The AI Scientist
for Computational Physics

Describe your scientific objective in plain language. Physics-aware agents plan, code, execute, validate, and document the entire simulation workflow—producing traceable, scientifically valid results.

Built by computational physicists Validated on real photonics workloads Starting with FDTD photonics
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The problem

Researchers spend most of their time not doing science

Computational workflows are fragmented, manual, and expertise-dependent. The day disappears into work that's required but isn't science — leaving the actual exploration of the solution space underserved.

Optimization landscape

Numerics & meshing

Mesh definition, periodicity, absorbers, and boundary conditions — tuned by hand, run after run.

Code & performance

Parallelism, solver wiring, and optimization eat days that should be spent on the result.

Trial & error

Configure, fail, fix, repeat — until something finally looks plausible.

The cost: slow cycles mean wasted compute, longer time-to-result, and a solution space you never fully explore.

Why generic AI isn't enough

The hard part isn't writing the simulation — it's trusting it

A coding agent helps write the code. It can't tell you whether the result is physical, whether the numerics converged, or whether it simulated the system you actually described.

Generic AI assistants — Claude, ChatGPT, Gemini

Silent failures

AI-generated simulations often run, but produce wrong results. Physical and numerical errors are hidden, making them difficult to detect — and potentially more harmful than outright failures.

Optimization without physics understanding

Simulation optimization requires physics and numerical understanding. Current AI struggles with the complex trade-offs between performance, accuracy, and scientific validity.

How it works

You set the goal. The AI runs the science.

No setup or integration. Describe the goal and constraints; the rest is autonomous and fully documented — from planning to a validated, traceable result.

Painted Dog Labs platform
1

Define your goal

In natural language. The AI asks physics-aware questions and explains the reasoning behind each.

2

Autonomous run

Configures geometry, materials, mesh, and boundaries; codes, runs, validates, and auto-iterates to convergence.

3

Review results

A full report with assumptions, discrepancies, generated code, and simulations — all traceable.

4

Adapt within context

Change geometry, materials, or parameters — the system already has the right context to get the job done.

The technology
Specialized physics agentsbuilt on frontier AI models
Trained on scientific datalarge-scale physics datasets
Deterministic validationhundreds of physics checks per run
The impact

From weeks of manual work to hours of compute

What takes a researcher three-plus weeks of setup, debugging, and validation, the system delivers autonomously — with the report to prove it.

3 wks → hrs
From a validated result in weeks to hours of compute
~15×
Faster runtime on optimized vs. naive implementations
~70%
Lower compute costs — reduce wasted runs and inefficient implementations
Coming soon · Early access

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