Context you can inspect
Relevant papers, protocols, prior data, goals, and assumptions can be gathered around the question at hand. Source-backed outputs retain links to the documents and excerpts that informed them.
The technology that keeps AI grounded in science
Potato turns scientific context into structured models that can support experiment design, execution, and the next decision.
Increase the growth rate of these cells
This technical foundation creates the structure future agents will need to participate in more of the workflow safely and usefully.
Built around scientific constraints and scientist control
Potato builds tools to interpret papers, protocols and assay constraints, organize context, and identify the decisions that need to be made.
Judgment stays with the scientist
Users can correct assumptions, approve ranges, specify objectives, add laboratory constraints, and override recommendations when experience or local knowledge should govern the decision.
Better defaults for scientific work
Potato presents relevant experimental modes, metrics, units, ranges, controls, and decision points rather than requiring the user to invent the right prompt from scratch.
Structured model interactions
Language-model outputs are requested in defined scientific structures with allowable fields and values. This reduces ambiguity and gives downstream systems something they can calculate, verify, and execute.
The right system for each part of the problem
Potato uses language models where scientific meaning has to be interpreted: papers, protocols, goals, assumptions, and user inputs. The parts that need exactness, such as quantitative metrics are handled by deterministic mathematical algorithms.
Mathematical methods
Potato applies quantitative methods directly instead of asking a language model to improvise the math. Depending on the workflow, this can include design of experiments, Latin hypercube or factorial sampling, Bayesian optimization, assay-performance metric computations, dose-response modeling, calibration, and dilution calculations.
The methods operate on laboratory-usable values: defined units, practical increments, approved ranges, candidate conditions, and plate capacity.
Verification
Potato creates structured representations of scientific workflows and checks whether the pieces remain internally consistent. Verification systems can test calculations, material lineage, source availability, volume limits, well capacity, step order, required controls, and other relationships that should agree before work proceeds.
For source-backed research, provenance provides another form of verification by connecting claims and protocol details to specific documents and excerpts.
Simulation
Before an executable workflow reaches the lab, Potato can model what will happen in the physical system. Liquid movements update available volumes and compositions. Plate layouts account for controls, replicates, standards, and usable capacity. Automation plans can be checked against labware, deck, module, pipette, and instrument constraints.
Simulation exposes impossible transfers, insufficient material, capacity conflicts, and execution failures while the experiment can still be revised.
From scientific context to executable work
Across Potato, the same technical foundation supports different portions of the scientific workflow. The level of modeling, verification, and simulation depends on the tool and how close the output is to execution.
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Assemble the context
Bring together the relevant scientific questions, papers, protocols, prior data, goals, assumptions, and local constraints.
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Structure the scientific problem
Represent factors, ranges, materials, controls, readouts, units, decision points, and physical limits in a form the system can work with.
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Apply the appropriate methods
Use scientific defaults and quantitative methods to compare evidence, develop a plan, explore interacting variables, or prioritize informative experimental conditions.
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Verify and simulate
Check internal consistency, calculations, material flow, capacity, step order, and execution constraints at the level required by the workflow.
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Produce a reviewable next step
Generate source-backed research, plans, protocol drafts, parameter tables, plate maps, worklists, or automation-ready files. Keep results tied to the conditions that produced them so the next decision starts from what actually happened.
One technical foundation across Potato
Each Potato tool uses the parts of this architecture that fit the scientific task in front of the user.
The Optimizer
Use DoE and Bayesian optimization to generate experiment-ready plate designs and prioritize the next conditions to test within real lab constraints.
MethodsVerifySimulateLiterature Sets
Build a focused, reusable collection of relevant papers and sources around a scientific question or assay area.
ContextProvenancePaper Review
Generate a structured analysis of a paper’s methods, findings, and limitations to speed critical evaluation.
StructureProvenanceDocument Comparison
Compare multiple scientific documents side-by-side to highlight similarities, differences, and key decision-relevant details.
StructureVerifyResearch Plan
Turn a research objective into a stepwise experimental plan with clear stages and rationale.
ContextMethodsProtocol Builder
Convert your goal into a practical, reproducible protocol draft you can refine for lab execution.
VerifySimulateBuilt for private scientific work
Each Potato tool uses the parts of this architecture that fit the scientific task in front of the user.
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Start with a paper, a protocol, a research question, or a plate-based assay. Potato helps structure the context, apply the appropriate scientific methods, and produce a next step you can inspect.
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