THE RECORD NOBODY COULD READ
In regulated science, the audit trail is the law. It's the legal memory of a lab — who changed what, when, and why — and almost nobody can actually read it. Audit for Life Sciences is a redesign of that memory: turning a wall of compliance rows into something a scientist, or an auditor, can actually follow.
In a Good Laboratory Practice environment, nothing gets deleted and nothing goes unrecorded. Every edit, every reason, every timestamp is kept — because one day a regulator might need to reconstruct exactly what happened.
The result is thousands of rows that are technically complete and practically unreadable.
The story is all in there. You just can't see it.
A SPREADSHEET THAT BEHAVES
None of this was designed against tidy dummy data. Every paradigm was tested against real audit data, across more than one module, so the design held up against the genuine mess of regulated work — not a clean demo that falls over in production.
Impact: ~ £11M saved per year / customer for Instem
If it couldn't survive the real record, it didn't make the cut.
WHY IT MATTERS
Audit trails will never be the exciting part of lab software. But they're the part that has to be trusted.
In-scope base: 120 customers (e.g. Pfizer, AstraZeneca, Novo Nordisk, etc)
Hours saved: ~103,000/year
Labour cost saved: ~£7.7m/year
Consolidation value: ~£1.1m/year
Total annual value: ~£11m (range ~£9.3m–£11.1m)
Making them legible isn't decoration. It's how science stays accountable.