Start with a question
Set inputs and constraints, choose a built-in or qualified experiment, and capture what really happened.
Independent scientific software in development
See science from every angle.
Good research doesn't stop at an answer. It asks what happened, how we know, and whether we can prove it again. Solithra is building CFLab to make experiments, observations, and evidence easier to explore.
The live site test is a limited browser experiment. The full CFLab research engine is not publicly available.
Meet CFLab
A research workbench built around understanding.
CFLab is experimental scientific software. It combines controlled experiments, interchangeable observation lenses, and recorded evidence in one extensible environment.
Change the perspective
Look through multiple lenses without silently changing the underlying experiment or its original evidence.
Keep a verifiable record
Preserve settings, outputs, and provenance so a result can be revisited, compared, and checked by others.
The guided research journey
Four steps. One understandable workflow.
The goal is to make the scientific process accessible to people who know their research even if they don't know how to write software.
GUIDED TOURStep 1 of 5
Choose a question
Start with a research question and a defined objective.
Open the Live Website Observatory ↗Choose a question
Start with an approved experiment and a clearly defined objective.
Set your controls
Define parameters, baseline comparisons, and what would count as evidence.
Observe through lenses
Explore what the same recorded events reveal in different representations.
Review and preserve
Inspect limitations, compare runs, and retain evidence for independent verification.
The lens conceptOne experiment.
One experiment.
Many perspectives.
A lens changes how researchers examine the result. It does not turn an observation into a fact or change the underlying scientific record.
Designed to grow
Tools should adapt to the research.
CFLab's architecture separates the experiment, lenses, and scientific record. That means new domains can use shared infrastructure while retaining their own methods and controls.
- Guided workflow alongside advanced controls
- Extendable experiments and lenses
- Explicit provenance and evidence retention
- Physical instrumentation as integrations mature
Evidence notebook
Research progress, with its limitations included.
Our focus is not simply generating impressive-looking results. It's verifying that CFLab can run a controlled workflow, preserve scientific evidence, and reproduce what it observes.
Public data. Recorded controls. Reproducible runs.
We tested CFLab with the historical Wisconsin Diagnostic Breast Cancer dataset: frozen source data, a preselected measurement, training and held-out partitions, comparison controls, and preserved observation records.
569Historical data records
2Matching scientific runs
What this supports: a reproducible software demonstration. What it does not support: a clinically validated diagnostic, a new biomarker, treatment, or cure.
Dataset: UCI Breast Cancer Wisconsin (Diagnostic) · DOI 10.24432/C5DW2B · CC BY 4.0.
1,964 checks passed
The development checkout passed 1,964 internal automated tests across 183 isolated modules. These are engineering tests, not clinical validation.
Controls matter
Baseline comparisons, shuffled-label checks, and stated uncertainties help distinguish evidence from unsupported conclusions.
Live public website experiment
Real site data. Different perspectives.
Try a safe, bounded CFLab-inspired experiment on this very website. Your browser measures actual HTTPS response times, returned file sizes, and SHA-256 content integrity for the published homepage and logo.
No login, private datasets, or simulated traffic figures. Each run provides six actual resource checks and an optional evidence download.
What you'll observe
Three ways to read the evidence
- Response-time comparisons across repeated requests
- Decoded file sizes of live website resources
- Content fingerprints checked against the published release
Visitor counts and host-wide uptime are not measurable from a visitor's browser. This is not the full CFLab desktop engine or a cryptocurrency proof-of-work test.
What comes next
Build carefully. Share what works.
We're intentionally separating the public-facing site from the full scientific desktop instrument until the desktop workflow is polished and verified.
01 · Website
Explain Solithra and CFLab clearly, show verified work, and make the experience intuitive on mobile.
02 · CFLab desktop
Improve onboarding, interface clarity, tooltips, and guided research without sacrificing repeatability.
03 · Web Demo Lab
Bring a curated, safe part of the approved desktop experience into the browser, after the desktop workflow is ready.
Helpful answers
Questions worth asking.
Is CFLab available to download?
Not yet. We're validating the research platform and refining the desktop experience before any broader distribution.
Do I need to know how to program?
Our goal is for researchers to use guided steps and helpful explanations, while still providing advanced tools to those who need them. The accessible workflow is being refined.
What is a scientific lens?
It's a way to examine an experiment's recorded observations. Lenses can support different graphs, transformations, or views while preserving the underlying evidence.
Can I try a live experiment in my browser?
Yes. Our Live Website Observatory tests this site's own public resources from your browser. It is a limited demonstration of the CFLab workflow, not access to the CFLab desktop experiment engine or private research. A broader public Demo Lab is still planned for later.
Is the biomedical experiment a medical breakthrough?
No. It is a software-instrument demonstration on a historical public dataset. It does not establish clinical validity or the discovery of a treatment.
The Solithra mission
Make exploration more understandable and reproducible.
We believe research tools should let people challenge assumptions, test alternate perspectives, and keep evidence they can revisit. CFLab is our work toward a scientific instrument built around those principles.
Solithra LLC · Independent scientific research software development