Going All-in on cytario
Living up to our values
We believe that when a small company like us is asking customers to trust it with their pathology data, the least they can expect is transparency. That is why it is one of our company core values and sharing our recent internal changes here is owning up to that.
/m & cytario
cytario was born as a side project of /m – Slash-m GmbH – where we were focused on providing custom consulting services around software and technology in the space of medical software and especially Digital Pathology.
There is tremendous value in offering and leveraging such services and we are very grateful for the insights and learnings we gained from that. We are also very proud to say that we’ve been able to deliver results that made a real difference.
cytario emerged also because of the learnings from the consulting work. It became crystal clear that Spatial Biology deserves a more flexible, interoperable and overall more capable foundation.
We have used machine learning for over 10 years and recent advancements with foundational models as well as new approaches with LLMs are highly promising. Yet we still ship hard drives across the globe, accept complex image format conversion pipelines and software solutions that are walled gardens. That’s what cytario is here to solve.
New Focus
After working on cytario for more than two years next to the day-to-day consulting work, it has become clear that a project like cytario needs and deserves more attention than it received in the past.
Which is why we are taking a bold step today. As ongoing consulting projects wrap up (existing commitments of course honored in full), we are going to focus our efforts on the cytario platform. While we stay open to customers that need consulting services that are aligned with what we do with cytario, the consulting will become a much smaller part of our business.
We are turning the page from a consulting firm with a software product on the side to a Digital Pathology software vendor that also offers consulting.
Of course, this step is not without risk. Which is why you may notice a change to the roles and titles. Slash-m GmbH has been founded by Martin Schulze and he continues to be the sole CEO & Founder. Johannes Siedler, with his wealth of experience in Software and Digital Pathology, has been key to turning cytario from an idea into a real product and he continues to be in his role as Principal Engineer. Anton Borodko, who has supported cytario from DevOps to test automation, will focus on the consulting part of the business.
We are very excited about this new focus on cytario and look forward to bringing a much more capable foundation to Digital Pathology.
Interested to see how cytario can improve your Digital Pathology workflows? Let’s talk — happy to demo the platform and discuss any questions.