AI-Powered Metabolic Pathway Design

Program cells to manufacture
anything from CO2

GenesisEngine designs complete biosynthetic pathways from target molecule to production-ready organism blueprint. AI-powered metabolic engineering that replaces petrochemistry with programmable biology.

400M tons of chemicals. $6T industry. 8% of global CO2. Biology can do better.

$6T
Global chemical industry
400M
Tons of chemicals/year
5-8%
Of global CO2 emissions
$18B+
Synbio market (2025)
The Problem

Petrochemistry is a climate catastrophe.
Biology is the answer -- if we can program it.

The $6 trillion global chemical industry produces 400 million tons of chemicals annually from petroleum. This process generates 5-8% of global CO2 emissions, consumes 10% of all fossil fuels, and creates toxic waste at massive scale.

Biology already manufactures chemicals at room temperature with zero toxic waste. A single yeast cell runs thousands of reactions with atomic precision no chemical plant can match. But reprogramming cells to produce specific target molecules takes 5-10 years and $50-200M per product. The design-build-test-learn cycle is too slow.

The bottleneck is design. There are 1030 possible pathway configurations for any target molecule. Current approaches test hundreds of variants over years. AI changes this equation entirely.

5-10 years
Average time to engineer a new biomanufactured product
$50-200M
Cost per biomanufactured product development
~70%
Lab-validated strains that fail at production scale
Our Solution

From target molecule to organism blueprint.
In seconds, not years.

GenesisEngine is the AI platform that designs complete biomanufacturing pathways. Input a target molecule. Get a production-ready organism blueprint with enzyme candidates, thermodynamic analysis, host optimization, and genetic construct design.

LAYER 01

Pathway Architect

Given a target molecule, our AI searches 22,000+ enzymatic reactions (KEGG, MetaCyc) and designs novel enzymes (RFdiffusion2) to assemble a complete biosynthetic pathway. Each pathway is scored on thermodynamic feasibility, cofactor balance, and predicted yield.

LAYER 02

Host Optimizer

The designed pathway is computationally inserted into the optimal host organism (E. coli, yeast, C. necator for CO2 fixation). Genome-scale metabolic models predict flux distribution and optimize the genetic background for maximum production.

LAYER 03

Production Simulator

The optimized strain is simulated at industrial scale, predicting titer, rate, and yield in production bioreactors. Know what will work at 10,000L before touching a pipette.

10,000x faster pathway search
AI-designed novel enzymes
22,000+ reactions database
Production-scale prediction
Market Opportunity

The $400B biomanufacturing revolution

$400B+
TAM by 2040
Biomanufacturing market (McKinsey)
$18B+
SAM (2025)
Synthetic biology tools and platforms
18-26%
CAGR
Synthetic biology market growth rate

$17.3B in synbio VC funding (2025)

Triple the 2022 level. Investors are pouring capital into the bioeconomy.

$15B US Biotechnology Initiative

Federal commitment to domestic biomanufacturing capacity build-out.

Carbon mandates accelerating

Corporate ESG commitments driving demand for bio-based chemical alternatives.

AI enzyme design breakthrough

RFdiffusion2 (Dec 2025) generates production-grade enzymes from text prompts.

Why Now

The AI inflection point for biology

Three convergent breakthroughs in the last 18 months make GenesisEngine possible for the first time in history. The enzyme design tools, biofoundry automation, and biological foundation models are all reaching maturity simultaneously.

Enzyme Design

RFdiffusion2

Dec 2025 -- Institute for Protein Design

Generates novel enzymes with catalytic proficiency comparable to natural enzymes. Prior methods produced only trace-level activity. This is a 100x improvement in AI enzyme design.

Automation

Self-Driving Biofoundries

BioAutomata -- 2025

Fully automated design-build-test-learn cycles. Optimizes metabolic pathways while testing less than 1% of the variant space. Removes human from the loop after initial query.

Simulation

AI Virtual Cells

Multi-omics foundation models

Computational models simulating entire cellular systems. Predict metabolic flux from pathway design. Enable system-level reasoning about how engineered pathways interact with host metabolism.

Technology Roadmap

Now
Pathway search + scoring
Retrosynthetic pathway design using KEGG/MetaCyc/BRENDA with AI-optimized scoring
6 mo
AI enzyme integration
RFdiffusion2 integration for novel enzyme design within pathways
12 mo
Host optimization
Genome-scale metabolic modeling for strain engineering
24 mo
Production simulation
Industrial-scale fermentation prediction from genotype
5 yr
Autonomous organism design
Full target-to-production pipeline without human intervention
Team

Built by an AI-native founder

AP

Avi Pilcer

Founder and CEO

15+ years in AI/ML. Former Head of AI Innovation at Motorola Solutions. Computational biology research at Bar-Ilan University (BINA). Founder of Ultra Deep Tech (AI safety lab). Background spanning deep reinforcement learning, cybersecurity AI, and biomathematics. M.Sc. Industrial Engineering, B.Sc. Mathematics and Physics.

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Why AI-native matters

Traditional biotech startups spend $10-50M before writing a line of code -- on lab space, equipment, and wet lab personnel. GenesisEngine is computation-first. AI designs the pathways. Biofoundry partners validate them. This capital-efficient model means we can iterate 100x faster than lab-based competitors and reach product-market fit with software economics.

Seeking Domain Advisors

Metabolic engineering, synthetic biology, biomanufacturing scale-up, bioprocess engineering

Building a Founding Team

ML engineers, metabolic engineers, synbio researchers. Get in touch

Roadmap

The path from design tool to biocompiler

1
Months 1-3

Traction MVP launch + first users

Pathway designer live. First 500 researchers on the platform.

2
Months 4-6

Pre-seed fundraise + team building

Raise $1.5M. Hire founding ML and synbio engineers.

3
Months 7-12

AI enzyme integration + enterprise

RFdiffusion2 integration. Enterprise API. First biofoundry validations.

4
Year 2

Seed raise + research milestones

Raise $5M. 10+ validated pathways. First commercial pathway design.

5
Year 3+

Series A + production simulation

First AI-designed organism in commercial bioproduction.

Early Access

Be first to design pathways with AI

GenesisEngine is in development. Join the waitlist to get early access when we launch. Researchers and biofoundry operators get priority.

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