Research & Development

Orion is the agentic science platform for small molecule design.

Run discovery work in one place. Orion helps teams move from target product profile to candidate selection with autonomous research, medicinal chemistry reasoning, molecule visuals, and decision-ready outputs.

Orion workbench

Agentic research and small molecule design

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Orion research and development workbench showing small molecule design candidates, execution logs, and visual fragment analysis

Modality focus

Small molecule design

Discovery loop

TPP to candidate selection

Outputs

Reports, molecules, rationale

Orion for R&D

Product infrastructure for research teams working on molecules, not another generic AI layer.

DNA replication

Replication fork unwinding with daughter strands extending in opposite directions.

Autonomous research, structured for science

Orion runs discovery workflows with a defined scientific shape. It does not stop at conversational answers. It produces ranked ideas, evidence trails, and concrete outputs your team can interrogate.

Built for medicinal chemistry decisions

The current Orion workflow is tuned for small molecule design, where potency alone is never enough. It keeps pharmacology, ADME, selectivity, liabilities, and developability in the same frame.

A visual workspace, not a black box

Runs, candidate fragments, molecule visuals, execution logs, and reports stay visible in one interface so scientists can see what happened and why a direction was chosen.

Scientific workflow

Research and design in one operating surface.

Orion brings prompts, execution context, molecule tables, visual fragments, and terminal activity into a single workspace. That makes the system usable for real R&D work instead of isolated AI outputs.

Persistent workbench for runs, sessions, and reports

Scientific execution logs instead of opaque status messages

DNA polymerase

Active elongation

Small molecule candidates

Gefitinib

COc1cc2ncnc(Nc3ccc(F)c(Cl)c3)c2cc1OCCCN1CCOCC1

Sorafenib

CNC(=O)c1cc(Oc2ccc(NC(=O)Nc3ccc(Cl)c(C(F)(F)F)c3)cc2)ccn1

Osimertinib

COc1cc(N(C)CCN(C)C)c(NC(C)=C)c2ncnc(Nc3ccc(F)c(Cl)c3)c12

Small molecule focus

Designed around the tradeoffs that actually matter.

The underlying Orion workflow explicitly follows the medicinal chemistry loop: target product profile, hit discovery, hit-to-lead, lead optimization, and candidate selection. Each stage stays connected to binding, potency, and developability constraints.

Mitotic cell

Co-optimization across potency, solubility, permeability, and stability

Explicit attention to selectivity and safety liabilities

Discovery loop

Orion follows the real shape of small molecule discovery.

Discovery progression

01

Target product profile

02

Hit discovery

03

Hit-to-lead

04

Lead optimization

05

Candidate selection

Launch Orion

Give your R&D team a platform built for molecule discovery.

Orion keeps the scientific reasoning, the workflow, and the outputs in one place so teams can move faster without losing the logic behind each decision.