AssayGuard
QA/QC review that happens in minutes, not quarters.
AssayGuard is a focused tool for exploration teams who don't want to find out about a failed standard six months after the affected drillholes have been signed off. Drop in your lab batch the day it arrives — get a clear, defensible quality report before you've made another decision based on the data.
The Problem
The QA/QC Review That Keeps Getting Pushed
Every junior reading this knows the pattern.
The familiar timeline
Lab returns the batch on Tuesday. Field crew is firefighting. The geologist intends to review the QA/QC samples this week. Drilling continues. Financing meetings happen. Field season closes. Three months later, building the QA/QC summary for the next technical report, a systematic issue surfaces — a standard that's been failing low for half the year, a duplicate pattern nobody flagged, a lab batch that drifted. By then, a hundred holes have been logged against partially-bad data.
Standards, blanks, and duplicates work — when somebody actually reviews them. The reason they so often don't get reviewed is structural, not intentional: it's tedious, it's boring, it never feels like the most urgent thing, and the cost of skipping it doesn't show up until it's expensive to fix.
AssayGuard removes the structural reason. The review happens automatically, the same day the batch arrives, with a clear report that lands in the right inboxes. The data gets caught while it's still fresh, while the decisions it would have affected haven't been made yet.
What You Get
A Short, Clear Quality Report — Every Batch, Every Time
Per-batch validation, automatically. Standards (CRMs and project in-house), blanks, and duplicates checked against your project's QA/QC plan. Pass / warning / fail per check. Clear language. No spreadsheet wrangling required.
The report arrives where it belongs. Project geologist, database admin, and Qualified Person all get the same one-page summary. Nobody has to ask whether the batch was reviewed — it was, and here's the report.
The audit trail builds itself. Every batch, every check, every flagged sample, every resolution — captured continuously. When the next technical report needs a QA/QC summary, it's already there.
The longer it runs, the more it catches. Subtle drift across months of batches. Trends that no single batch reveals. The kind of issues that only show up when somebody is consistently watching — and now something is.
Who It's Built For
Junior and Mid-Tier Exploration Teams
AssayGuard is built for the people the data quality actually matters to — and the cost of getting it wrong falls on.
Project Geologists
Get back the hours you'd spend reviewing batches. More importantly, never get blindsided by a quality issue in a board meeting.
Database Managers
Every batch arrives validated and tagged. The chronic "did anyone check this batch?" question stops being a question.
Qualified Persons
The data behind your signature is continuously validated, traceable, and defensible — not assembled in a quarter-end scramble.
Exploration Managers
Walk into financing meetings and due-diligence reviews knowing the data is clean. Don't have to discount the quality story.
The Numbers
What This Is Worth
In the Family
AssayGuard + LodeGuard + VistaGuard
The chain, working together
AssayGuard protects the integrity of your input data — per-batch QA/QC review in minutes, not quarters.
LodeGuard turns the validated data into vectoring signal — defensible multivariate analysis with a methodology memo.
VistaGuard turns the analysis into spatial output — maps, strip logs, sections, polygons, all reproducible and disclosed.
Use any one alone, or chain them for end-to-end coverage from lab return to QP-ready spatial deliverable. LodeGuard → · VistaGuard →
Why Us
Built by Geologists, Not by a Generic Software Shop
Most exploration software is built by software companies who learn the geology second. AssayGuard is built the other way around — by people who have logged core, reviewed assay batches, and sat through the conversations where a QA/QC issue gets surfaced late. The product is shaped by what actually matters in the field and the boardroom, not by what's easy to engineer.
Everything in AssayGuard is designed to be defensible to a working QP and readable by a working geologist. Methodology is disclosed, not buried. Thresholds are documented, not opaque. The product behaves like a colleague who's careful about the things you'd want a careful colleague to be careful about.
Limited Pilot Cohort Opening Soon
AssayGuard is currently in active build. We're opening a small pilot cohort for the first version — exploration teams with active drill programs who want to be the first to use it, shape its direction, and lock in early-adopter pricing. If your project has assay batches returning monthly, this is for you.
Pilot cohort is limited. We're picking customers who'll get the most out of it and who'll give us the most useful feedback. Send us a note and tell us about your program.
More on the Way
AssayGuard Is the First of Several
AssayGuard is the entry point to a planned catalog of focused tools for the junior exploration industry — each addressing a chronic workflow gap, each designed to be defensible to a working geologist. Join the early-access list to hear about the next releases first.