Curvenote GTM brain

Curvenote provides scientific content management, authoring and interactive publishing tools for research institutions and scholarly publishers.

category

Scientific content management and publishing

market profile

  • text: Computational research is often reduced to static PDFs, losing the code, data and context needed for reuse.
  • text: Open-access journals face article processing costs and pressure to make publication more equitable.

personas

  • title: Scientific society publishing director
    pains:
    • Static articles disconnect publications from data and imagery
    • Per-article costs and repeated typesetting constrain open-access publishing
  • title: Research institution knowledge or data leader
    pains:
    • Methods and research context get lost across documents and teams
    • Datasets and protocols cannot easily be found and reused
  • title: Computational researcher or journal editor
    pains:
    • Publishing a static PDF omits interactive code and data
    • Recreating earlier analyses and complying with submission formats takes time

icp

  • text: Scientific societies and publishers running open-access, overlay or continuous journals, especially those publishing data-rich work.
  • text: Universities and research institutions with multiple teams managing reusable research assets and provenance.
  • text: Computational research communities already using open standards and notebook-based workflows.

message pillars

  • text: Connect knowledge to the underlying evidence.
  • text: Make research components shareable and reusable.
  • text: Combine open research formats with enterprise support.

objections

  • objection: Can we keep our existing tools and standards?
    response: Map current notebooks, repositories and metadata requirements to integrations and test a representative submission.
  • objection: Will publishing more articles make our costs unpredictable?
    response: The SCMS pricing page describes one annual fee rather than per-article increases; request contract details.
  • objection: Will authors have to abandon familiar outputs?
    response: Test publishing and export paths on a real manuscript before moving a journal workflow.

competitors

  • name: Authorea
    why: Scientific writing and publication platform with overlapping collaborative authoring.
  • name: Overleaf
    why: Widely used collaborative scientific manuscript authoring tool.
  • name: Manubot
    why: Open scientific writing and manuscript generation workflow.

influencers

  • name: Rowan Cockett
    url: https://curvenote.com/about
    why: Co-founder and CEO, computational researcher focused on interactive scientific communication.
  • name: Steve Purves
    url: https://curvenote.com/about
    why: Co-founder and CTO building scientific communication infrastructure.

keywords

  • scientific content management system
  • interactive journal publishing
  • reproducible research publishing
  • open access journal platform
  • scientific data provenance
  • MyST Markdown
  • computational notebook publishing

voice

  • Researcher-led and empathetic
  • Open and collaborative
  • Direct and ambitious

signals

  • text: A scientific society is launching or migrating an interactive open-access journal.
  • text: A research organization wants to preserve provenance and reuse methods across projects.

stack

  • MyST Markdown
  • Jupyter

pricing

model: flat

motion

hybrid

channels

  • Open source community
  • SEO
  • case studies
  • LinkedIn

confidence

high

Founders

  • name: Rowan Cockett
    title: Founder
    role: Founder
    bio: I started and sold my previous web-based 3d visualization startup while I was finishing my PhD in computational geophysics. I then ran the cloud team at Seequent ($1.05B exit, 2021). I am interested in the intersection of education, industry, and research, and am on a mission to make powerful scientific data, visualization and communication tools accessible through the web. Curvenote is part of my mission to reimagine collective knowledge creation for modern science.
  • name: Steve Purves
    title: Founder
    role: Founder
    bio: An engineer with 20+ years industry experience building software for scientists and engineers. Deep technical expertise in computer vision, data science and machine learning. Led product development and R&D teams and managed multi-year R&D projects with Oil & Gas majors. In 2013, he founded a consultancy and leading distributed technical teams in both startups and enterprise in energy, healthcare, finance and electronic manufacturing. Founding member of an open geoscience society.

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