# b12 Labs: AI planning and automation for chemical synthesis

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Author: Ali Abouelatta (https://thelazyweb.com/authors/ali-abouelatta/)
Published: 2026-09-19
Updated: 2026-09-19
Research type: Company profile
Method: Company and accelerator sources checked 2026-09-19. Product claims are attributed to their sources; this is research, not a hands-on product trial.

b12 Labs is building a software-to-lab bridge for pharma and biotech teams that need to make difficult molecules, not just generate another plausible route on a screen. Its product is a set of AI tools for synthesis planning, condition optimization and automation-ready execution.

## What it does

The [current b12 homepage](https://b12-labs.com/) breaks the workflow into three products. Selenium proposes ranked retrosynthesis strategies from a target molecule. Palladium designs high-throughput condition screens across catalysts, ligands, bases and solvents. Cobalt translates an approved method into protocols for lab automation platforms such as Chemspeed and Opentrons. The site says each tool can be used independently, and that scientists can describe intent in natural language without writing the protocol code themselves.

The buyer is a chemistry or process-development group with real experiments, expensive equipment and a planning-to-execution bottleneck. b12 says teams can start free

[b12 Labs: AI planning and automation for chemical synthesis](<https://www.thelazyweb.com/companies/b12-labs/>)

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