Surena Lab builds the software for the part of research nobody funds: writing it down. Local-first, open, and made for the agents that now sit beside every researcher.
A paper is a claim, the code that produced its figures, and the people who argued over every sentence. Today those three live in different places, and the seams between them are where errors hide and time goes. We build the place where they sit together, on your own machine, under your own version control, with an agent that proposes and a person who decides.
Your paper and your data never leave your disk unless you send them. Collaboration happens between machines, not through ours.
Every change an agent makes is isolated, shown as a diff, and accepted hunk by hunk. Nothing lands unread.
The source, the plan and the design notes are public. A tool for research should be inspectable by the people who rely on it.
A desktop editor for scientific papers. LaTeX that reads like the compiled page, the scripts behind the figures, Git, live coauthors with no server, and an AI agent that edits on a branch of its own and hands you the diff. One window, three platforms, free and open source.
Dabir is Persian for scribe. Surena was the Parthian general who beat Rome at Carrhae with archers who could turn in the saddle. The mark is an iwan, the vaulted hall of his century: a hall is what a lab is.
We are building with a small group of researchers before anything is public. Write to us with the tools you use today and what breaks; early access goes to people who answer.