A working autonomous cell for programmable biology

Programmable Bio combines a compact autonomous R&D lab in Hyderabad with LabOS, the software layer that converts an accepted experiment into instrument operations and structured evidence.

Current status: fully operational at R&D scale. The next financing expands instrument breadth, parallel capacity, standardized assays, and external customer access.

Five responsibilities, one experimental loop

Protocol translation

Convert an approved experimental plan into versioned, machine-executable operations for the instruments available in the cell.

Capability and quote

Match requested work to validated methods, materials, capacity, and price. Human review remains in the loop for non-standard programs.

Scheduling

Coordinate instruments, plates, incubation windows, and dependencies to increase useful walkaway time and utilization.

QC and exception handling

Track controls and telemetry, pause or re-queue work when defined conditions fail, and preserve the reason for every intervention.

Provenance

Bind results to method version, instrument, reagent lot, calibration context, and executed parameters.

Experimental graph

Link design, execution, measurement, and outcome so the next computational cycle can learn from both successes and failures.

Operational cell → customer capacity → distributed fleet

Hyderabad R&D cell
Operational now
Selected pilots
EOI access
Expanded cells
Funded scale-up
Catalog + API
Standard workflows
APAC network
Future nodes

We are not raising to prove that a compact autonomous lab can run. It already does. We are raising to turn that working R&D cell into reliable customer capacity.