Backbond
A product by Optagon LabsETH ZürichUniversity of California, Berkeley
The product

Design formulationsfrom scratch

Tell Backbond which properties to move and hand it the ingredients you can actually buy. It designs candidate recipes, grades every one against every target, and works out where those targets fight each other.

What comes back is not a ranking. It is the few experiments that cover the most ground on the bench.

See the engine
Searches
Hundreds of candidate recipes per run, each one graded against every target, with the reasoning behind the grade kept.
Finds the trade-offs
Where two targets pull against each other, and exactly what a point of one costs you in the other.
Returns
A short list chosen to cover the most ground on the bench, which is not the same list as the top scores.

Design formulations from scratch

Tell Backbond which properties to move and hand it your ingredients. It designs candidate recipes, grades every one against every target, works out where those targets fight each other, and hands back the few worth making.

  1. 1It learns what each ingredient doesRoles, mechanisms and the interactions between them, read off your own data.
  2. 2It designs and grades hundreds of recipesEvery candidate scored against every target, with the reasoning kept.
  3. 3It finds the real trade-offsWhere two targets pull against each other, and exactly what each one costs.
  4. 4It hands back a short listThe few experiments that cover the most ground on the bench.

Discovering each ingredient's role

The results, at a glance

Design space map
Candidate recipes clustered by similarity.
Pareto frontiers
Where two targets trade off, and the recipes on the edge.
Property comparison
The chosen experiments, target by target.

Bring one problem, and four short lists

The search, the modelling and the shortlist are on us. Bring a project, the ingredients you can source and the properties you have to hit, and we will run it with you.

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