Where your report goes after you issue it
A lab’s job ends when the report goes out. The result’s life is only starting. It gets forwarded, printed, retyped, quoted, and eventually summed up in a sale listing as one word. Every step of that journey takes something off it, and the thing that comes off first is the lab’s name.
The gap between a report and a fact
Follow a typical result. It leaves a portal as a PDF, gets emailed to an owner, gets a screenshot taken of one line, lands in a spreadsheet cell as “clear”, and reaches a buyer two owners later with no test name, no date, and no issuer.
Nothing in that chain is dishonest. It is what happens to a document that has no home. The cost lands on the lab anyway, because when a claim turns out to mean something narrower than the buyer assumed, the lab’s name is the one attached to it.
What AnimalTrace does with your report
Your lab stays named on the fact. Every result read from a report keeps the issuing lab as its source and keeps the original report attached to the animal’s record. Anyone downstream can open what you actually issued instead of trusting a retyped summary.
The review route stays visible. AI reads the report and proposes the results it found. In the owner app, proposed values are shown for the owner to review. A separate organizational intake route can automatically accept some single-animal reports after source and identity checks; the record labels that acceptance as automated and notifies the owner. An uncertain marker can still need review, so the original report remains available for checking the result.
Results from different labs stay separate. Reports from any lab can come in, and each result stays tied to the lab that issued it. When two reports on the same animal disagree, both stay on the record side by side, which is what lets a real conflict be investigated instead of quietly overwritten. Our guide on when two DNA reports disagree walks customers through that check, starting with whether the two labs tested the same variant.
Your result keeps working. Carrier results on record feed the breeding checks customers run before a mating (Client Pro), and the parts of a record an owner shares with a buyer or a registry. A result that stays in use is a result that gets returned to, extended, and repeated as a program grows.
What AnimalTrace does not do
AnimalTrace does not run a lab, replace a lab system, re-interpret a result, or issue or certify anything. It does not change what you wrote. Labs and registries stay the authority on their own findings, and the platform’s job is to keep those findings intact and usable in the decisions that come afterwards.
That boundary is deliberate. A record layer that quietly restated lab results would be worth less to everyone, starting with the labs.
Sending results directly
Customers can already bring your reports in themselves. If you would rather send results straight through, that happens in a guided setup: tell us how results leave your system today, whether as files, through a customer portal, or by API, and we work the connection out with you. Nothing inside your lab has to change.
Talk to us about results, or read how AnimalTrace works with labs and how records are put together.