External Testing on the Uncountable Portal
Sending a sample to an external lab should not break the data trail. Yet outsourced testing often creates an avoidable gap between the original request, the external result, and the specification or investigation that depends on it.
R&D and QC teams commonly manage external testing through emails, attachments, manually maintained trackers, and re-entered certificates. This slows turnaround, creates transcription risk, and leaves external results detached from the sample, method, and product context that give them meaning.
Uncountable’s external-testing portal lets teams send structured requests to outside laboratories and receive results back as structured data. Results can be checked against specification on arrival and connected to the originating laboratory record without re-keying.
This solution brief is for R&D and QC teams that rely on external laboratories but need the same data integrity, traceability, and workflow control they expect from internal testing.
Inside this solution brief:
- How to submit complete, structured requests to external labs
- Ways to connect outsourced results to the original sample and test
- How specification checks can occur when results arrive
- Why structured result return reduces re-entry and transcription risk
- What connected external testing changes for investigations and reporting
Keep outsourced testing inside the scientific record, not outside it in email and attachments.
FAQs
No. Partner labs receive a secure link and sign in. Nothing to install and no seat to buy, and they see only the requests you send them.
In the fields you defined, against the original request. Values arrive as structured data rather than as a document someone has to read and re-type.
Yes. Values are checked against your specifications as they arrive, so an out-of-spec result is visible on arrival rather than at the next review.
Yes. Each lab is invited separately and sees only its own requests, and you keep one view of where every sample is.
