Compressing the pace of scientific discovery, by ten.
There are four million papers a year and no human alive can read them. We are building the system that can, and the agents that act on what it reads.
A PhD scientist spends 40% of their time on literature review and 30% on routine data analysis. Sciento exists because both of those percentages should be zero.
We started Sciento after watching a friend, a Stanford postdoc with three first-author Nature papers, quit science. She didn't quit because the work was hard. She quit because the work was repetitive. Every reagent reorder, every literature scan, every methods rewrite was a tax on the 10% of her time that was actually science.
The agent inflection of 2025 made the same observation tractable. Reasoning models can plan. Multi-modal models can read gels. AlphaFold-class systems are addressable as APIs. Stacked together, with deep workflow integration, customer-specific fine-tuning, and a verifier model trained explicitly to abstain, they become a colleague.
We are not building a chatbot for scientists. We are building the colleague.
Five principles. Hard-coded.
Truth before speed
Every claim is cited. Every uncertainty is surfaced. We will not ship a faster agent if it is less honest.
Rigor as a product feature
Evals, audit, reproducibility ship in the same release as the agent that needs them.
Augment, never overwrite
The scientist stays in the loop. Sciento queues, Sciento drafts. Sciento does not press send.
Compounding intelligence
Every customer's workflow makes the next customer's better. Their data stays theirs.
Quiet craft
No keynote pyrotechnics. No emoji-heavy launches. The work speaks.
Optimism without naïveté
AI will accelerate science. It will also require new safeguards. We build both.
Two founders, and a team of key engineers.
Leads product, company, and go-to-market.
Leads AI models, agents, and infrastructure.
Key engineers building the agent loop and the product surface.
Key engineers training domain models and the serving stack.
A $1M seed to build the co-scientist.
Sciento raised a $1M seed round led by 2am VC to reach a repeatable product with our first design partners.