The microstructures your lab has seen, searchable.
Every micrograph your lab takes, indexed by alloy, condition, and etchant. Promote the references worth keeping. Optionally publish to the global atlas with the prep ladder attached, so other labs can see how the structure was actually produced.
A reference your team can actually use.
Folders of unlabeled images aren't a reference, they're storage. The atlas is built around how a metallographer searches: by alloy, by etchant, by what the sample was meant to show.
Indexed by alloy, condition, and etchant
Every atlas entry carries the same axes a metallographer uses when looking for a reference image: alloy, hardness or temper, etchant, magnification, illumination mode. Search by any of them.
Built from your sample journal, automatically
When a sample's micrograph is worth keeping as a reference, promote it to the atlas in one click. The alloy, etchant, and prep ladder come along; you don't re-tag the image.
Visibility scope per entry
Private, lab, org, or global. The default is lab. An atlas entry never crosses your lab's boundary unless someone with the right role intentionally widens its scope.
Global atlas: prep ladder included
Global entries opt into sharing the prep recipe alongside the image. That's the point: another lab seeing a reference micrograph for 4140 Q&T can also see the polishing ladder and etchant that produced it. The next person doesn't have to guess.
Image storage stays private
Atlas images live in private storage buckets and are served via short-lived signed URLs. Even global entries are served through the application, never as bare public URLs, so a leaked link doesn't grant indefinite access.
A reference, not a dumping ground
The atlas is curated by promotion. Every micrograph attaches to its sample's journal automatically; only the ones the lab decides are reference-worthy get promoted. The atlas stays useful as it grows because its bar for entry is the lab's bar.
Common questions about the atlas.
- Can I see other labs' atlas images?
- Yes, when those labs have intentionally set their atlas entries to global visibility. The Phase 2 surface is a gallery-style search dedicated to the global atlas. Today, signed-in users can browse global entries from inside the app at /atlas/global.
- What does 'global sharing includes the prep ladder' mean?
- When a lab promotes an atlas entry to global, the prep recipe used on that sample (mounting, grinding, polishing, etching parameters) is shared with the image. That's the point of the global atlas: cross-organization viewing of how the structure was actually produced, not just what it looks like.
- Are atlas images publicly accessible?
- No, never as bare URLs. Even global atlas images are served through the application using short-lived signed URLs. Anonymous public viewing is not enabled today.
- Can I delete an atlas entry?
- Yes. Atlas entries are soft-deleted by default, recoverable, and tracked in the audit log. Hard deletion is on request and described on the trust page.
- How do I keep someone from sharing a sensitive image globally?
- Atlas visibility changes are gated to lab admins and technicians; viewers cannot mutate atlas state. Visibility changes are recorded in the audit log. If your lab works on customer or proprietary material, set the lab default to keep entries lab-scoped, and review any global promotion in the audit log.
Pairs with recipes (atlas entries reference the recipe that produced them), etchants, studies, and signed-URL image storage.
Your lab's microstructures, indexed and searchable.
Free to try. No setup call required.