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For partners

We design the build. You make it.

Reef is not a foundry and not a walled garden. It's the design layer that sits above synthesis and testing, routing work out to the providers researchers already use. Every order that leaves Reef is simulated, failure-checked, and synthesis-screened before it reaches you.

Open by design

Standards, not lock-in. Benchling is VS Code; Reef is Cursor.

Reef complements the lab stack rather than replacing it. Designs are built on open formats, so a partner's customer is never trapped. Reef is the design front-end, not a data jail.

SBOL Visual 2.3 SBML export GenBank · FASTA YAML circuit DSL iGEM Registry bridge SynBioHub NCBI GenBank
Design → build → test

A closed loop that ends with an order on your queue.

A biologist describes a behavior, gets recommended parts, simulates, and sees failure flags, then orders synthesis and sequencing without leaving the platform. For partners, that's a stream of qualified, de-risked demand.

Design

Behavior to circuit

AI-recommended characterized parts, assembled into a topology and simulated.

Build

One-click synthesis

The screened sequence routes straight to a synthesis provider, with no copy-paste and no separate portal.

Test

Sequencing & characterization

Verification ordered in the same flow; results return into the design.

Learn

Data improves the next design

Characterization feeds the parts database, so every build sharpens the next prediction.

● Twist Bioscience · synthesis (live) ● Plasmidsaurus · sequencing (live) provider network expanding →
What's in it for you

Qualified demand, de-risked at the design stage.

Synthesis providers & foundries

Cleaner orders, upstream of you

New, low-friction order flow from the design tool that sits above synthesis. Every sequence is pre-screened for feasibility (GC content, repeats, homopolymers, hairpins) and biosecurity-screened at design time, so fewer orders get rejected.

CROs

Design-complete projects, not half-specs

Reef hands you simulation-validated, fully specified projects instead of vague ideas: less back-and-forth, cleaner scopes, and a structured top-of-funnel for evolution and characterization services.

Pharma & biotech

De-risked living-medicine design

Catch failure modes before spending weeks at the bench. Standards-based outputs that interoperate with existing R&D stacks, with enterprise-grade security and IND/CMC documentation on the roadmap.

The relationship

A referral and revenue-share model, built around your order flow.

Reef earns on the demand it generates, not by marking up your service. We'll work out terms that fit how you take orders. Let's talk.

Partner inquiry

Let's route builds to you.

Tell us about your service and how you take orders. We'll follow up to scope an integration and the commercial terms.

  • Synthesis, sequencing & oligo providers
  • CROs and characterization services
  • Pharma / biotech R&D and tooling

Goes straight to the founders.