FutureHouse

What is FutureHouse?

FutureHouse is a nonprofit organization focused on automating scientific discovery with AI agents, mainly in biology. It built the Crow, Falcon, Owl and Phoenix research agents, and publishes systems such as Robin.

Key capabilities of FutureHouse

• Literature search agents: Crow answers cited scholarly questions, Falcon runs deep literature reviews.
• Prior-work checks: Owl checks whether an experiment has been done before.
• Chemistry planning: Phoenix assists experimental chemistry planning.
• Robin: A multi-agent system for end-to-end scientific discovery.
• DISCO: Research project on enzyme design.
• OXtal: Research project on molecular crystal structure prediction.

How FutureHouse works

Agents were exposed through a web interface and a Python client API, so researchers could send a question or task and receive a cited, structured answer. Chaining agents lets one agent's output feed the next. The vendor says the systems originally developed under its name are now part of the Edison Scientific platform, where access and pricing are set by Edison.

Who uses FutureHouse?

Biologists, chemists and early-career researchers. FutureHouse also runs an AI-for-Science Independent Postdoctoral Fellowship that pairs early-career researchers with AI tools and academic advisors, plus training resources.

FutureHouse pricing

FutureHouse does not publish prices on its own site. The original platform was free to use, and current access to those agents and any pricing are determined by Edison Scientific.

FutureHouse alternatives

Related tools include Humata, ChatPDF, Petal, Explainpaper and Sourcely, which help read and query research papers rather than run discovery agents.