Enterprises rely on hundreds of thousands of chemical compounds — and they have no scalable way to know what's actually in their products. Safer Materials Advisor uses chemistry-native AI to surface hidden risks, map global regulations, and propose safer alternatives in minutes, not months.
Suppliers protect their formulations. Compounds are renamed at every step of the value chain. Regulations change across dozens of jurisdictions. A single PFAS payout from 3M reached $10 billion — and that's just the tip of the iceberg. Compliance teams are drowning in PDFs while regulators, insurers, and consumers escalate scrutiny.
Six interlocking capabilities — built on chemistry-native AI — answer the four questions every materials team needs to answer: What's in our products? How is it regulated? What's the hazard profile? And what are the safer alternatives?
Automated extraction from unstructured technical supplier documents — SDS, technical data sheets, regulatory filings — at scale.
Mapping to global regulations with structure-, use-case- and jurisdiction-aware analysis for small molecules and complex polymers.
Classification of undisclosed precursors and trade-secret compounds, with consistency checks across the supply chain.
Data retrieval and predictive models for human-health and environmental endpoints — even for novel and undisclosed chemicals.
Safer alternatives ranked by safety, performance, cost, regulatory resilience, and other strategic dimensions.
Phase 2Audit-ready dashboards and exports with full provenance and explainability — designed for enterprise governance.
A rich curated knowledge fabric with automated ingestion and extraction — and full provenance tracking from source document to inferred answer.
Domain-specific foundation models and LLMs — covering analog identification, regulatory interpretation, hazard assessment, and chemical reasoning across 11 deployed FMs.
Modular agentic orchestration with hybrid cloud and on-premise deployment options — built to enterprise-grade security standards from day one.
Adjacent platforms cover portfolio management, EHS compliance, or molecular discovery — but none combine chemistry-native reasoning with regulatory, hazard, and substitution intelligence in a single layer.
Annual subscription with three pricing tiers, structured for the classic land-and-expand motion: identification first, substitution workflows next, enterprise-wide deployment as the engine.
PhD Polymer Chemistry, University of Bayreuth. Leading the SMA initiative at IBM Research with deep expertise in polymer science and enterprise materials strategy.
PhD Artificial Intelligence, Cardiff University. Senior IBM Research scientist driving the agentic AI architecture, foundation models, and enterprise platform engineering.
PhD Chemistry, California Institute of Technology. Chemical-risk methodologies and scientific strategy, with two decades of materials science research at IBM.
Four current researchers from IBM Research spanning materials modeling, LLM and agentic engineering, platform architecture, and chemical risk methodologies — all committed to the spin-out.
Spin-out contingent on closing the seed round and initiated immediately after funding. Exclusive IP license, full commercial rights, NSF Convergence Accelerator funding transferred. IBM retains a small equity share and continues as a customer.
We're raising a $6M seed to build the intelligence layer for global materials safety. Detailed financials, the data room, and the technical brief are available on request.