TL;DR:

Drug discovery is slow, and it costs billions of dollars. The bottleneck in early discovery is chemical synthesis. b-12 is building a full stack of AI agents to deliver planning and robotic executions of experiments, in minutes, not months. Our team has developed custom robots for chemistry (Chemspeed), orchestrated AI agents for lab control (EPFL & IBM), and is translating this into a powerful and easy-to-use product.

Ask: Are you running chemistry experiments or chemical robots? Do you know someone who is? Email us at founders@b12-labs.com to be added to our pilot program. See below for details.

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❌ The problem:

Drug Discovery is slow:

• It takes 10+ years and over $2 billion to discover a new drug.
• 2 in 10000 compounds make it.
• Chemistry execution is very slow.

Experiments take time! Designing good experiments and trial and error in the lab are big factors.

Software for chemists is fragmented:

• There are many solutions for many different parts of the pipeline.
• Tools are outdated, and integration is largely missing.

Lab robots are underused:

• Most lab robots are not accessible to scientists because they are hard to use.
• Drag and drop software for multimillion-dollar robotic labs.
• Lab automation engineers are hard to find.

Current State:

b-12:

✅ Our Solution:

We are integrating a full stack of Agents to design experiments and write code for the robot that runs these experiments, with the tools and context needed to predict chemically meaningful results, and close the experimental loop.

Key capabilities of our Agents:

• Streamline Experiment Planning: Our tools accelerate creation of experimental details based on literature and expert tools, and tailor the output to the user’s specific needs.
• Unified platform: Our platform integrates several agents that are in tight communication and can go from natural language input to robotic execution in minutes.
• No coding required - use natural language: With arbitrary input flexibility, we can control the robot the same way you would talk to your lab-mates, including inputs from previous runs, and uploading relevant documents.
• Parallel and scalable to any lab: We are vendor agnostic, and integrate with different robotics (Chemspeed, Unchained, Opentrons, etc.) and labs performing experiments manually.

Pilot Program: Our team will work on integrating Agentic solutions tailored to your lab's specific problems, whether you use lab automation or not. We want to speed up molecular discovery.

👥 Our Team:

We are Zlatko and Andres, and in the past, we have:

1. Worked with big pharma (Roche), Chemical Robotics (Chemspeed), and big chemical data (MaxPlanck);
2. Pioneered AI agents for chemistry and retrosynthesis (at EPFL);
3. Invented new chemistry;

Now we want to integrate it into a seamless platform, where anyone who wants to run experiments gets extra brainpower and an additional pair of hands.

🙏 Our Ask:

Do you know anyone in chemistry working in the pharmaceutical or biotech industry?

We would love a warm intro!

Send us an email at:

founders@b12-labs.com or send them to our website: b12-labs.com