The Collective Herb lab platform · live in our labs
Run your tissue culture lab like a real operation.
The Collective Herb lab platform is tissue culture lab management software that replaces the spreadsheets and the manual data entry. Track every culture from initiation to cold storage, catch contamination early, screen for HLVd, print labels, and give your growers a portal. The tracking runs itself and scales as you do, so you add cultivars, not spreadsheet hours.
Live in the labs we build, with more operators coming online now. License it for a lab you already run, or get it included when we build your lab.
Why it exists
Spreadsheets work for a few cultivars, then they quietly fall apart.
A handful of cultivars is easy to track by hand. Add more cultivars, more batches, more stages, and more people, and the manual inputs pile up until the tracking takes more labor than the growing. The math gets missed, the flags come late, and headcount climbs to keep up.
Automations that scale
The software does the tracking, so your team does the growing.
The platform runs the labor-heavy tracking and the lab-metric math for you, and the automations hold up as you add cultivars, batches, and people. You grow the operation without growing the busywork.
- Projects the next subculture, cut, and stage-handoff dates, so no one is watching a calendar
- Does the mult-rate and finishing-tub math, and runs A/B cold-storage rotation with due and missing flags
- Keeps live lab metrics current and ranks a worst-first needs-attention list, with low-stock reorder prompts
Command center
A dashboard that tells you what needs you today.
Open the app and see it: overdue work, cold-storage backups due, low supplies, and pathogen flags, ranked worst-first, plus live KPIs for the whole lab.
- Needs-attention triage, pulled live from every log
- Active cultivars, mult rate, contamination rate at a glance
- One click into the exact record that needs work
The whole pipeline
Every cultivar, every stage, initiation to cold storage.
Log initiation, multiplication, rooting, hardening, and cold storage in one connected flow. The app auto-projects the next cut and the next handoff so nothing stalls.
- Auto-calculated next-mult and handoff dates
- Mult-rate math and finishing-tub counts done for you
- A/B cold-storage rotation with due and missing flags
Lab health
Catch contamination before it spreads. AI coming
Log every contamination event with a photo, media batch, stage, and operator, then see the trend by cultivar and recipe. Next: a vision model reads the photo, categorizes the contaminant, and flags a rising rate before it costs you a run.
- Contamination by cultivar, stage, recipe, and operator
- Photo, level, and notes on every entry
- Photo-based AI categorization (in build)
Screening down to the meristem
The science behind clean stock.
HLVd silently costs potency and yield. We isolate the clean tip, verify it, and rebuild your library. The platform tracks every step.
Everything else the lab needs
One system, end to end.
Pathogen & HLVd screening
Log qPCR results, upload the lab PDF, and track clean vs positive lines per cultivar over time.
Label printing
Batch-accurate labels on Avery sheets, one sticker per cultivar and media, with full traceability.
Client portal
Your growers request cultivars and watch progress in a clean portal, scoped to only their data.
Media & inventory
Track media batches, autoclave runs, and supplies with low-stock reorder prompts.
Secure & multi-tenant
Row-level security keeps each lab's data fully isolated. Real logins, real roles.
Works at the bench
Log the work where it happens, on a laptop or a tablet at the hood.
Automations that scale
From a few cultivars to a full room.
Built on the lab floor
Not a generic tool. Built by the people who build your lab.
David spent 5+ years in tissue culture and 15+ years in commercial cannabis cultivation, including leading plant pathology and 150+ client facility visits as Director of Customer Success at a top tissue culture lab. He built this platform out of that experience, and it now runs in the commercial labs Collective Herb designs and builds.
Built in a real lab
Software born on the bench.
Platform FAQ
Questions about the lab platform.
How much does the Collective Herb lab platform cost, and can I get it on its own?
The Collective Herb lab platform is tissue culture lab management software you can license on its own or get included when we build your lab. It is live in the labs we build today, and standalone licensing is now launching to more operators. If we are building your lab, the platform comes with the build and is running before your team starts production. Pricing scales with the size of your operation, so book a demo and we will walk through it with real data and give you a straight number for your facility.
Is the lab platform secure, and can other labs see my data?
The Collective Herb lab platform is multi-tenant software where every lab's data is fully isolated from every other lab. Row-level security enforces that isolation at the database, so one lab can never see another lab's cultivars, results, or growers. Every user has a real login and a real role, and your growers only see the data scoped to them. Your genetics and your records stay yours.
Does the platform replace my spreadsheets?
Yes, the Collective Herb lab platform replaces the spreadsheets and the manual data entry that break down as a lab grows. Spreadsheets work for a handful of cultivars, then the inputs pile up and the tracking takes more labor than the growing. The platform tracks every culture from initiation to cold storage, does the mult-rate and finishing-tub math for you, and projects the next cut and stage handoff, so nobody is watching a calendar or rekeying a row.
How do we get onboarded onto the platform?
Onboarding the Collective Herb lab platform means we set up your tenant, load your cultivars and media recipes, and train your team on their real data. When the platform comes with a lab build, it is running before production starts, so your first cultures are logged in the system from day one. For a standalone lab, we bring your existing library in and get your team working in it, not learning it in the abstract.
Does the platform work at the bench, or only in an office?
The Collective Herb lab platform runs in the browser and works at the bench, on a laptop or a tablet at the hood, where the work actually happens. You log initiation, multiplication, contamination events, and pathogen results at the point of work, with a photo on every contamination entry, so the record is accurate instead of reconstructed from memory at the end of the day.
Who owns the data in the platform?
Your lab owns its data in the Collective Herb lab platform. Every cultivar record, qPCR result, contamination log, and media batch belongs to your lab, and your tenant is isolated from every other lab by row-level security. The model is autonomy, not lock-in. We built the platform to run your operation, not to hold your records hostage.
Is this cannabis tissue culture software, or a general lab system?
The Collective Herb lab platform is cannabis tissue culture lab software specifically. It is not a seed-to-sale compliance system and it is not built for ornamental plants. It tracks cultures, cultivars, media recipes, and HLVd screening through every tissue culture stage from initiation to cold storage, and it was built by the team that builds cannabis tissue culture labs.
Get the platform running in your lab.
Included when we build your lab, or license it for a lab you already run. Book a demo and we will walk you through it with real data.