It started as an
Engineering project

FyreFly began as an engineering project — a small group set on making the world of complex biotech computation a little easier, one step at a time. We made it our goal to render SOTAState of the art — the best-performing methods currently available systems as accessible and affordable as they can be: no artificial limits, full transparency. The lab started in August 2024 with small optimization software and a clever system for easy HPCHigh-performance computing — large compute clusters for heavy scientific workloads access. At a certain point we decided to combine most of it, and that became Phonos — where we are now.

Background
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Phonos

A unified platform for biotech research. Access state-of-the-art models through projects built for collaboration.

In an increasingly
Complex world

Phonos was built to cut through that complexity. We ground everything we do in four pillars.

Accessibility Cost-effectiveness Data Sovereignty Collaboration
Every model on Phonos is reachable in a few clicks — no terminal, no Docker stack, no DevOps. External compute can be plugged in just as easily through our hardware integration layer. In-house load-balancing and on-premise servers keep running costs predictable and low. You pay for results, not for idle GPU hours on someone else's cloud. All data stays on hardware we control, hosted entirely within the EU / Schengen area. Nothing leaves your jurisdiction — full stop. Project-oriented workflows keep teams organized. Shared workspaces, role-based access and real-time visibility turn isolated research into coordinated progress.

The bigger
picture

We know how important easy access to wonderful tools like AlphaFold 2 is.

We are able to provide easy access to those, but also model-to-model interconnectivity — so it's possible to generate DNA and go directly to folding, for you to get the bigger picture faster.

Mission

“It is these chromosomes… that contain in some kind of code-script the entire pattern of the individual's future development and of its functioning in the mature state,” wrote Erwin Schrödinger in 1944 — decades before anyone had actually seen the structure he was describing.

At some point, we noticed just how unnecessarily complex, opaque, and often expensive access to state-of-the-art AI and computing infrastructure had become in biotech — brilliant research slowed down not by a shortage of ideas, but by barriers that had nothing to do with the science itself.

We wanted to change that, and make the world a little simpler. Phonos exists to put the most powerful molecular AI models within reach of any research team — without the overhead, the opacity, or the price tag.

Abdulrahman Essam Saleh
Team 01 / 03

Abdulrahman Essam SalehM.Sc.

Role
Advisor/Research, Molecular Biotechnology
Based in
Köthen (Anhalt), Germany
Maximilian Scheinast-Peter
Team 02 / 03

Maximilian Scheinast-Peter

Role
Lead Developer, Shareholder
Based in
Köthen (Anhalt), Germany

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03 / 03

Janek Fabian FranzB.Eng.

Role
Shareholder, Accounting, Computer Vision
Based in
Köthen (Anhalt), Germany

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