Build
Replace repeated document, spreadsheet, or manual work with a maintainable tool.
Start with a workflow map and build scope.
Document automationLaboratory and operational systems
Your lab’s systems, finally owned.
LIMS consulting, instrument integrations, and managed support for the systems your lab inherited—led by a senior engineer from first map to maintained production. We also build and operate software, automation, and infrastructure for broader engineering needs.
Start with the system you have. The first call confirms fit and the next step.
Route the problem
Choose the problem to solve.
CTM scopes work around the problem at hand, whether it calls for software, clearer ownership, or a safer support path.
Stabilize
Reduce support, backup, and change risk in an inherited or aging LIMS.
Start with a read-only recovery assessment.
Stabilization serviceIntegrate
Stop re-keying data and building recurring reports by hand.
Start by mapping the systems, owners, and failure paths.
Integration workOperate
Put monitoring, maintenance, and support around a private app or lab system.
Start with an operations and support check.
Managed operationsAccountability
Senior judgment stays close to the work.
Know who leads the work, what CTM will deliver, and who owns each decision.
Founder-led delivery
Petie Clark, Founder + Principal
Petie leads CTM's work across lab informatics, integrations, infrastructure, and software operations.
About CTM- 01Chosen by a multi-laboratory water-testing group. Clearline LIMS under a multi-year agreement.
- 022 laboratories · 75 users in production. Architected, migrated, and operated by CTM.
- 03New environments in under an hour. Down from about a week, after standardizing provisioning.
Managed product
Clearline LIMS is one part of CTM’s systems work.
A managed LIMS product for testing labs, with implementation responsibilities established before work begins.
- Product
- Clearline LIMS
- Work around it
- Migration, reporting, validation, training, and ongoing operations
How CTM works
From system map to ongoing support.
Work moves through four clear stages.
Map
Document the workflow, systems, owners, risks, and decisions.
Build
Configure, automate, migrate, or connect the agreed work.
Operate
Set runbooks, monitoring, backups, support, and handoff.
Improve
Prioritize changes based on use and support needs.
The handoff
Bring the system problem.
The first call confirms fit and whether a paid assessment should come next.
Useful to bring
- The workflow that is slowing down.
- The systems, documents, and people involved.
- The decision or deadline ahead.
Before you send anything: Do not include credentials, regulated records, production exports, or client-sensitive material.
What happens after a systems review request
Start with fit, not a production export. In the first conversation, describe the lab or operating context, one workflow or systems problem, the current tools, the outcome you need, and who owns the decision. Share only sanitized diagrams, field lists, blank templates, or redacted error examples if they are needed; do not send credentials, regulated records, client-identifying material, or production exports.
CTM uses that context to identify the systems and handoffs to inspect, surface assumptions and evidence gaps, and recommend a bounded next step. The decision deliverable is a written scope for an assessment or implementation—or a clear statement that the fit is not established. A paid assessment is separate work: its questions, access, evidence, deliverables, exclusions, and fee are agreed in writing before it begins. No implementation or production change is implied by the first call.
If the parties agree on a scoped next step, CTM provides a written proposal covering the selected service lane (assessment, stabilization, integration, implementation, or managed support), objective and boundaries, inputs and access, deliverables and acceptance evidence, dependencies, exclusions, commercial terms, and follow-up owner. Pricing and timing are set for that scope, not assumed here.