Vendor outreach · AI parsing · one shared inventory

Biospecimen procurement, on autopilot.

SpecimenFlow runs vendor outreach from one place, reads every reply and Excel file — no matter how their columns are named — and combines it all into one shared, orderable inventory your whole team can see. No more email threads to chase or spreadsheets to merge by hand.

Built for diagnostics, biotherapeutics, assay developers, and life-science tools companies
SpecimenFlow vendor request — parsed, per-sample offerings with attribution
Features

Everything from request to LIMS

The whole procurement workflow — the parts that used to live in your inbox and a pile of spreadsheets.

AI email & sheet parsing

Vendors reply however they like — Excel, CSV, multi-row headers, wild column names. Our AI normalizes every column onto your internal fields.

Automatic attribution

Every sample is matched to the right request by type and diagnosis. Off-panel samples are flagged for review — never silently guessed.

One-click ordering

Select samples across sample types and place a single order. Statuses update instantly and the request moves down the pipeline.

Full pipeline board

Every specimen request as a card — from prospective through outreach, selection, ordered, shipped and accessioned. Status at a glance.

Vendor bundling & POs

One outreach can cover many sample types; a blanket PO can span orders. The ordering model is flexible by design — bundle or split.

LIMS handoff

Shipment manifests parse into expected contents and accession into your LIMS with IDs assigned and a full audit trail retained.

See it in action

Watch SpecimenFlow do the work

Vendors emailed, a messy spreadsheet reply parsed into attributed samples, and a one-click order — all in one place, in about two minutes.

Specimens

Every sample, one place

A unified table across every vendor and study — per-sample rows with patient ID, sample ID, volume and collection date. Filter by disease, toggle to just the samples you've ordered, and get an instant answer to "what have we actually bought for this indication?"

Specimens table filtered by disease
Vendor conversation

Messy replies, parsed & attributed

One conversation with a vendor can cover several requests. The reply is parsed into individual samples and auto-attributed — serum to the serum request, FFPE to the FFPE request — with anything off-panel flagged, and per-row controls to reassign or place one order across sample types.

Vendor request with per-sample attribution
The board

The whole pipeline at a glance

A JIRA-style board of every specimen request across your studies, moving left to right through the procurement lifecycle. Project managers see status across everything at once — no status meetings required.

Procurement lifecycle board
How it works

Six steps, mostly automatic

1

Request

Define the sample type & criteria.

2

Outreach

Email vendors — bundle sample types.

3

Parse

AI turns replies into samples.

4

Order

Select & place one order.

5

Ship

Manifest parsed to expected contents.

6

Accession

Hand off to LIMS with IDs.

Get in touch

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Stop procuring specimens from your inbox

SpecimenFlow parses, attributes, orders and tracks — so your scientists compare samples, not wrestle spreadsheets.

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