We Built an AI Formulation Co-Pilot for the Specialty Chemicals Industry. Try It Free.

Chemenova LLC · Product Update

We Built an AI Formulation Co-Pilot for the Specialty Chemicals Industry. Try It Free.

IntelliForm is a prototype — honest, open-source, and already doing things that used to take months of lab time. We want your feedback.

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Shehan Makani, Founder & CEO · Chemenova LLC·March 2025·5 min read

The specialty chemicals industry is a $600B+ market that still reformulates largely by intuition, tribal knowledge, and expensive iteration cycles. A mid-size formulator might spend 6–18 months cycling through candidate formulations for a single product line — testing, failing, adjusting, repeating.

We think that timeline is a solvable engineering problem. Not with better lab equipment. With better intelligence.

What We Built

IntelliForm is Chemenova's AI-powered formulation intelligence platform. The prototype — available today, free, no login required — lets you:

  • Run multi-objective optimization across up to 18 chemical properties simultaneously using machine learning surrogate models
  • Score formulations on sustainability metrics aligned with ISO 14040/14044 life cycle assessment standards
  • Use natural language to describe your formulation goals — no code required
  • Generate Pareto-optimal candidate sets in seconds, not weeks
  • Explore waste scores and circular chemistry pathways for each candidate
18Property models running simultaneously
~8sOptimization runtime vs. months of trial cycles
0.83ρSustainability prediction vs. 47 LCA datasets

"This isn't a chatbot that looks up chemistry facts. IntelliForm reasons over the formulation space — it finds solutions that a human chemist would never reach in a single iteration cycle."

Why We're Releasing It as a Prototype

We're not a software company selling features. We're building a vertically integrated intelligence platform for specialty chemicals — one that connects formulation science, sustainability compliance, and manufacturing reality into a single system.

The prototype is how we build trust before we build a business model. We want chemical engineers, R&D leads, product managers, and formulators to put it through its paces — to tell us what matters, what's missing, and what would make their work meaningfully better.

Who This Is For

If you work at a specialty chemicals company — whether you're optimizing adhesives, coatings, agrochemicals, personal care, or industrial cleaners — IntelliForm was designed with your constraints in mind:

  • Pressure to reformulate for REACH, EPA, or TSCA compliance without losing performance
  • Sustainability reporting requirements that keep expanding
  • Long lead times between ideation and lab validation
  • Small R&D teams carrying the weight of large SKU portfolios

A note on scope: IntelliForm is not a replacement for your chemists. It's a force multiplier — a way to arrive at the lab with better hypotheses, fewer dead ends, and a shortlist that already accounts for cost, sustainability, and regulatory fit.

Open Source — For Now

Open source · MIT License · github.com/Cheme-Nova/IntelliForm

The current prototype is fully open source under the MIT license. Our philosophy is simple: the more people who can see, test, and stress-test what we've built, the better the platform becomes.

Premium tiers are in development — starting with guaranteed pilot batch reformulation services (backed by our manufacturing partner ChemRich), compliance monitoring subscriptions, and an enterprise API. But the free tier will remain genuinely useful, not a marketing funnel.

What's Coming Next

  • ChemSync: real-time supplier pricing and availability integration
  • Certification outcome prediction from regulatory submission history
  • Customer-specific constraint modeling (your equipment, your tolerances)
  • Guaranteed pilot batch service: if it doesn't meet certification criteria, we reformulate at no cost

Try IntelliForm — No Login Required

Built for specialty chemicals R&D. Free, open-source, and honest about what it can and can't do yet.

Open IntelliForm →

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We're a small, technical team with deep roots in chemical engineering and AI. We're building in public because we believe the industry deserves better tools — and because the best feedback comes from people actually doing the work.

If you try it, reach out. If you have a formulation challenge that would be a good test case, reach out even faster.

— Shehan Makani
Founder & CEO, Chemenova LLC
shehan@chemenova.com

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