Adaptyv Bio
A lab that physically builds and tests designed proteins, and runs public competitions that have become an informal benchmark for protein design.
Designing a protein on a computer is one thing. Finding out whether it actually works is another, and that requires a wet lab, where the sequence is turned into a real molecule and measured. Adaptyv Bio does exactly that as a service, which makes it one of the few neutral places where a claim about AI-designed proteins can be checked rather than asserted.
The company also runs open design competitions against specific protein targets, publishing every entry and its measured result. Because the outcomes are public, those competitions have quietly become a shared benchmark for the field. When Anthropic reported in August 2026 that Claude had designed working binders against 14 of 15 targets, Adaptyv Bio and Twist Bioscience were the labs that made and tested the designs, and the competition results were the yardstick the hit rates were compared against.