Who do we work with?

Major brands

Well-established brands looking for ways to innovate for new products or existing. Whether you want to validate new claims, create a new benefit or create a new offering, we can help.

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Private brands

Looking to offer competitive products, create or validate product claims, or create new offerings.

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Investors

Looking for the next unicorn, seeing the value in innovation and sustainability powered by AI and expert scientists.

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Example routes to engagement

We are purposefully flexible and agile and adapt our engagements for the needs of our clients. Below are some examples.

Licence

Looking to utilize our products for your own use? We can do that.

Production

Looking to outsource the production process? We can help.

Joint Venture

Looking to partner with us and innovate together? We can do that too.

We have a passion for science, sustainability, technology and wellness. If this sounds like a fit to you we’d love to explore what working together would look like. Let’s talk!

Discover

Discover new ingredients and formulations using our AI platform

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Test

Test and optimize products bespoke cellular assays for different phenotypes

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Create

Create and licence new sustainable products for your brand

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CLIENT

Leading fortune 500 skincare brand

PROBLEM
Looking for new ingredients and formulation for its new product range

SOLUTION
We identified many novel combinations of ingredients using our in-sillico discovery platform, HexisPro.X. We tested and validated skincare benefits in complex assays and developed new scientific data for sales, marketing and claim substantiation.

CLIENT

High value
client

PROBLEM
Identify suitable ‘green’ alternatives that were compatible with their existing personal care formulations

SOLUTION
We assessed over 30,000 materials using our HexisPro.X platform and selected the best five formulations tested and validated in bioassays to address the formulation challenge. Our effective solution provided a new basis for new patent applications for our client.

CLIENT

Aspirational brand developer

PROBLEM
Assessment of natural plant-based ingredients' safety and potential therapeutic benefits

SOLUTION
We identified the critical ingredient components of the plant-based extract and mapped out their beneficial activity using our in-sillico platform, HexisPro.X. Our solution enables the brand to identify new claims and benefits for these nutraceutical products and develop a sound basis for clinical trials.

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