LIMS for smaller accredited testing labs
Lab Trace is a self-serve LIMS for small ISO 17025-accredited food safety and environmental testing labs. Sample tracking, automatic Certificates of Analysis, and an immutable audit trail that holds up under an A2LA or ANAB audit. Flat-rate pricing. No per-user fees. No implementation work.
No signup. No credit card. No email.
§ I · Why we built it this way
For an accredited lab, the LIMS isn't a productivity tool. It's the system of record that has to hold up when an A2LA or ANAB auditor sits down with your data. Lab Trace is built around that single fact. Sample tracking, results entry, CoA generation — they all exist to feed an audit trail that can be trusted on its own merits.
Sign up, configure your test methods and specification limits, and log a sample the same afternoon. No implementation calls. No consultants. No setup fees.
Append-only by design. No edits in place. No soft deletes. Every action — who did what, when — recorded permanently. Each entry is cryptographically linked to the one before it, which means any attempt to modify a historical record breaks the chain. Tampering is mathematically detectable, not just discouraged.
When an auditor asks for records on a sample, a method, or a date range, Lab Trace generates a complete, signed audit report in one click. No extracting from spreadsheets. No reconstructing from email threads.
§ II · What it does
Five things, done well. Everything you need, nothing you don't. The whole product is built to save you time and money.
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Every action — who did what, when — recorded permanently and exportable as a signed audit report on demand. Compatible with 21 CFR Part 11 principles and the data integrity expectations of A2LA and ANAB auditors.
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Every sample gets a unique ID at intake. Client, sample type, tests ordered, turnaround deadline, and current status — all visible on a single dashboard. Status moves from received to in testing to results pending to complete to released, with every transition logged.
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Define your test methods and specification limits once, with simple overrides per client or per test when a job calls for it. Results entered against a method get pass/fail automatically. Out-of-spec results are flagged and require a documented disposition before they can be released.
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Professional CoA PDFs generated from the same structured data every time. Lab name, accreditation number, test methods, specs, results, units, electronic signatures. Same format, same quality, no manual layout work.
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Analysts enter results. Lab directors approve and release. Clients see only their own samples. Admins manage configuration. Set once, enforced everywhere.
§ III · Fit
Lab Trace is for small ISO 17025-accredited contract testing labs in the US — the labs where the director is also the QA officer, the lead analyst, and the IT department. You don't have a procurement team. You don't have a consultant on retainer. You need software that respects your time and your budget, that you can stand up alone, and that holds up under an A2LA or ANAB audit.
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§ IV · Compliance
ISO 17025 and 21 CFR Part 11 don't require certified software. They require records that hold up. Lab Trace is designed around what A2LA and ANAB auditors actually check during assessments: complete records, immutable audit trails, traceability from sample to method to result, electronic signatures attributable to a specific individual, and data integrity controls that prevent silent modification. Every action in the system is logged. There is no path that loses data.
§ V · Pricing
Try Lab Trace free first — no email, no credit card, no commitment. When you're ready to use it for real samples:
179/month
§ VI · Begin
Click below and Lab Trace creates a real lab for you on the spot — no signup, no email, no credit card. It opens loaded with sample data so you can walk through real workflows: log a sample, enter results, generate a Certificate of Analysis, look at the audit trail. Remove the sample data in one step when you're ready to start working with your own.
Your lab is yours from the first click. Come back to it whenever you want. When you're ready to keep it, claim the lab with your email and start the $179/month plan. Until then, no payment required.
A real lab. No signup. No card.