Overview
Labready is a digital workflow assistant designed for research labs.
It unifies:
- Experiment Planning
- COSHH / Risk Assessments
- Inventory Management
- Scheduling
…into one system, reducing administrative overhead while improving safety and reproducibility.
The Problem
Lab operations are often fragmented across spreadsheets, documents, emails, and disconnected tools. This creates:
- duplicated effort
- inconsistent documentation
- higher compliance risk
- poor visibility into inventory and scheduling
- avoidable friction that slows research work
The result is operational overhead that impacts both productivity and safety.
Users
- Researchers and lab technicians
- Lab managers
- Safety/compliance stakeholders
My Role
I led product definition and workflow design, translating lab processes into a unified system and building the web + mobile experiences.
Key Product Decisions
1) Build a workflow assistant not another single-purpose tool
The core problem is fragmentation. The solution is a unified workflow layer across planning, compliance, inventory, and scheduling.
2) Treat safety and auditability as product value
COSHH/risk workflows were designed as value drivers, not administrative overhead.
3) Reduce admin by making responsibilities explicit
Structured workflows reduce repeated manual entry and improve consistency.
What I Built
- Experiment planning workflow
- COSHH/risk assessment workflow
- Inventory visibility and tracking
- Scheduling and coordination features
Outcomes
Labready is built as a workflow prototype and MVP-ready system, designed for pilot validation in research labs.
Learnings
- Workflow products win by removing fragmentation, not adding features
- Adoption increases when time saved is visible immediately
- Auditability and trust are core requirements in regulated environments
What’s Next
- Pilot validation with labs to refine workflows
- Improve onboarding templates to accelerate adoption
- Add analytics to surface bottlenecks and reduce overhead