In chromatography a peak is an identity. The LUMA detector's 12 VUV bands reveal molecular structure — and MAI-Alchemy's spectral library turns any GC + LUMA into a DHA analyzer and beyond, calculating the physical properties of your sample from the detector you already own.
Detailed Hydrocarbon Analysis normally means a 100-meter column and a multi-hour run. With MAI-Alchemy you get full speciation from the detector you already have — plus the physical properties of your sample. Because the real question isn't "what's in it?" — it's "what can you do with it?"
Time × wavelength × absorbance. Coelutions, shoulders and spectral shifts that hide in a 2D trace become obvious.
Multi-axis matching resolves look-alikes a single cosine score calls 99.9% identical — by physics, not pattern-matching.
Boiling point, retention index, response factor and density — computed straight from the spectrum. No calibration run.
Every wavelength, every retention time, in one Stark surface — the structure of the entire run at a glance.
A guided walk-through of the workspace: pick a standard, then explore Stark View, 3D peaks, hover-to-discover spectra, and the multi-axis matching engine.
Every vendor system is a single-technique silo — Chromeleon, Empower, OpenLAB. MAI-Alchemy is the opposite: a technique-agnostic data platform that turns any raw signal into molecular structure, and learns from every analysis it runs. It began with the hardest data I know — the VUV LUMA detector — but the architecture doesn't care what instrument the signal came from.
I'm an analytical instrumentation chemist with 33 years in the laboratory — across petrochemicals, refining, and research, for companies like Chevron, ExxonMobil, Caleb Brett, and Inspectorate. My specialty is analytical instrumentation method development: taking a measurement problem no one has cracked and building the method — on whatever instrument it takes — that finally makes it routine.
I gravitate toward being first. Most recently that's meant mastering the VUV LUMA detector — the most information-rich, and least understood, detector of its kind. But the detector was never really the point. The point was what I kept hitting in every lab, on every instrument: the software was never built for how a chemist actually thinks. We export to Excel to process the data "right." Every vendor system is a single-technique silo.
So I built MAI-Alchemy — the analytical software I always wished I had. Not another silo, but a technique-agnostic platform that turns a raw signal into molecular structure and learns from every analysis it runs. It started with LUMA because that's the hardest data I know; the vision is bigger — one place to process all analytical data, designed by a chemist, the way the chemistry demands. Medrado Analytical Innovations, LLC is where that vision lives now.
I'm one chemist with a clear picture of what analytical data processing should look like — and a working platform that proves it. What comes next is bigger than one person. I'm looking for partners to build the vision out and discover where it can go.
Your detector produces rich data most software throws away. Let's turn it into identity, properties, and structure — and give your hardware a reason to win the bench.
Bring a hard problem — a co-elution, an unknown, a method you can't make routine. Let's run your real data through Alchemy and see what it surfaces.
The platform is patent-pending and real. If you see the same future for analytical software that I do, let's talk about developing it together.
The next layer: physics-informed chemometrics that doesn't just fit a model, but explains itself in the language of the chemistry — per-family behavior, confidence you can trust, and outliers you can act on. Patent pending.
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