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Intellegens is a Cambridge-based applied machine learning software company whose flagship platform, Alchemite™, is purpose-built to accelerate R&D across chemicals, materials, life sciences, food and fast-moving consumer goods (FMCG), and manufacturing. Founded on technology originating from the Cavendish Laboratory at the University of Cambridge under Dr. Gareth Conduit, Intellegens has developed a unique AI toolset capable of training machine learning models from sparse or noisy data — conditions where conventional ML approaches typically fail. In 2023, Intellegens was recognized as AI Company of the Year at the Cambridge Independent Science and Technology Awards.

Intellegens serves scientists and engineers who need to optimize products and processes while reducing experimental workloads by 50–80%, enabling faster time to market at lower cost. The company's vision is that machine learning will drive innovation wherever data is used in R&D, and it partners with customers across research-based industries to increase experimental efficiency and design better products and processes.

Alchemite™ Suite — Core Products

• Alchemite™ for Design of Experiments (DOE): Cuts experimental workloads by 50–80% while identifying solutions that traditional DOE methods would miss. It guides researchers toward fewer, faster, and better experiments.
• Alchemite™ for Formulations: Accelerates formulation development for materials, chemicals, and consumer products, providing a fast track to winning formulations and a sharper competitive edge.
• Alchemite™ for R&D Insights: Unlocks hidden value in existing datasets, applying machine learning to surface actionable insights and empower data-driven decision making.

Core Technology Capabilities

• Trains accurate ML models from sparse or noisy R&D data, where other approaches fail.
• Delivers high-quality uncertainty quantification using nonparametric probability distributions, so users understand how much reliance to place on predictions and can track improvement as more data is added.
• Predicts outputs for new sets of inputs, enabling virtual experiments that test hypotheses at low effort.
• Suggests input configurations to achieve target outputs, supporting experiment design and product ideation.
• Identifies the most important input variables driving key outputs, providing interpretable insights for R&D teams.

Notable Customers and Case Studies

• Yili: Optimized dairy product formulations, rapidly eliminating unnecessary ingredients and speeding up development.
• Johnson Matthey: Identified improved catalyst formulation designs requiring five times fewer experiments.
• Voestalpine: Gained insight into additive manufacturing (AM) alloy development, achieving nearly 40% cost savings in manufacturing and testing.
• Genentech: Applied Alchemite™ to drug discovery datasets, leveraging both chemical and experimental information to inform R&D decisions.
• FUCHS Group: Applied Alchemite™ to lubricant formulation development, improving performance by 50% and reaching results faster.
• Domino Printing Sciences: Reduced formulation timescales by months in the development of new inks.
• NASA: Used Alchemite™ to expand data scientists' bandwidth for materials informatics, supporting material and component design.
• OCAS (ArcelorMittal): Extracted insights from process, property, and microstructure data to improve steel properties.
• AMRC, Boeing, Constellium, and GE Additive: Collaborated on additive manufacturing DOE to rapidly optimize process parameters for new powders and machines.
• CPI: Applied machine learning in life sciences R&D contexts.

Services, Integrations, and Deployment

• Scientific services are available to help customers — particularly enterprise implementations — get up to speed quickly and apply machine learning effectively.
• The Alchemite™ technology can be embedded as a computational engine within third-party platforms, augmenting any application that needs to validate data, build models, predict outcomes, or optimize processes.
• Intellegens collaborates with experts across research-based industries through integration partnerships to enrich the Alchemite™ offering and develop new solutions.
• A free trial is available, allowing new users to experience the platform before committing.

Intellegens continues to grow its team and partner network, welcoming customers, integration partners, and new employees as it expands the application of Alchemite™ across the global R&D community.

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Software attributed to Intellegens

• Alchemite SuiteView
• Alchemite for DOEView
• Alchemite for FormulationsView
• Alchemite for R&D InsightsView
• Alchemite for Oligonucleotide ManufacturingView

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