Bioengineering
Better:

Bioingredients made with frontier AI

We're twig.

We’re a bioengineering company. And we’re changing the future of chemicals and ingredients.

Pick up any bottle, tube, or tub and have a squint at the small print. Whether it’s your medication or moisturiser, there you’ll find the biggest little ingredients that make the world go round.

But right now, the “secret ingredients” powering our everyday products are built on a fragile foundation. For decades, the industry has accepted the status quo of extractive fossil fuels and hyper-intensive farming.

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It leaves producers vulnerable to extreme supply chain volatility, unpredictable price swings, and a lack of innovation.

We believe our world deserves better. By moving away from extractive methods and unlocking precision biomanufacturing, we can bring stability and innovation back to global supply chains.

twig makes this possible. Combining our frontier AI with our automated wet-lab, we’ve closed the loop and can create biofermented ingredients in as little as eight weeks.

Delivering products: our pipeline and partners

A platform is only as good as the products it delivers. We aren’t just building technology; we’re building a robust pipeline of ingredients designed to provide a stable, biofermented supply for global brands.

We work with ingredients, chemicals and consumer goods companies to solve their supply chain challenges.

An example product in development is a novel active ingredient for suncare.

Right now, the suncare market is grappling with serious regulatory pressures and crying out for effective, skin-friendly, and environmentally stable ingredients. twig is building the solution and working with global partners to bring it to market.

Whether seeking specialist fatty acids, unique flavours, fragrances, improved titres from an existing microbe, or something else, talk to us to see how our AI can unlock your biofermentation needs.

Building an AI defined, bioengineered future

Closing the loop on biomanufacturing

At twig, we’re using biology to train our AI.

Introducing twig:tech, our overarching dry-lab and wet-lab tech stack. Built to identify and deliver scalable, affordable bioproducts in months, not years.

bio:drive

Our ‘dry lab’ houses the most sophisticated AI stack in the industry:

Hazel: Our multi-agent research framework. Hazel digs deep to provide comprehensive reports on potential targets, covering market factors, scientific literature, patents, and biofeasibility. She ensures we only pursue the most commercially viable and scientifically sound opportunities. And you can access it today at https://www.askhazel.bio
CANOPY: Our family of multi-modal biological foundation models. CANOPY turns complex, proprietary biological data into actionable design decisions. It models biological systems from DNA to bioprocess, enabling us to design and optimise the perfect microbial strains at scale.

grow:bot

Our ‘wet lab’. If bio:drive is the thinker, then grow:bot is the doer. We have closed the loop by automating 100% of our experiments, generating standardised, low-cost-to-capture, AI-ready data.

Every single experiment we run makes our models smarter. This isn’t just about speed; it’s about creating a compounding intelligence. Every data point collected by grow:bot flows straight back into bio:drive. This “biological training” allows us to arrive at production-ready strains in months, not years.

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Our investors

We’re proud to have a fantastic group of impactful and committed investors as part of our journey to build our products. If you’re an investor that wants to create ingredients that don’t cost the earth then get in touch.