Trusted chemistry expertise for high-stakes R&D.
NewChem provides trusted chemistry expertise for high-stakes research and development.
NewChem Database is in early alpha. Email contact@newchem.ca to join.
NewChem is both a consulting studio and an education platform grounded in practical chemistry work. The NewChem Database is the flagship tool, but the broader mission is to help teams and researchers make reliable, defensible decisions with chemistry data.
Consulting engagements deliver custom analysis and workflow design. Educational content documents hard-won lessons and makes rigorous chemistry more accessible.
Frontier model training support and chemistry prompt engineering.
Frontier model training + prompt engineering
Led organic chemistry prompt engineering for Scale AI's Human Frontier Collective, producing 600+ PhD-level prompts, reviewing hundreds more, and auditing 10,000+ prompts for quality across SFT, RLHF, multimodal, and rubric-driven evaluation work.
Synthetic consulting
Enabled synthesis to the multi-kilo stage, collaborating with four CROs and delivering viable synthetic routes in every engagement.
Process development
Enabled the synthesis of key materials at >10 kg scale.
That Chemist’s educational work emphasizes clear explanations, honest data, and careful reasoning. NewChem supports that effort with technical content, public tools, and transparent documentation, including the That Chemist YouTube channel.
SMILES ↔ InChI + naming
Convert between formats, track synonyms, and keep consistent identifiers.
Structure search + tags
Fast substructure queries with flexible tagging and metadata notes.
Rarity metrics
Heuristics that surface how common a molecule is across datasets.
Structure search + tags
Fast substructure queries with flexible tagging and metadata notes.
NewChem engagements are scoped to deliver clarity fast. Typical work includes synthetic route audits, joint consulting efforts, and ongoing partnerships on strategic projects.
Typical engagements
- Model training data audits and cleanup
- Cheminformatics workflow design
- Domain translation for AI teams
- Custom tooling for electrochemistry and biotech
Selected projects
Anonymized collaborations in model training, dataset curation, and tooling for energy systems.
Upcoming features
Reaction workflows, richer metadata, and deeper integration with structure extraction tools.
Open tooling
More local-first utilities that plug into the NewChem ecosystem.
NewChem is built by That Chemist, a YouTube creator focused on real chemistry, data quality, and the practical engineering of scientific tools. The mission is to build durable, open infrastructure that makes chemistry workflows more honest and more useful.