The Foundry
MAAD Scientist Technologies is a public-benefit research foundry.
A foundry is permanent infrastructure. It doesn’t chase one product or one exit. Problems come in — colour, capture, binding, thermal management — and solutions come out. Different outputs, same platform, same physics.
The foundry exists to build the tools and methods that solve classes of problems. Not to optimise one molecule for one market. To build the engine that designs molecules for any market.
Structural colour and molecular binding are computationally identical.
Both reduce to the same calculation: how do fields interact in confined geometries? A photon hitting a nanostructure and a molecule entering a binding pocket are the same physics. One engine handles both.
That engine is called MABE — a physics-first molecular interaction scoring engine. Zero training data. Every parameter traces to fundamental physics. Full periodic table, no carbon bias, no biology bias.
30+ physics modules. 457+ automated tests. Solo-developed by the founder.
Dr. Hannah Sanford-Crane
Physics-first molecular design. A decade of experience in targeted delivery systems, surface chemistry, and orthogonal chemistry. Built MABE from scratch — every module, every test, every physics derivation.
Accepted to present at META 2026 in Dublin. Poster at the 2026 Canadian Glycomics Symposium on glycan binding prediction. WorkSafeBC grant applied with Langara College. Capstone collaborations with Northeastern University Toronto on the binding engine. Canadian patent filed for modular surface functionalisation technology — and actively looking for more university partners across Canada.
A foundry starts with whoever believes in it.
Right now, that’s family. Charlotte — a veterinarian — brings a different scientific lens when the biology matters. Henry — astrophysicist, nearly finished his PhD — reads the abstracts and checks the maths. Isaac handles the details that keep a company running: the paperwork, the accounts, the things a scientist shouldn’t have to think about but does.
It’s small. It’s honest. And it’s how every foundry starts — with the people closest to you, doing what they can, because the work matters.
The question is what happens when more people show up.
University partnerships. Open publication. Clear IP.
MAAD doesn’t build internal labs. It partners with universities — their infrastructure, their students, shared discovery. The research is real, the publication is open, and the IP pathway is clear: patent the platform broadly, publish the proof of concept openly.
Industry partners get a confidential research period, an exclusive evaluation window, and then the methodology is published. The platform stays independent. The science stays public. The applications fund the next round of discovery.
No venture capital. No equity dilution. No pressure to optimise for an exit instead of the science. Distributed patronage — many people contributing because the work matters, not one investor contributing because the return matters.
The colours on this site are the colours outside the window.
Deep evergreen, lake teal, overcast grey, autumn gold. That’s daytime BC. The dark mode — deep space, aurora, polar blue — that’s the same place at 2am in January. The fluorescent accents are the physics glowing through nature. The palette isn’t branding. It’s where the work happens.
A foundry starts with whoever shows up. Right now it’s a scientist and her family. It doesn’t have to stay that way.
Joyful science is load-bearing infrastructure. The communication isn’t outreach — it’s the funding mechanism. Every person who sees the physics and wants it to continue is part of what makes it continue.
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