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You can be new to designing with Bacterial Cellulose (BC) or an expert! In either case, the agents will help you in different ways to evaluate your ideas, run experiments to improve designs, or simply test your financial assumptions.

Each goal below maps to a set of scenarios you can explore with the agents. These are meant to give you some structure. Click any question to open it directly in the chat and continue chatting!

Goal 1

Evaluate and improve your BC material

Understand what your material can and cannot do, then find targeted ways to improve it.

@designer Analyzes images and physical properties of your BC samples to identify structural issues and improvement opportunities.
This sample looks translucent and slightly yellow — is that normal for SCOBY-derived BC, or a sign of contamination? How do I improve tensile strength of my BC pellicles?

Don't have a BC sample yet? Download the test images to try the image analysis feature — upload one to the chat and ask @designer to analyze it.

@farmer Pulls production records to correlate batch conditions with material quality outcomes.
Which of my batches produced the thickest pellicle, and what conditions were used? Which variables explain variation in yield the best?
@cfo Frames material performance in terms of quality grading and whether improvements justify added input costs.
What is driving profit/kg? What should I change to improve this? How does raising the fashion price to $28/kg affect NPV?
Goal 2

Optimize your cultivation process

Find the conditions that consistently produce more material, faster, with less waste.

@designer Interprets visual cues from cultivation images — pellicle uniformity, surface contamination, thickness distribution — to flag process problems.
My pellicle has a rough, uneven surface on one side — could that be caused by air bubbles during static culture? What drying methods preserve material properties best?
@farmer Mines your production logs to surface patterns in yield, contamination rate, and growth cycle length.
What was our best recipe for yield in 2024? Which treatment had the lowest contamination rate?
@cfo Calculates the cost impact of process changes so you can prioritize optimizations by economic return.
Run a scenario with contamination loss reduced to 4%. Compare air dry vs press dry drying methods.
Goal 3

Prepare for scale-up

Stress-test your process before committing to larger vessels, more equipment, or a new facility.

@designer Evaluates whether your current material properties are consistent and reproducible enough to survive a scale-up transition.
What does Material Readiness level MR-2 require? What material tests should I run now to create a quality benchmark before I scale?
@farmer Identifies which production variables are most volatile in your current logs, so you can stabilize them before scaling.
Show yield trends over time Compare recipe performance between 2024 and 2025
@cfo Models how unit economics shift at larger volumes and flags the break-even point for capital investment.
What happens if I increase capacity to 100 tonnes? What would ROI look like at 90% capacity utilization?
Goal 4

Build a business case

Translate your material, process, and production data into a financial story that supports investment or commercialization decisions.

@designer Provides material specifications and property comparisons that support claims about your product's performance relative to alternatives.
What quantitative material properties should I include in a spec sheet to position BC as a leather alternative? What are the key quality criteria for fashion applications?
@farmer Summarizes historical production performance — yields, batch success rate, input efficiency — as evidence of operational reliability.
What is the average yield across all runs? What are the top 3 runs by yield?
@cfo Builds the full techno-economic model: COGS, margin projections, NPV, and payback period under different market scenarios.
What is the scenario using all defaults? What is the minimum sellable yield needed to break even?
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