Software · consulting · scientific education

Chemistry,
built for the work.

NewChem™ is Dr. Josiah Newton's platform for open chemistry software, high-stakes scientific consulting, and public education.

Dr. Josiah Newton, organic chemist and founder of NewChem™.
Dr. Josiah NewtonOrganic chemist · founder · That Chemist

Open softwaretools chemists can own

AI + R&Dchemistry where accuracy matters

Public workadvanced chemistry made legible

Independentbuilt from Vancouver, used anywhere

Experience behind NewChem™Chemistry built across software, AI, and scientific education.

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01 / NEWCHEM™

One name for the work

Chemistry in software, industry, and public.

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Open software

NewChem™ builds practical scientific tools that keep the chemist in control of the data and the decision.

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Chemistry + AI

NewChem™ works with AI and R&D teams when chemical judgment, data quality, and defensible reasoning are the hard part.

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Scientific education

Through That Chemist and sponsored public work, difficult chemistry is explained without pretending it is simple.

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02 / FLAGSHIP SOFTWARE

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A local chemistry workspace that belongs to you.

Ten connected desktop tools—and a packaged command line for automation—bring molecule records, structure recognition, spectra, separations, calculations, 3D viewing, and reference data into one private workspace.

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03 / SELECTED WORK

Experience behind the platform

The chemistry travels across disciplines.

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Frontier AI systems

Chemistry evaluation, model-training support, expert prompt engineering, and scientific data work.

Reaxys

Organic chemistry in public

Reaxys sponsors Important Papers in Organic Synthesis, bringing consequential literature to a broad chemistry audience.

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Independent education

A large public body of work about the real practice, history, and culture of chemistry.

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04 / WORK TOGETHER

Scientific consulting

When chemistry is the hard part.

Bring NewChem™ into problems where chemical reasoning, scientific data, synthetic strategy, or the connection between experts and software needs to hold up.

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Build · learn · collaborate

Chemistry is the thread.
The work is wider.

Use the software, follow the public work, or bring NewChem™ into a difficult scientific problem.