From bench to business case.

We build the bridge.

Techno-economic analysis and data infrastructure for companies commercializing hard science.

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What we do

What we do.

These aren't rigid; every company is different.

Plan — smooth progress and growth.
BD — revenue early, then stability.
R&D — research now, revenue later.
Real — tortuous, with pivots.

We build your techno-economic analysis and data infrastructure. Put them to work helping you make better decisions.

You're exploring a new process chemistry or production route and need to know if it's worth pursuing before you hire a team or raise a dime. You need rigorous competitive analysis and unit economics modeling to figure out where your technology wins and where it doesn't.

You've got a working process at bench scale and a spreadsheet held together with duct tape. It works but it's not connected to the experiment data living in Google Sheets and lab notebooks. You need cleaner structure so the real data you generate connects to the right models, and helps you tell the story.

Your startup is outgrowing Google Sheets but isn't ready for a full data team. Experiment results live in five places, nothing talks to each other, and your 'pipeline' is someone copy-pasting every Monday. You need lightweight infrastructure that grows with you, not an enterprise SaaS bandaid.

You have a techno-economic model from two years ago. It's in Excel, it's fragile, hard to use, and nobody remembers what half the assumptions mean. You need to audit and rebuild it into a tool your team actually uses to inform strategic planning and experimental decisions.

You're paying for Gemini, Copilot, Claude, and three other AI tools your team has tabs open to. They're saving time on small things and creating noise on the big ones. We set up the advanced tooling that actually pays off: agent skills, CLI code tools, automated literature review, data cleanup pipelines, and synthesis workflows. The goal is figuring out where AI earns its keep, and where it's just expensive auto-complete.

How it works

1

We talk

30-minute call to understand your situation. No pitch deck, no pressure. Just figuring out if there's a fit.

2

We scope it

Clear proposal: what we'll deliver, timeline, and cost. Fixed project or retainer, your call.

3 *

We execute

Iterative delivery with regular check-ins. You're in the loop throughout, not waiting for a black-box handoff.

* Iterate repeatedly as the company and data evolve and grow

Chemical engineer and microbiologist turned data and software specialist. I've built TEA models for climate, biotech, and battery companies, published research at National Labs, and helped early-stage teams go from spreadsheets to scalable infrastructure.

Publications

Economics and global warming potential of a commercial-scale delignifying biorefinery

Klein, Scheidemantle, Hanes, Bartling, Grundl, Clark, Biddy et al.

Energy & Environmental Science, 2024

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Combining reclaimed PET with bio-based monomers enables plastics upcycling

Rorrer, Nicholson, Carpenter, Biddy, Grundl, Beckham

Joule, 2019

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Innovative chemicals and materials from bacterial aromatic catabolic pathways

Johnson, Salvachúa, Rorrer, Black, Vardon, St John, Cleveland et al.

Joule, 2019

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Process design and economics for the conversion of lignocellulosic biomass to hydrocarbon fuels and coproducts

Davis, Grundl, Tao, Biddy, Tan, Beckham, Humbird, Thompson, Roni

NREL Technical Report, 2018

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Process design and economics for the production of algal biomass

Davis, Markham, Kinchin, Grundl, Tan, Humbird

NREL Technical Report, 2016

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Improving efficiency of human pluripotent stem cell differentiation platforms

Selekman, Das, Grundl, Palecek

Biotechnology and Bioengineering, 2013

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Contact

Have a project in mind? Just exploring? Either way, we'd like to hear from you.

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Based in the Bay Area. Working with teams everywhere.