Every instrument, proven ready for the discovery it is about to make.
ZdefLabs is building the instrument readiness layer for autonomous labs: tools that confirm instruments are physically ready to run, and a record that people and agents can check.
Readiness comes before orchestration.
An AI agent can schedule, pipette, read, and decide—but it cannot infer whether a physical instrument is truly in tolerance. We turn that hidden condition into live evidence.
Diagnostics, automation, and precision instruments
Designed for heterogeneous laboratory fleets
Timestamped readiness beyond paper sign-off
Readiness records over MCP and lab standards such as SiLA 2
Built at the intersection of hardware and software.
Ben Hsieh
Founder & CEO
Ben has more than two decades of experience scaling diagnostics, automation, and precision-instrument companies from early stage to commercial scale. A former Head of Automation, he bridges hardware engineering with software-driven laboratory workflows.
Freenome · CareDx · Invitae · MS, Johns Hopkins · EMBA, Quantic · MIT CTO program · Stanford project management
Two US patents pending · SLAS2027 poster · Invited speaker, Bay Area LRIG, Oct 2026
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