Benchling co-founder Ashu Singhal's new product coordinates models, CROs and lab automation around research goals, with scientists setting approval points.
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Benchling is moving its scientific data platform from recording and analyzing experiments toward coordinating their execution. That could make scientific data platforms more operationally important, but the launch provides no measured customer results yet.
Benchling is extending its AI agents from discrete lab tasks into full research workflows, with co-founder and President Ashu Singhal pitching a system that coordinates scientific models, contract research organizations and lab equipment around a shared goal. Benchling launched Science Foundries on October 15th, saying biotech teams can decide which steps agents run and where scientists must approve their work.…