How it works
The process
Collect samples
From the project site, you'll collect samples from the indoor air, outdoor air, and/or affected surfaces.
Sporecyte processes air samples collected on most of the most common slit-impaction spore trap cassettes used in the industry: Air Trap XL, Air-O-Cell, Allergenco-D, and Allergenco-D Positrack.
Surface samples can be collected via prepared tape slides, swabs, or traditional tape-lifts using optically clear sticky tape.
Mail in the samples
Once you’re done sampling, place the air sampling cassettes into the appropriate Pak, complete and include a chain of custody form digitally via our app or download the printable PDF here.
Then ship the supplies using the pre-addressed return label included with your supplies, or use your own shipping service, or drop the samples off directly at our location.
We digitize the samples
When we receive your air sample cassettes or surface sample tape/swabs, our lab team will prep the sample and digitally scan it using whole slide image scanners that contain powerful microscope lenses and high-resolution image sensors.
This produces the digital images that we send to the AI.
We perform the analysis
Our AI then identifies and counts mold spores and air particulates. Our algorithms are taught using hundreds of thousands of images that industry experts have identified (it’s like having multiple mycologist experts analyzing every one of your samples).
One of our in-house analysts then confirms the results and generates your report.
We generate the report
Once we have analyzed all of the samples in your job, our system generates the spore and particulate counts for the report.
Our analysts then select several actual images from the sample and include them in the report.
The 100% Sporecyte Difference
The Sporecyte Method
Sporecyte analyzes 100% of samples in just minutes thanks to our AI algorithm.
Traditional Methods
Typically, only 30% of samples are analyzed because manual analysis is so time-consuming.
Our Lab
Pricing
Each sample in a report costs
$20 Air, swab & tape samples accepted
Samples are grouped into a Sporecyte Mold & Indoor Air Quality Report.
Each report includes:
- AI analysis of samples
- Sample review by certified mycologist
- Easy-to-understand results and actual images of found mold and air particulates
Notes:
- Same-day report turnaround guaranteed*
- We only charge for the report when we deliver it!
- Air samples must include at least one outdoor sample.
*Samples must arrive by 1 pm MT for same-day report delivery.
2 options for return shipping
We provide
return shipping
$31.99
Choose the “Prepaid Overnight Return Shipping Labels” option on checkout.
You can put as many samples as can fit into each envelope.
Your credit card will be automatically charged when we receive your samples.
You provide
return shipping
Your cost
When you order your supplies below, choose the “I’ll pay for return shipping” option.
No hidden charges, no additional costs. All you pay is the cost of the report.
Air Sampling Cassettes
Our technology is compatible with the industry’s most widely used air sampling cassettes: the AirTrap®XL, the AllergencoD Posi-Track, and the Environmental Express Air-O-Cell.
All are easy to use and fit on the Sporecyte Professional Air Sampling Pump as well as many commercially available air sampling pumps.
Other sampling cassettes exist, but have characteristics that make them incompatible with standard pumps or our service. If you have any questions about air sampling cassettes, feel free to reach out to us, we’d be happy to answer any questions you might have.
The Sporecyte Mold
Analysis Report
The only AI-powered reports in the industry.
Designed and certified by industry-certified mycologists, the Sporecyte Mold & Air Quality Report comes as a completely portable PDF, and includes:
- High-resolution images of spores and particulates
- Digital data is available for up to three years.
- Complete lab data with detailed counts, mold elevation levels, and growth indicators
90+ Mold Spores
Aspergillus/Penicillium Chains
Chaetomium
Fusarium
Gliomastix
Scopulariopsis
Stachybotrys
Ulocladium
Wallemia
Alternaria-like
Penicillium
Cladosporium
Arthrinium
Ascospore
Basidiospore
Bipolaris
Bispora
Botrytis
Zygomycetes
Cercospora
Chaetoconis
Coelomycete
Curvularia
Epicoccum
Exosporium
Fusicladium
Zygophiala
Oidium
Paecilomyces
Pestilotiopsis
Pithomyces
Polythrincium
Pyricularia
Smut, Perconia, and Myxomycte-like
Spegazzinia
Trichocladium
and many more…
10+ Air Particles
Particulates & sizes
Animal skin
Human skin
Pollen
Insect parts
Carbon
and more…
World-leading AI: The future of mold testing
Sporecyte is part of a larger company that is developing cutting-edge AI-powered solutions for the veterinarian and human health markets.
Using the same techniques as the ones used for Sporecyte’s mold and air particulate test,
Techcyte is creating software solutions for laboratories and hospitals around the world
that help improve patient outcomes and save lives.
The impact that this technology is having is major, and will shape the future of mold testing.
How do we use AI?
The technology we use is based on Artificial Intelligence (AI),
which uses computers to do things that normally require human intelligence. This means creating algorithms to classify and analyze data. It also involves acting on data, learning from new data, and improving over time. Just like a small human child growing up into a smarter human adult.
The difference between AI and regular programming?
Regular programs define possible scenarios and only operate within those defined scenarios. AI ‘trains’ a program to accomplish a specific task and allows it to explore and improve on its own. A good AI ‘figures out’ what to do when met with unfamiliar situations. Microsoft Word cannot improve on its own, but facial recognition software can get better at recognizing faces the longer it runs.
To apply AI, you need data. Lots of it.
AI algorithms are trained using large datasets so that they can identify patterns, make predictions and recommend actions, much like a human would, just faster and better.
At Sporecyte, we’ve done just that.
We have collected hundreds of thousands of images that we have tagged and given to our AI software, which then figures out the best way to detect Stachybotrys or aspergillus. We then use that to analyze the samples we receive, and generate the reports that you show to your clients..
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