Field notebook · v0.1 · 2026
SoilFlux
For microscopy consultants and labs

Your slide.
Your call.

A guided workspace for soil-microscopy assessment that keeps the judgement where it belongs — with you — and makes the report you hand a client defensible enough to survive being questioned.

Class review · illustrative
5 / 6 decided
  • Bacteria

    reviewed · 12 FOV

    Present
  • Fungi

    reviewed · 12 FOV

    Present
  • Protozoa — flagellates

    reviewed · 12 FOV

    Present
  • Protozoa — ciliates

    reviewed · 12 FOV

    Absent
  • Nematodes

    sample degraded

    Not assessable
  • Oomycetes

    4 of 12 FOV

    Undecided
Report blocked — one class still undecided.Generate report

Illustrative class review — each organism class worked through to a decision. The report stays blocked while any one of them is undecided.

The workflow

Five steps, one screen at a time.

  1. 01

    Sample

    Register the sample and its context once. No spreadsheet running alongside.

  2. 02

    Upload

    Fields of view, in the order you shot them.

  3. 03

    Annotate

    One organism class at a time, each worked to a decision — present, absent, or not assessable, with a reason.

  4. 04

    Counts

    Bacterial and nematode counts recorded against the same session.

  5. 05

    Report

    A client-ready report, generated only once the assessment is genuinely complete.

The subjects

Beneficials and pathogens alike.

The organism classes an assessment works through, one at a time. Real microscopy from open datasets, with the original attribution preserved beside each plate.

Trichoderma harzianum — Beneficial inoculant · biocontrol agentSample 78

Trichoderma harzianum

Beneficial inoculant · biocontrol agent

Zenodo 10.5281/zenodo.7965200 · CC-BY 4.0

Fusarium spp. — Soilborne pathogen · biocontrol targetSample 04

Fusarium spp.

Soilborne pathogen · biocontrol target

Zenodo 10.5281/zenodo.7965200 · CC-BY 4.0

Verticillium dahliae — Soilborne pathogen · strawberry / cottonSample 106

Verticillium dahliae

Soilborne pathogen · strawberry / cotton

Zenodo 10.5281/zenodo.7965200 · CC-BY 4.0

Phytophthora spp. — Oomycete pathogen · potato / forestrySample 64

Phytophthora spp.

Oomycete pathogen · potato / forestry

Zenodo 10.5281/zenodo.7965200 · CC-BY 4.0

Why the report holds

A report that cannot quietly be wrong.

Complete, or it does not leave

A report will not generate while any required organism class on any included field of view is still undecided. Half-reviewed slides do not become client documents.

Current, provably

A report is released only when a fresh check agrees it reflects your latest edit. Change a count after generating one and the old version stops being downloadable, rather than silently going stale.

Yours alone

Two tabs or two devices cannot overwrite each other's decisions. The work you signed off is the work that ships.

The division of labour

The software does the bookkeeping. You do the biology.

Assisted detection proposes; you dispose. Every proposal is something you accept, correct, or reject — and your correction is the record, not a suggestion the system is free to overrule.

We are equally explicit about what the assist is not. It is not a verdict, and we do not publish an accuracy claim we have not earned. What is proven today is narrower and more useful: the workflow cannot lose your work, cannot ship an incomplete assessment, and cannot hand a client a stale one.

The floor

What it does not do.

It does not sign your name

The assessment is yours. We do not issue an opinion on your behalf, and the report is clear about who made the call.

It does not quantify what we cannot

Some measures are simply not offered, because we cannot stand behind them yet. Absent is better than approximate.

It does not replace your microscope

It is the workspace around it — capture, decide, record, report — so the expertise you already have leaves the room in a form a client can act on.

Put a real slide through it.

Early access is open to practising consultants and labs. The most useful first session is a sample you have already assessed yourself — so you can see whether the record matches your judgement.