The problem
Air Environment's laboratory operations run across multiple testing workflows, sample types, and reporting requirements. Without a dedicated system, that data lives in spreadsheets — functional in isolation, but increasingly fragile as volume grows and traceability becomes a regulatory expectation.
Tracking a sample from receipt through testing to final report requires coordination across people, instruments, and documents. Done manually, it introduces gaps: missing chain-of-custody records, inconsistent result formatting, and time spent reconstructing histories that should be immediately visible.
What we're building
A purpose-built laboratory information management system (LIMS) designed around how the Air Environment team actually runs its lab — not a generic platform retrofitted to their workflows.
The system will cover the full sample lifecycle: intake and registration, assignment to test workflows, result capture, QA review, and report generation. Every step is logged. Every action is attributed. The audit trail is the point.
Where we are
This engagement is in early-stage development. We're currently working through requirements with the team — mapping existing workflows, identifying the data structures that need to be captured, and establishing what "correct" looks like before building to it.
The goal at this stage is to understand the edge cases thoroughly enough that the build phase doesn't surface surprises. Lab software that handles the common cases well but breaks on exceptions isn't useful.
What comes next
Once the requirements are locked, we'll move into build and iterative validation — testing each module against real lab data before it becomes part of the live workflow. The Air Environment team will be involved at each stage; a LIMS only works if the people using it trust it.
