reagent load vs one chip. Doesn't touch your screening method. In validation on labs' own samples now.
€131,250
Aspirational (flagged upside)
Reagent-free screening via AI virtual staining — in validation. Zero this line out and the case above still stands on its own.
€41,000
On-chip spectral multiplexing runs a multi-tube panel as fewer chips — that's why one chip can stand in for several tubes (in validation).
Why this is conservative
Chips are priced at the complex-panel end, deep panels keep a residual reagent load, labour is off, and the service saving stays off until you confirm the reader retires your incumbent. The reagent lines on the deep panels carry the case without touching your screening method — tighten anything in Assumptions.
What stays the same
We replace the flow-cytometry screening and classification step, not the workflow. No serology, molecular (PCR/NGS/ctDNA), cytogenetics (karyotype/FISH), mass spec, or histology — and deep-sensitivity EuroFlow MRD stays on your reference analyser. Those aren't in these numbers.
03 · Partner
Wherever you run EuroFlow today

EuroFlow panels run on conventional 8-colour cytometers — that's the comparison across this page. Two starting points, one chip.

You run conventional flow cytometry
BD FACSCanto / FACSLyric, Beckman. The reader takes out most of the antibody-reagent, service-contract and bench-time cost of running these panels. The honest trade-off: we're research-use today, not IVD — so we start alongside your validated analyser, not in place of it.
You're moving to spectral
Cytek Aurora, Sony ID7000 · €350k€500k. Our chip runs the same panels for a ~€6.0k reader. And because the spectral platforms are research-use for these panels too, going spectral wouldn't gain you IVD status either — so you give up nothing on regulatory standing, at a fraction of the capital.
How a pilot runs

A blinded side-by-side on your own residual samples — research / parallel use, outside your ISO 15189 scope, so it creates no nonconformity. Who does what:

StepYour labUs
ScopePick 1–2 panels and set aside residual samples after your routine run.Supply the validation protocol and place the reader on site — no capital outlay.
RunRun your samples on your own instrument, as you do today.Run the same samples on the chip, blinded to your result.
AnalyseOpen the shareable analysis and gate as you normally would.Report population-level concordance vs your instrument — a blast gate, CD34/CD117, a lineage call.
CompatibilityKeep your existing tools — FCS exports drop into FlowJo / Infinicyt / Kaluza.No new software seat; we fit your workflow, not the other way round.
Keep the dataKeep every file, and walk away anytime.Co-authorship on the EuroFlow comparison dataset.
Easier biological validation, not just a cheaper box
Prep is sealed on-cartridge and the readout is batch-calibrated, so run-to-run and site-to-site variation shrinks by construction — the biological validation you'd run for any new method has fewer moving parts. We supply the protocol; you validate against your own ground truth, and the regulatory footing stays yours: parallel research use, no nonconformity.

How the numbers are built. Panel tube counts are transcribed from the EuroFlow reference (v1.12, Feb 2025). Reagent cost = tubes × your cost-per-tube; the EuroFlow document specifies composition and µl/test, not antibody prices, so the per-tube figure is yours to set. Reagent-free tags follow the reader's Tier 1/2 (direct physics + AI virtual staining) vs Tier-3 (on-chip fluorescence) tiering, and are shown as in validation. The service-contract saving counts only when the reader retires an incumbent instrument. Every figure is editable in Assumptions and indicative until a joint validation on your samples.

All figures are planning estimates for evaluation, not a clinical or regulatory claim. Throughput and validation data firm up during a design-partner engagement.

Explore the device capability map ↗ — what the chip measures across Tier 1–3, and where it can't help.

Analyse an .fcs file with AI ↗ — upload flow-cytometry data, ask questions in plain English.

VeraFab for pharma R&D ↗ — what we're building and why.

VeraFab for NHS pathology networks ↗, cheaper flow analysis, no new accreditation.

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