MetraSlate

One Platform for the Work You Do.

Standard brings your people, equipment, work, quality, and business records into one operations platform. Industry editions adapt it to the language and requirements of your work.

MetraSlate

The platform

What Every Edition Shares.

One record spine. Every department reads and writes the same records, so nothing is re-typed between systems.

The shared platformOne record at the center, six areas around it: work and records, people and permissions, equipment and assets, quality and documents, reporting, and business operations.ONERECORDWork and RecordsPeople and PermissionsEquipment and AssetsQuality and DocumentsReportingBusiness Operations
  • Work and Records. Requests, estimates, orders, the record each one leaves
  • People and Permissions. Who may do what, recorded against the person
  • Equipment and Assets. What you own, where it is, what it has been through
  • Quality and Documents. Review, nonconformance, controlled documents
  • Reporting. Questions answered from the same records
  • Business Operations. Invoicing, receivables, the books

Editions

Built for Any Industry. Delivered One Edition at a Time.

One shared platform, adapted to the records, roles and requirements of each industry. See the editions.

Metrology EditionThe first edition
Calibration and metrology businesses: the request, the estimate, the work order, the calibration itself, the review, the sealed certificate, and the invoice, on one record. See the Metrology Edition.
Public Safety EditionNext, in development
Agency operations: personnel and their qualifications, equipment readiness, review and quality, and the records an agency is obliged to keep, alongside the emergency communications systems it already runs. See where it stands.
Traceability EditionLater, in design
A defensible record of AI-assisted work: requirements, controlled protocols, recorded actions, evaluation, and evidence of change, on the same sealed record spine. See the Traceability Edition.

Metra Praxis

How an Edition Gets Made.

The method is public. Read about Metra Praxis. The method and the edition documents are in the library.

  1. Learn the Work

    The people who do the work describe it in their own words: the roles, the records, the workflows, the standards that bind them, and the numbers that matter. The operator writes it down exactly and never proposes a solution during this stage.

  2. Define the System

    The whole system on ten pages: every record as a subject with its lifecycle, the spine record that cannot be wrong, who sees what, the standards mapped to the records that prove them, the integrations, the volumes.

  3. Review with Domain Experts

    The picture is read against the interviews and the research, section by section. A section that does not hold sends the operator back to the expert with a specific question, not to their own judgment.

  4. Deliver a Bounded First Release

    A first product on one page, with a bounded scope and an acceptance audit written before the building starts. What ships first, and how everyone will know it worked.

  5. Verify It Against the Work

    Evidence from working software, checked by people who did not write it, against the records the experts said mattered. What is proven is recorded with how it was observed.

See Standard on Your Own Work.

A live walkthrough of the application, twenty minutes, with the founder answering the questions. Bring the record that gives you the most trouble.