Introducing Benchling Agents, your infinite program team
Today we’re launching Benchling Agents, the next step toward giving every scientist an infinite program team.
Benchling AI currently helps scientists capture scientific data, find historical information, and run complex analyses. Now, Agents can take action. They can register molecules, create notebook entries, process results, update workflows, and more.
Build your own Agents in minutes, customized to how your organization works. Agents run automatically as work happens: processing data as it arrives from a CRO, comparing a study to historical work as it’s designed, or ordering a reagent as it runs low, just like a proactive colleague should.
Intelligence on tap for the decisions that matter
Making a medicine is a series of critical decisions: which hits to carry forward, what animal models to use, how to design key studies. Making the wrong choices can cost months to years of wasted effort and expensive rework.
Benchling Agents can leverage the entirety of an organization’s experimental history to draw connections that no individual can track on their own. For example, at a pharma company, our Agents narrowed 20 potential mouse oncology models down to two, saving eight months of redundant animal studies, all by identifying models that had already been tested years ago by an acquired company.
Today, bringing that much context to every decision is practically impossible. Benchling Agents change that. They monitor ongoing work and bring the organization’s accumulated knowledge to every important decision:
Review proposed candidates against prior programs for known risks before they advance
Check every new study design for statistical rigor and learnings from past designs
Recommend follow-up experiments based on incoming results and prior work
Eliminating whitespace to speed up science
Between each decision are experiments, the lengthy and time-consuming part of R&D. AI can’t make cells grow faster, but it can automate away the manual work and coordination costs that burden scientists.
A scientist finishes an experiment on Friday and realizes a reagent needed for the next step is out of stock. The order goes in Monday, the reagent arrives Wednesday, and the next experiment slips a week. Multiply small delays like this across hundreds of experiments and an R&D program can lose months to work that isn’t science.
Imagine a world where scientists could spend 100% of their time on science. Agents can eliminate the overhead between experiments:
Monitor inventory and request materials before they become a bottleneck
Process and analyze CRO data immediately to decide on follow-up assays
Keep downstream teams up to date as experiments progress
Getting started with Agents
All Benchling customers have access to Benchling Agents. They’re free while in Preview, so give it a try today: click the sparkle icon and open Agents under the menu.
If you’d like help setting up your first Agent, sign up here.
