ChemPilotThe future of chemistry for critical materials.
Materials for defense and aerospace, developed in a closed loop from computation to the laboratory bench.
What we do
Materials set the limits. Chemistry moves them.
We are building an autonomous lab that collapses a decade of materials development into one continuous loop that proposes, makes and tests new materials.
Manifesto
What we believe.
- 01
Sovereignty is a materials problem.
The critical chemicals behind defense and aerospace programs are concentrated in a few places, some of them hostile. Producing them at home, at scale and on time is a matter of security, not procurement.
- 02
Legacy R&D cannot keep pace.
The primes and chemical companies the West relies on still develop materials the way they did decades ago: manually, slowly, one experiment at a time. Innovation moves faster than that.
- 03
The next chemical companies will be built on AI, automation and robotics.
Software proposes and predicts, automated laboratories test, and every result trains the next decision. Legacy cost structures will not survive it.
- 04
Our future should be determined by what we can make.
One closed loop from first idea to finished material, owning every step from design to production.
Approach
AI and computational chemistry are the brain.
The laboratory is the hands.
Models decide what to make. Robots make it and measure it. Every experiment makes the next one smarter.
Our mission: reinvent chemical R&D so the West can produce critical materials at the speed of innovation.
Backed by
Y Combinator, Fall 2026