Each year, sampling techs in the environmental and product safety related industries are tasked with collecting and quantifying over 150 million environmental, drinking water, and food safety samples. However, over 99% of samples are still collected manually, with sampling techs handwriting data and tracking chain-of-custody on paper. It’s also estimated that environmental professionals spend about 40% of their time translating data into actionable reports, graphics, and maps, which can take days or even weeks to complete, and costs companies thousands of dollars.
With this in mind, the SampleServe team sought to create a simplified system that makes digitized data collection and transcription automatic. Our networked ecosystem of mobile app products – including SampleENV for environmental sampling, SampleH2O for drinking water, SampleSWR for COVID sewer sampling, and SampleLOG for laboratories – seamlessly digitizes each step of the process, allowing completion of the mapping and imaging portion in just seconds.
The SampleServe platform was designed to support high volume, high frequency sampling and data collection for professionals in a variety of industries – including environmental, drinking water, food safety, cannabis, and others. Our networked ecosystem supports multiple revenue streams. SampleServe provides connected tools for digital chain-of-custody documentation, sample collection, sample receiving, analysis, imaging, and report production. Our patented systems connect every team member from sample to report, while also cutting costs, eliminating paper, improving efficiency, and ensuring data integrity.
The key to our technology is our sample labeling process and patented digital chain-of-custody, which provides useful functionality to every user in the data cycle. The software requires just a few hours to learn and implement, and saves users between 40-60% of time and project costs. We also offer significant cost savings through our unique pricing model, scaling the billing according to the number of samples collected rather than a flat fee. This billing model also allows our users to pass direct project costs onto their customers, rather than building software fees into overhead expenses.
The key to our technology is our sample labeling process and patented digital chain-of-custody, which provides useful functionality to every user in the data cycle. The software requires just a few hours to learn and implement, and saves users between 40-60% of time and project costs. We also offer significant cost savings through our unique pricing model, scaling the billing according to the number of samples collected rather than a flat fee. This billing model also allows our users to pass direct project costs onto their customers, rather than building software fees into overhead expenses.
SampleServe went live with the Apple iOS version of our Mobile Sampling Field App in September 2022. The Android version was introduced in late 2019, and since then the company has already seen substantial market growth.
Our SampleSWR app has experienced a surge from zero to over 287 monthly samples in just four months, and this volume is expected to continue increasing. Similarly, our SampleENV field sampling application went from zero users to averaging over 33 samples per day and growing. We also added a second laboratory client for our SampleH2O application, which is poised to double sample volume from drinking water labs in a short period of time.
At SampleServe, it’s our observation that transitioning any large marketplace from paper methods to all-digital is a difficult feat. However, as we see it, going digital is inevitable – it’s not a matter of if it will happen, it’s a matter of when and who has the tools and is best positioned to lead the way. To the best of our knowledge, ours is the only platform of its kind to service every user in the sample collection and reporting data cycle. Because of this, we believe SampleServe will become the default platform to use in the environmental and product safety sampling and reporting industries.
Looking to the future, the company plans to leverage our traction to continue growth and to develop our networked ecosystem with even more revenue streams. We will accomplish this by partnering with other high-value products and service companies that are useful to the industry and that have connections and access to large enterprise clients. Your support will be integral to expanding our sales and offerings. Thank you for investing in SampleServe on StartEngine!
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