You describe the experiment in plain words. It reads the instrument's screen, sets the parameters, runs the procedure, watches the output, and tells you what it found.
Most users run the same three protocols because the manual is a thousand pages and the expert who set things up has graduated. The instrument's full capability goes unused.
Setting parameters, babysitting the run, recognising bad output, adjusting mid-experiment — this takes a trained operator's full attention and most of their working day.
Procedures live in heads and lab notebooks. When people leave, the knowledge walks out with them. Every new student starts from scratch.
The agent sits in front of the instrument's screen the way an expert operator would. The difference is what it can hold in its head at once — and that it never forgets.
Every run it performs adds to its knowledge. Every manual it reads stays available. Every failure it logs becomes a diagnostic it can draw on next time.
The system attaches to the instrument's existing control software. Nothing is added to the hardware. The operator interface stays the same; another set of hands now uses it.
Reads your request, looks up the sample and instrument, and writes a plan: which procedure, what parameters, in what order, with what checks.
Drives the instrument's native software the way an operator would: clicks menus, types parameters, reads the same status messages. No vendor integration required.
Structured record of instruments, samples, and procedures the system has seen — including which combinations have worked and which have failed.
Validated procedures the system can call by name. Each procedure is reviewed before it joins the library. New ones are added as the system encounters new instruments.
Watches every action against a permissions tier. Anything that could affect the hardware stops and asks a human first. Defaults are conservative.
Permissions are explicit. Each action the system takes is checked against a tier, set by the facility manager and visible in every run log. Nothing happens silently.
Defaults are conservative: a new instrument starts at Tier 1. Higher tiers are unlocked only after a facility manager signs off.
Nuclear magnetic resonance is one of the most powerful and most operationally demanding instruments in science. A 600 MHz magnet that runs nine to five is running at a third of its capacity.
We built the agent here first — shimming, locking, running pulse sequences, processing spectra, diagnosing problems — because if it works on NMR, it works on anything with a screen and a procedure.
Structural biologist. Thirty years operating spectrometers, from TROSY to in-cell NMR. Faculty at NTU, Singapore.
The reason the system gets the experiments right.
PhD in physics. Built ML systems used by NASA and central banks; founded an AI engineering company before this. Faculty at NUS College, Singapore.
The reason the system gets the software right.
We're a small team in Singapore. If this is your kind of problem, we'd like to hear from you.
Get in touch →We're taking on a small number of pilot facilities through 2026. A pilot starts with a single instrument, an agreed list of procedures, and Tier 1 access only.
You keep your data, your software, and your hardware untouched. We set up, train on your standard procedures, and step back.
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