Custom automation development

Robotics built around your science.

We build your custom platform, prove the science with real runs in our Sacramento lab, then deploy it to your site with your team already trained.

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Full workflows, end to end.

Our platform runs as an orchestrated system — sample retrieval, sample prep, analytical measurement, storage at temperature — all executing unattended.

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Or individual operations.

Take a single unit operation or analytical process and we will automate around it, so that it meshes into work your team already performs.

Persist AI's automation platform in the Sacramento lab, unlit

Want the science delivered, not the platform?

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Differential scanning calorimeter — instrument class integrated by Persist AI
Differential scanning calorimeter
Rheometer — instrument class integrated by Persist AI
Rheometer
Pilot freeze dryer — instrument class integrated by Persist AI
Pilot freeze dryer
Dynamic foam analyzer — instrument class integrated by Persist AI
Dynamic foam analyzer
Rotational viscometer — instrument class integrated by Persist AI
Rotational viscometer
Raman spectrometer — instrument class integrated by Persist AI
Raman spectrometer
High-performance liquid chromatograph — instrument class integrated by Persist AI
High-performance liquid chromatograph
Ultra-performance liquid chromatograph — instrument class integrated by Persist AI
Ultra-performance liquid chromatograph
Benchtop press — instrument class integrated by Persist AI
Benchtop press

THE DEPLOYMENT PATH

Proven in our lab. Then deployed to yours.

The hardest part of lab automation is not building it but the first six months of making a real workflow reliable. We can do that part here.

DESIGN + BUILD / 01

Built around your science. On our floor.

Your scientists meet ours first. We map the workflow, choose the right methods and instruments, then assemble and integrate the platform in our Sacramento lab — around your samples, requirements, and budget.

Our floor / Sacramento
PROVE / 02

Watch it work before it moves.

We harden your workflow on real runs in our lab. Your team can observe remotely or in person while live results stream online continuously — and learn the system while it is still ours to debug.

Our floor / Sacramento
THE CLOUD LAB PATH / 03aOption 1 of 2

We handle the operations.

Adopt the automation, but not the operations. Our Fee for Service offerings give you an option to run experiments on your custom platform remotely.

Our floor / Sacramento
THE DEPLOYMENT PATH / 03bOption 2 of 2

From our floor to yours. Already working.

Once the workflow is robust, the proven platform leaves Sacramento and lands at your site. Your staff is already trained, your methods are already running, and operations begin.

Your floor / your site

Designed by professionals.

Our team spans biology, chemistry, robotics, and software, working every day on formulation research using the same kind of platform we are designing for you.

  • Science — We do fee-for-service formulation projects

  • Engineering — We build our own robotics, hardware and software, in-house

  • Operations — We use our automation and AI for formulation research projects

Platform 01 / build sketch

CAPABILITY

Workflows we've automated.

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Identity, potency & purity

  • Assay, drug loading & content uniformity
  • Purity & impurity profile
  • Residual solvent

HPLC · Spectrophotometry · Raman

02

Size, count & morphology

  • Droplet & particle size, PDI — plate and cuvette
  • Particle size by imaging
  • Surface morphology & ultrastructure
  • Internal porosity & depot structure
  • Sub-visible particle count
  • Aggregation & quantitation

DLS · Brightfield · SEM · TEM · X-ray microCT · Particle counter

03

Solid state & thermal

  • Glass transition, melting & crystallinity
  • Polymer–API miscibility
  • Crystallinity screen
  • Moisture content & uptake

DSC · Polarized light microscopy · Moisture analyzer

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Flow, texture & handling

  • Viscosity
  • Rheology profile — yield stress, thixotropy
  • Injectability & syringeability
  • Foam structure & stability

Rheometer · Viscometer · Dynamic foam analyzer

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Release & dissolution

  • Solubility & dissolution
  • Supersaturation & precipitation
  • Extended in-vitro release profile
  • Burst release, 24 hours

Dissolution apparatus with HPLC

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Stability, compatibility & safety

  • pH, turbidity & solution clarity
  • Phase stability & separation
  • Freeze–thaw cycling
  • Accelerated stability hold
  • Endotoxin

Turbidimeter · SALS with HPLC · Endotoxin analysis

Across delivery systems

  • Amorphous solid dispersions
  • SEDDS & lipid systems
  • Microspheres
  • In-situ depots
  • IV & parenteral
  • Topicals & semisolids

FAQ

Frequently asked.

Still deciding whether your workflow is a candidate for automation? That conversation is free, and it is a conversation with a scientist.
We can do both depending on the needs of the workflow. We develop practical and reliable automated methods and recommend the best solution that achieves the requirements at the lowest cost — sometimes that is a compact bench solution around instruments you already own, sometimes that is a fully integrated platform with scheduling software and new analytical instruments we select with you.
Persist AI deploys your custom workflow automated platform into our Sacramento lab first. You have the option to observe all of the workflow development, data generation, and results synthesis remotely or in person. We install it at your site once your specific workflows are developed and robust — and because your staff has already worked with the platform during development, you start operations right away instead of struggling through a debugging phase.
Other automation engineering companies employ skilled engineers, but they know little about real scientific lab ops and pharmaceutical development challenges. Persist AI's team includes PhD chemistry and biology scientists and research associates who work closely with our engineers to address formulation challenges every day. Your science team communicates with our science team, so nothing is lost in translation.
You own everything specific to your workflow. Under our standard agreements, formulation IP, new workflows developed, and the data generated for your program belong to you.

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