Optagon LabsReads every source you have
Papers, internal experiments, pilot reports, lab notebooks, supplier specs. Backbond pulls intelligence from every source your team has access to — published or proprietary.
Every source you have read and understood
Point Backbond at your papers, notebooks, spec sheets and run data. Every file flies through the engine and comes out the other side as structure: the rules, formulations and results buried inside it.
Stability_study_R7.pdf
Bench notebook wk32.docx
Supplier spec.xlsx
Scale-up review.pptx
The Backbond engine
Building the mindmap…
Rule
Citric acidGel strength
below pH 3.3 the set weakens
Result
set time 18 minpH 3.4bloom 240
Investigate your formulations
Everything Backbond reads becomes one connected knowledge graph: your ingredients, the properties they move, and which way each one pushes. Drag any node to explore it, click one to open what drives it and what it affects, and read the mix itself in the composition panel.
Then ask a question in plain language. Backbond walks that graph for you and shows its whole reasoning, from the recipe it rebalanced and the evidence it weighed to the conclusion it reached. Scroll the answer to follow every step.
Fruit gummy3 ingredients, 7 properties, 9 causal relations
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.
- 1It learns what each ingredient doesRoles, mechanisms and the interactions between them, read off your own data.
- 2It designs and grades hundreds of recipesEvery candidate scored against every target, with the reasoning kept.
- 3It finds the real trade-offsWhere two targets pull against each other, and exactly what each one costs.
- 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.
From every source to every answer
Backbond reads your team's literature and lab data, extracts the rules that govern how your materials behave, and uses those rules to answer any question you ask about your formulation.
Extracts the rules behind your science
Backbond turns what it reads into thousands of typed rules: which ingredients reinforce each other, which cancel each other out, which can swap, and which effects only show up under specific conditions.
Answers any question your team asks
Ask anything about your formulation — what affects an outcome, why a pilot failed, what to try next. Backbond reasons across its rules and gives you a grounded answer in seconds.
Shows you the evidence
Every answer opens into the rules behind it, and every rule opens into the papers, experiments, and samples it was extracted from. Nothing is a black box.
Same approach. Every science
Whether you're building a polymer, a food, an alloy, or a chip, Backbond plugs into your domain and works in your language.
Plastic & Composite Applications
Monomer choices, fillers, additives and cure profiles, and how they affect strength, stiffness and the processing window.
Food & Beverage Development
Ingredients, pH, thermal history and structure, and how they affect texture, stability and sensory.
Metal & Alloy Blends
Composition, heat treatment and microstructure, and how they affect hardness, ductility and corrosion.
Cosmetic & Coating Formulations
Surfactants, phase behaviour and deposition, and how they affect feel, stability and performance.
Semiconductor Formulations
Precursor chemistry, deposition and interfaces, and how they affect dielectric, mobility and yield.
Drug Formulations
Actives, excipients and release systems, and how they affect solubility, bioavailability and shelf life.
Adhesive & Sealant Formulations
Resin chemistry, tack and cure, and how they affect bond strength, substrate fit and ageing.
Agrochemicals & Fertilizers
Actives, carriers and adjuvants, and how they affect uptake, persistence and crop safety.
Your data stays yours
Backbond is built for proprietary R&D. The short version: we never train models on your data, and everything you upload is protected on Google Cloud with encryption in transit and at rest.
Never used for training
Your files, results and formulations are never used to train AI models. Not ours, not anyone else's.
Protected by Google Cloud
Backbond runs on Google Cloud infrastructure. Your data is encrypted in transit and at rest.
Yours to remove
Delete a project and its data goes with it, including the knowledge graph that was built from it.
Frequently asked questions
What does Backbond actually do?
You give it your research: papers, lab notebooks, experiment data, spec sheets, slide decks. It reads all of it and builds a connected map of your science, so you can ask what affects an outcome, why a batch failed, or what to try next, and get an answer grounded in your own results.
How is this different from ChatGPT?
A general chatbot answers from the public internet and cannot see your work. Backbond answers from your team's own files and data, and every answer opens into the specific rules, experiments and papers it came from.
What can we upload?
PDFs, Word documents, PowerPoint decks, Excel and CSV data, images of lab notebook pages, and plain notes. Scanned and table-heavy PDFs are handled too.
Does it just summarize papers?
No. It extracts the causal relationships behind them: which ingredients reinforce each other, which cancel out, which can be swapped, and which effects only appear under certain conditions. Those relationships are what it reasons over.
Do you train AI models on our data?
No. Your data is used to answer your own team's questions and nothing else. It is never used to train models, and it never improves anyone else's product.
Where is our data stored?
On Google Cloud infrastructure, encrypted in transit and at rest. Google's platform carries the industry's standard security certifications, and your workspace sits behind access controls on top of it.
Who can see our projects?
Only the people you invite. Projects are private to your team, and any sharing is explicit and revocable.
Can we take our data out?
Yes. You can delete any project, or your whole workspace, at any time. Deletion removes the data and everything derived from it.
See what your team already knows
Backbond is in use with R&D teams in polymers, food, advanced materials, and semiconductors. Tell us what you're working on and we'll show you what Backbond can do with your data.