  With the LHC close to complete its 8 TeV run, the experimental searches have
already started to probe the vast beyond-the-standard Model scenery. Providing
next-to-leading order (NLO) predictions for the major new physics discovery
channels is therefore a most pressing request to particle phenomenologists
these days. MadGolem is a new computational tool that automates NLO
calculations of generic 2->2 new physics processes in the MadGraph/Golem
framework. In this contribution we concisely describe the structure and
performance of the code, with particular focus on the generation of the
renormalized one-loop amplitudes and the automatized subtraction of infrared
and on-shell divergences. We briefly survey the many dedicated tests of all
these aspects and outline some applications to LHC phenomenology.
