Insight
Catalyst: AI Workflow Accelerator
From product goal to AI-guided experimental decisions in minutes
What is it?
Catalyst accelerates materials and chemicals AI workflows by helping your team use natural language to query knowledge, analyze candidates, create AI workflows, and improve models with their domain expertise. Catalyst agents are built into the Citrine Platform where your data, models, search spaces, and candidate experiments already live.
Catalyst agents enable product development teams to:
- Query data, uploaded reports, and peer-reviewed scientific papers
- Analyze suggested experiments and predicted materials
- Turn product goals into AI workflows
- Edit AI models with domain knowledge
How does Catalyst help your team?
It reduces the time from question to action
Query knowledge, configure workflows, and evaluate candidates within one platform. Catalyst helps teams move from a product question to practical next steps faster.
It lowers the barrier to broader AI adoption
Start with the desired outcome rather than a blank project. Catalyst creates a starting point that users can inspect and refine, reducing training requirements and helping more scientists use AI consistently.
It supports cross-team learning
Reuse knowledge from previous data, reports, and scientific literature. Capture domain expertise in models so it can inform future projects and support other teams.
It helps product experts choose the next experiment
Compare candidates, understand tradeoffs, and inspect the rationale behind recommendations before deciding which experiment to run next.
Answer customer’s product questions
Stay safe
Summarize reports
How is this different from other AI co-pilots?
Private and secure
Our security standards apply to your Catalyst queries, just like any other data you trust us with.
Citrine does not train LLMs using your data or conversations.
Scientific sensibilities
- It supports expert judgment rather than replacing it
- It provides references where source material is used
- It helps users inspect reasoning and recommendations
- It allows scientists to review, refine, and guide workflows
- It keeps product experts in control of the final decision
What it means for product development teams
For Product Experts
Start with the product goal. Query existing knowledge, analyze predicted materials, review the AI workflow, and choose the next experiment.
For Application Engineers
Find up-to-date information to answer customer’s questions quickly and respond to RFPs instantly in plain language.
For R&D Managers
Help more team members use AI consistently, reduce repeated work, and move from project kickoff to experimental action faster.
For Business Leaders
Increase product development productivity and respond faster to customer needs, supply constraints, regulatory pressure, and changing market requirements.
How it works
Catalyst is integrated throughout the Citrine Platform, ready to support users as questions, goals, and new evidence emerge.
Using a large language model, we convert your questions into properly formatted search phrases and commands which then act on the your instance of the Citrine Platform to get results.
