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Here, we describe an end-to-end platform that combines semi-automated sample preparation, rapid LC-MS\/MS, and AI agent-based data analysis to enable scalable proteomic screening. In a screen of 172 compounds in HepG2 cells, we generated 1,232 proteomes with more than 8,700 quantified proteins in approximately three weeks. Agentic AI reduced data analysis and interpretation time to less than one day while translating proteomic measurements into structured mechanism-oriented summaries and experimentally testable hypotheses. Guided by this framework, we validated: (1) a cholesterol-lowering effect of methylene blue\n                  <jats:italic>in vitro<\/jats:italic>\n                  and (2) an association between loratadine exposure and increased circulating iron in matched electronic health record analyses. 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