
A new substrate
The mission
For three centuries we wrote equations to describe reality. They were beautiful, and they were incomplete — solvable only for the simplest systems. Real molecules, real cells, real weather, real minds remained out of reach.
That ends now. The Shape is building foundation models that don't approximate reality — they compute it. Models that learn the underlying code of physics from data and run it forward. Peptide-1 is the first crack.
The endgame is the substrate that governs reality itself, in software. A tiny pocket of the universe — available through an API.

The models
Every model is designed, trained, and served by The Shape. We start with biology — where physics becomes life — and expand outward.
De novo peptide design & property prediction
Peptide-1 generates and evaluates peptide sequences for binding affinity, stability, and therapeutic potential. Trained on curated protein-peptide interaction data.
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Structure, chemistry, materials, language, vision, video.
The API
Authenticate once. Send JSON. Get JSON back. The same pattern works for every model on The Shape — today and forever.
curl https://jointheshape.com/api/v1/models/peptide-1/predict \
-H "Authorization: Bearer $SHAPE_API_KEY" \
-H "Content-Type: application/json" \
-d '{
"sequence": "MKWVTFISLLFLFSSAYS",
"task": "predict_binding",
"target": "GLP1R"
}'
# => { "binding_affinity_kcal_mol": -8.7, "stability_score": 0.82, ... }