Recursion Mindset
Our mindset is guided by an unwavering drive to challenge and disrupt the status quo. We diligently guard against complacency, conservatism, risk aversion, and contentment with the familiar. We are not here to make a few medicines. We are here to reimagine how medicines are made.
The recursion mindset is the deep belief and commitment to industrializing drug discovery through automation, algorithms, and data to deliver on our mission. This is made manifest through our founding principles and is supported by our culture and values.
Values
Our unique culture is a strategic differentiator. We push ourselves to match our behaviors to our values and to structure our work and practices to reinforce these values. We believe our culture exists in every action and is owned by every Recursionaut.
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We act boldly with integrity. →
We act boldly with integrity
We are unconstrained in our thinking, take calculated risks, and push boundaries, but never at the expense of ethics, science, or trust.
We move
with urgency because patients are waiting. →
We move with urgency
because patients are waiting.
Speed isn’t about rushing but about moving the needle every day.
We care deeply and engage directly. →
We care deeply and engage directly.
Caring means holding a deep sense of responsibility and respect - showing up, speaking honestly, and taking action.
We take ownership and accountability. →
We take ownership
and accountability.
Through ownership and
accountability, we enable trust and autonomy—leaders take
accountability for decisive action, and teams own outcomes together.
We learn actively and adapt rapidly. →
We learn actively
and adapt rapidly.
Progress comes from doing. We
experiment, test, and refine,
embracing iteration over perfection.
We are One Recursion. →
We are One Recursion
True cross-functional collaboration is about trust, clarity, humility, and impact. Through sharing we can be greater than the sum of our individual capabilities.
An industrial revolution requires a revolutionary mindset.
We are uncovering better ways to discover medicines with a set of founding principles that guide our collective work.
Optimize for the
portfolio →
Optimize for the portfolio to accelerate programs at scale. We prioritize actions and decisions that promise to enhance our entire range of programs at scale.
Challenge assumptions and convention →
Challenge assumptions and conventions to uncover fundamental truth. We challenge and validate existing knowledge to foster rigorous thinking that bolsters innovation.
Connected data across programs and time →
Build connected data over collecting data points. We are creating a comprehensive, high-dimensional data network where all the data points are interconnected.
Explore the
uncharted →
Explore the uncharted over targeting the known. We’re not about drilling into the known; we’re about exploring the unknown, understudied areas of biology.
Industrialize
to scale →
Industrialize to scale exponentially through standardization and automation. We are instituting a system that automates key procedures and decisions, leading to substantial leaps in efficiency and output.
Virtuous cycles
of atoms & bits →
Create virtuous cycles of atoms and bits. Timely, iterative feedback accelerates our learning for both programs and platforms.
Industrialize to drive our pipeline with unprecedented efficiency.
Automation, standardization, and precision allow us to move fast without compromising scientific rigor.
Build connected data to model human health and disease.
The right connections turn information into insight and insight into action.
Create virtuous cycles where models inform our next steps.
We envision a future where first, models predict and then we run experiments to confirm or inform the models.
Think in leaps - go beyond convention to drive transformational impact.
We don’t just optimize what exists —we rethink what ’s possible.
