We publish our prices. Most of this industry doesn't.
Chrona Pro is $99 a year, per user. Chrona Bio Enterprise is in a design partner phase with a small number of sponsors. Chrona Commons is free. The detail is on this page.
Opacity is a cost the buyer pays.
In biotech software, pricing is something you discover at the end of a six-week sales cycle, after an NDA, three calls, a custom deck, and a quote that depends on questions you weren't told would change the number. The reason vendors do this isn't strategy. It's that the price is embarrassing, or unsteady, or different for the customer next to you.
We don't want to do business that way. We'd rather tell you what things cost on a page you can read on a Saturday afternoon, decide whether the conversation is worth having, and walk in already aligned on what the number is. If we're wrong about a price, we'll change it on this page and say so. That's the whole policy.
$99 per year, per user.
What's included: the Cover Letter Validator, the Table Formatting capability, and the Custom Rules engine — the three things Chrona Pro ships today. Updates over the year are included. The add-in runs inside Word, read-only on your document content, on Office JS. Distribution is Microsoft Marketplace (self-install) or M365 Centralized Deployment (admin push to a group). You pay through the Microsoft Marketplace — single line item, expense-friendly, no procurement cycle required for a single user.
If your team moves to Chrona Bio Enterprise, every Enterprise seat includes Chrona Pro. You don't buy it twice.
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We're taking on design partners now.
The first five design partners get founder-level attention from Brian and Flavia directly, direct influence on what we build next — the friction in your submission process becomes our prioritized work, early access to capabilities as they ship, and design partner pricing. We're currently working with Lumen Bioscience and a small number of others. This is not a discount tier. It's a small number of seats, accessed in the period when the people who built the product still answer every email themselves.
What a design partner is — and isn't.
The term comes from how early-stage software is usually built. A design partner is a customer who joins early enough that the product is still being shaped by the work you do with it. The closest analogue in this industry is a research collaboration: a small number of partners, a real working relationship, mutual commitment, and the result is something neither party could have produced alone. The difference is that the artifact is software, not a paper or a candidate molecule, and you own the work product on your submission the same way you always would.
What we ask of a design partner: a real submission to work on (not a sandbox, not a redacted toy), candid feedback at the cadence the work demands, and willingness to let us reference the partnership publicly when you're comfortable. What you get: direct influence on what we build next — the friction in your submission process becomes our prioritized work; direct, recurring time with Brian and Flavia; capabilities the moment they're ready; and design partner pricing on Chrona Bio Enterprise — held for the duration of the partnership.
- A design partner is not a beta tester — we're not asking you to try the product and report bugs; we're asking you to use it on a real submission.
- It is not a pilot — pilots are time-boxed evaluations with a buy-or-walk gate; design partner is an intent to ship together.
- It is not a discount tier — the price is a feature of the relationship structure, not a sales lever.
When the cohort is full, we'll close it and publish list pricing for Chrona Bio Enterprise on this page.
Free.
Chrona Commons is a public archive of complete IND applications, donated by biotechs and stewarded by Renaissance Philanthropy. Anyone can create an account, view every dossier, and download what they need. There is no paywall and no tier. The archive belongs to the field.
We list it on the pricing page because completeness matters: this is everything you can get from us, and one of the three things is free, by design.
The questions buyers ask before they ask us.
Why $99?
Because anyone who writes an IND should be able to expense Chrona Pro without a procurement conversation. The price is the conviction.
Is $99 per seat or per user?
Per user, per year. One license, one writer. Volume is straightforward — every seat is $99.
How do I buy it?
Single users install Chrona Pro directly from the Microsoft Marketplace. Groups can have their M365 administrator deploy it via Microsoft 365 Centralized Deployment, which pushes the add-in to every assigned user's Word ribbon without each person installing it.
What's included in the $99?
Cover Letter Validator, Table Formatting, and Custom Rules — the three Chrona Pro capabilities shipping today. Updates over the year are included. Future Chrona Pro capabilities ship to existing licenses without an upcharge.
Is there a free trial?
Yes — 14 days, free, through the Microsoft Marketplace. Install it, use it on real work, decide on day fourteen. No credit card held against the trial.
What if my team moves to Chrona Bio Enterprise later?
Every Enterprise seat includes Chrona Pro. You don't pay for Pro twice, and the rules and configurations you've built in Pro carry forward.
What does Chrona Bio Enterprise cost?
We haven't published a list price for Enterprise yet. We will, on this page, once the design partner cohort is closed and the price is one we're confident standing behind. Until then, Enterprise pricing is the design partner price, and the way to find out is to talk to Brian and Flavia.
What does a design partner commit to, in practice?
A real submission to work on with us. Candid feedback at the cadence the work demands. Willingness to let us reference the partnership when you're comfortable with public attribution. That's the substance of it.
How long is the design partner cohort open?
We're sizing it at five sponsors. We're not running a countdown; we're working through conversations one at a time. When the cohort is full, we close it.
We're on Veeva, not SharePoint. Can we still be a design partner?
The Chrona Bio Veeva integration is in active development, and we're recruiting design partners on that path specifically. Talk to Brian and Flavia — that conversation is happening now.
Is there a separate cost for the security review process?
No. Brian and Flavia answer security questionnaires directly. The threat model walk-through, the data flow diagrams, and any documentation your procurement process requires are included in the conversation — not a paid engagement. See the trust page for the architecture.