AI has solved software. Biology is the next frontier. We're hiring across every team at Adaptyv. We’ve built the best automated lab for protein designers to experimentally test their AI-designed proteins. Today, the most advanced protein design companies run their wet-lab work on Adaptyv, from the biggest biopharmas to frontier AI labs to dozens of virtual biotech startups. Demand has grown faster than we have, so we’re hiring across the board: • Bio: Research associates, scientists and lab technicians to develop and run new assays at scale. • Lab automation: Engineers and interns to onboard new lab instruments and scale our automation infrastructure. • Software: Product and backend engineers to scale LabOS, our internal lab orchestration platform, our API for agents and the data pipelines that turn messy physical-world data into clean results. • Partnerships, customer success and operations: Building partnerships with AI & pharma labs, making sure customers understand their data and can run more campaigns, making sure the company operations run smoothly

What happens when you let frontier LLMs design proteins, and then synthesize and test them in a wet lab? We ran a protein design competition with @muni_bio where AI agents competed against humans to design molecules that bind TREM2, a key receptor linked to Alzheimer’s. Results: GPT 5.2 and Grok 4.1 both placed in the top 5, with molecules showing strong binding to TREM2 when tested in our lab.

Honest caveat: we measured binding, on one target, in one day, which is the easy half of a therapeutic. We'd go as far as to claim binding is roughly solved. Whether agent-grade design holds for developability, immunogenicity, PK/PD or in vivo potency, we don't know yet.

We've been saying it for a while, and @labriataphd makes the same case in his new article: binder design is having its AlphaFold moment. Several of our open competitions are cited as the main wet-lab evidence: BindCraft on EGFR, @cradlebio on the follow-up, and the Nipah competition with >8% binder rate and 26 single-digit nM binders.

Starting today, you can submit protein candidates from Benchling directly to the Adaptyv wet-lab. We're launching as part of @benchling's Direct Ordering Partners, alongside @TwistBioscience for DNA synthesis and @Ginkgo for antibody developability.

Some of our customers already run this way, meaning a few designers with Benchling accounts and Adaptyv as the lab. As of today, test it on Adaptyv is one click away from where their work already lives.