Carbon Data Layer

What it does

Access controls

Carbon describes role-based and resource-level permissions that scope access to instruments and datasets, with an audit trail for commands, edits, and access decisions.checked 4 Oct 2026

Access governance

Users can grant access to data instead of emailing copies, and every read and write is recorded against a name.checked 9 Oct 2026

AI agent

Carbon’s AI agent plans instrument calls from natural-language instructions, shows planned steps, and acts through permissions scoped to the user’s role.checked 4 Oct 2026

Analysis

Carbon provides a Python-first workspace on instrument datasets, with pandas, NumPy, collaborative editing, and managed compute.checked 4 Oct 2026

Audit trail

Commands, edits, and access decisions are recorded and queryable after the fact.checked 9 Oct 2026

Database

Each team gets managed Postgres with a visual schema designer and support for images, files, and waveforms as first-class types.checked 9 Oct 2026

Data pipeline

Instrument output lands as versioned datasets that are immediately queryable from analysis and applications.checked 9 Oct 2026

Deployment

Carbon says its platform can be deployed on-premise inside a lab boundary with segmented networks and limited egress.checked 9 Oct 2026

Governance

The platform lets teams grant access to shared data, and records reads and writes against a name.checked 4 Oct 2026

Instrument profiles

Teams can use shared, versioned YAML profiles for instruments and extend them for their hardware.checked 4 Oct 2026

Integrations

The maker describes analysis and applications as reading the same datasets; it does not name third-party Data Layer integrations on the opened page.checked 9 Oct 2026

Intended users

Carbon describes its platform for research and engineering labs, including biotech, electronics and hardware R&D, academic research, and materials and energy labs.checked 9 Oct 2026

Lineage

Each dataset records the instrument, run, and configuration that produced it.checked 4 Oct 2026

Permissions

Carbon supports role-based access and resource permissions for individual rigs and datasets.checked 9 Oct 2026

Pipeline

Instrument output becomes queryable by Carbon’s analysis and applications systems.checked 4 Oct 2026

Pricing availability

The pricing page asks prospective customers to book a demo or contact sales and does not display a price.checked 4 Oct 2026

Provenance

Each dataset records the instrument, run, and configuration that produced it.checked 9 Oct 2026

Purpose

Carbon Data Layer turns instrument readouts into versioned, governed research datasets that teams can query and share.checked 9 Oct 2026

Sales and support

The pricing page invites prospective customers to book a 30-minute demo or email sales, and says the team will follow up within one business day after a message.checked 9 Oct 2026

Security

Carbon says deployments can run on-premise inside the customer’s boundary with segmented networks and limited egress.checked 4 Oct 2026

Security detail

The opened maker pages describe access controls and audit records but do not state a security certification or compliance standard.checked 9 Oct 2026

Support and deployment

Carbon says engagements start with forward-deployed engineers who map instruments and workflows and help stand up the stack; its pricing page offers a 30-minute demo and says it will follow up within one business day.checked 4 Oct 2026

Who it is for

Carbon presents the platform for biotech and life sciences, electronics and hardware R&D, academic and research labs, and material science and energy teams.checked 4 Oct 2026