Shehan Makani

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. SM 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 ...

Chemenova LLC: AI‑Enabled Sustainable Chemical Innovation Chemenova LLC (founded 2025, Newark NJ) is an AI-driven green chemistry startup focused on specialty chemicals and sustainable processes .   By combining machine‑learning formulation engines with custom manufacturing, Chemenova builds platforms that accelerate R&D and supply‑chain workflows for formulators and brands .   Its mission is to deliver “automated, sustainable chemical solutions” for SMEs in pharmaceuticals, personal care, agtech and advanced materials .   Uniquely, Chemenova bridges digital intelligence (AI tools) with real‑world production: for example its IntelliForm™ software can propose eco‑friendly blends and then send validated recipes to partnered pilot plants for scale‑up .   In short, Chemenova aims to let chemists “focus on innovation” while AI and data handle the heavy lifting of design, sourcing, and manufacturing . Industry Context: AI and Sustainability Driving 2...