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Cradle: AI-Powered Protein Engineering Platform

Cradle uses AI-driven design and predictive modeling to help scientists engineer better proteins faster, from antibodies to enzymes.

Overview

Cradle is an AI-powered protein engineering platform built to help biologists and scientific teams design, optimize, and validate proteins with greater speed and precision. By combining predictive algorithms with intelligent design suggestions, Cradle accelerates the iterative cycle of protein engineering, allowing researchers to move from concept to lab-ready candidates in less time than traditional methods allow. The platform supports multi-property co-optimization, meaning teams can simultaneously balance factors like activity, binding affinity, and stability rather than optimizing one trait at a time. Cradle continuously learns from new experimental data, refining its predictive models with every round of lab feedback to improve accuracy over time. This makes it valuable across a wide range of applications, from therapeutic antibody development to enzyme engineering for industrial or agricultural use, as well as food ingredient innovation. Beyond design generation, Cradle offers robust tracking and reporting tools so teams can monitor candidate performance, review round status, and analyze results in a centralized workspace. With a strong emphasis on data privacy, Cradle ensures that proprietary sequences and experimental data remain secure and exclusively owned by the user, backed by bank-grade security protocols and an in-house wet lab used to validate model performance.

Capabilities & Features

  • Protein engineering
  • AI
  • Machine learning
  • Protein design
  • Protein optimization
  • Antibody engineering
  • Enzyme engineering
  • Peptide engineering
  • Vaccine development
  • Data analysis
  • Drug discovery

Core Features

  • AI-driven protein design and optimization
  • Multi-property co-optimization (activity, binding, stability)
  • Continuous data-driven model learning from lab results
  • Candidate generation and round tracking
  • Built-in reporting and performance analysis
  • Secure, private data management with full IP ownership

Use Cases

  • Engineering antibodies for improved binding affinity and developability
  • Accelerating enzyme optimization for catalytic conversions
  • Enhancing peptide stability and efficacy
  • Stabilizing antigens for vaccine development pipelines
  • Designing novel proteins for therapeutics, agriculture, and food ingredients

Best For

  • Biologists
  • Protein engineers
  • Scientific research teams
  • Therapeutics developers
  • Agricultural solution developers
  • Food ingredient developers

Pros

  • Speeds up protein design cycles with AI-driven candidate generation
  • Supports simultaneous optimization of multiple protein properties
  • Models improve continuously as new lab data is incorporated
  • Strong data privacy protections with full user IP ownership
  • Integrated reporting tools simplify tracking and analysis across rounds

Cons

  • Requires quality experimental data inputs to generate accurate predictions
  • Not a full-service CRO, so lab validation still depends on internal or external wet-lab resources
  • May involve a learning curve for teams new to AI-assisted design workflows
  • Pricing details are not publicly available, requiring direct inquiry

How to Use

1. Import your existing experimental data into Cradle. 2. Define your optimization goals and relevant assays. 3. Use Cradle's AI-driven design engine to generate new protein candidates. 4. Review predictive performance scores to identify top candidates. 5. Send selected sequences to the lab for experimental validation. 6. Feed new assay results back into Cradle so the model continues learning and improving with each round.

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Pricing

Cradle does not publish standard pricing tiers; interested teams need to contact the company directly to discuss plans tailored to their protein engineering needs.

Pricing data is provided as a summary. Visit the vendor website for full tier details.