Infinite Expansion · Laboratories

Set up a batch once. The platform orders the reagents and books the instruments.

Run the lab, not the spreadsheet.

Batch templates know their steps, instruments and reagents. Create a batch from one and the platform reserves what's on the shelf, orders the rest at the best price, and books every instrument in the right order, waits included. The study's project knows the moment a batch is done.

Built for testing, QC and contract labs.

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Lab dashboard with the batch pipeline from Draft to In Analysis, at-risk batches, a needs-action list and this week's instrument bookings
The lab at a glance: pipeline, at-risk batches and what needs action.

Stability studies, release testing, incoming-material checks, method validation. The Laboratory pack sets the platform up for a lab in one click: jobs become Batches, schedulable resources become Instruments, people become Analysts and skills become Methods. Stages read Received → Reagents Ordered → Ready to Test → Scheduled → In Analysis → Reported.

One Stability Study

A batch template, set up once.

Follow a fictional testing lab running stability pulls for a fictional pharmaceutical client.

  1. The lab at a glance. The Lab dashboard shows the pipeline from Received to Reported, the batches at risk (due soon, reagents not in), what needs action, and the week's instrument bookings.
  2. Set up the template once. “Stability pull — HPLC assay” lists its steps in order: weigh on any balance, oven-dry, wait 24 hours, run the HPLC assay on the Agilent (mornings only), re-run the bracketing standards on the same Agilent, then an FTIR identity check. It also lists the reagents and consumables each batch uses.
Batch template Stability pull HPLC assay with five instrument steps, durations, a one-day wait, a morning time window, scheduling instructions and the items each batch uses
Steps, instruments, waits, time windows and reagents, set up once.
  1. Batches made from it. Every time point becomes a batch with its own number, stage and reagent readiness, and each batch says where it stands and what happens next.
Batches list filtered to stability pulls, with scheduled date, stage, status and item readiness for each batch
Every batch, its stage and how many of its items are ready.
Batch page with a Ready: Complete Batch banner, workflow progress from created to scheduled, and details, materials and schedule cards
Each batch says where it stands and what happens next.

Reagents and Purchasing

From the shelf first, then ordered at the best price.

  1. Stock on hand is reserved to the batch first. Smart Ordering buys only what's still missing. It compares suppliers on price, pack size and lead time, and shows an order-by date: the date the batch needs it, minus the supplier's lead time.
  • Purchase orders and partial receiving
  • A supplier's price rise is flagged against the catalog price for review
Smart Ordering with an allocate-from-stock section and reagent order recommendations showing suppliers, pack sizes, costs and order-by dates, one flagged late
Allocate from the shelf first; buy the rest by its order-by date.
Stock record for a syringe filter with lot number, expiry date, condition In Date and its current allocations to batches

5. Reagent lots and expiry

Every stock record carries its lot number, expiry date and condition, and shows which batches it's reserved for. Stock that's expiring or expired comes to you as a daily email digest.

Reserved Stock Review listing reagents held by a batch waiting on a purchase order, with suggestions to move each to a batch that needs it now

6. Stock that's sitting idle

Reserved Stock Review finds reagents held for batches that can't use them soon, such as a batch on hold or waiting on a late order, and offers to move them to a batch that needs them now.

Price changes don't slip through

When a receipt or a vendor bill comes in more than 2% away from the supplier's catalog price, it's flagged for someone to accept or dismiss.

Price Variances list with an open variance on pipette tips: catalog price $9.40, paid $10.40, with Accept and Dismiss buttons
A supplier charged more than the catalog price, flagged for review.

Instrument Scheduling

Book every instrument in one go, waits included.

Auto-schedule proposal: balance, cure oven then a one-day wait, two HPLC slots on the same Agilent, then FTIR, with a Book all 5 button
The whole run proposed in order. You confirm first.
  1. Auto-schedule proposes the whole run: the balance, then the oven, the 24-hour wait, both HPLC slots on the same Agilent and the FTIR. Each step goes in the earliest free slot that respects instrument hours, downtime and the time window. Nothing is booked until you confirm.

You can also type rules in plain English (“start next Tuesday, avoid the Agilent”) and AI turns them into scheduling rules you can check before booking.

The plain-English rules need AI switched on for your install. Start date, holidays and the template's steps work without it.

  1. The lab's week. The Weekly Lab Schedule shows every instrument's bookings, with batches waiting to be placed down the side. Each instrument has its hours, downtime and upcoming work.
Weekly Lab Schedule grid with instruments down the side, batch bookings per day and a list of batches waiting to be placed
The lab's week, instrument by instrument.
Instrument page for an Agilent 1260 HPLC with standing analysts, instrument hours, downtime and upcoming assignments
Each instrument: hours, downtime and upcoming work.

At the Bench

Analysts mark each step done.

  1. On the batch, each instrument booking has Start and Done, and a timer for analyst time. Run time comes from analysts pressing Start and Done, not from the instrument's software.
Batch instrument assignments: balance and oven completed, two Agilent HPLC slots and FTIR planned, each with Start, Instrument done and Start timer buttons
The batch's instrument bookings, with Start and Done for each step.

Studies

The study knows when a batch is done.

  1. Each time point is a task linked to its batch. When the batch completes, the task moves to Review on its own, ready to create the next time point's batch from the same template.
Stability Study project with time-point tasks on a Kanban board in To Do, In Progress and Review, each linked to a batch
The study's time points are tasks linked to batches.

Everything in the Laboratory Pack

Batches, instruments, reagents and studies, already linked.

Batches and studies

  • Batch templates with steps, instruments or methods, durations, waits and time windows; the same instrument can be used twice in one batch
  • Stages follow reagent readiness and scheduling on their own
  • Change orders, holds and cancellation, all recorded in each batch's history
  • Projects with tasks linked to batches, and the next batch created from a task

Instruments

  • Methods, owners, standing analysts, instrument hours and downtime
  • Fields for Make / Model, Serial Number, Last Calibration, Calibration Due, Lab Section and Accreditation
  • Reminder tasks ahead of the dates you enter: calibration due (14 days), accreditation expiry (30 days), proficiency test due (14 days) and batch turnaround (1 day)
  • Weekly schedule, day board, calendar and swimlane views

This is lab operations: batches, instruments, reagents, scheduling and purchasing. Test results, specifications and certificates of analysis stay in the systems you keep them in today.

See it with your own methods.

We'll take one batch from its template to booked instruments and ordered reagents, then show you the rest of the platform it's built into.

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