CogTools
CogTools™
Practical, vendor-neutral tools built from hands-on LIMS and lab informatics project experience. No sales pitch, just the frameworks I actually use.
VendorFit 4D™ Solo
01 · Discover
A free, vendor-neutral scoring tool for comparing up to four LIMS vendors side by side. Set your weighted criteria, score each vendor, export your results. It's free today and will stay free, no catch.
Exclusively for Cogsult Clients
VendorFit 4D™ Team
01 · Discover
Larger evaluations often involve more than one voice in the room. VendorFit 4D Team supports multi-scorer sessions with facilitator-managed scoring, built for live vendor demos, with results broken down by vendor, job function, or individual scorer, so you can see where your team agrees and where it doesn't before you decide.
ProjectPrep 4D™ Solo
02 · Design
Score your LIMS project readiness across data, regulatory scope, stakeholders, and budget before you start, so you're not discovering critical gaps three months into the build.
BluePrint 4D™
02 · Design
Generate the use cases, project plan, and testing outline that turn a vague scope into a build-ready plan, giving your team a shared reference before configuration work begins instead of piecing one together mid-project.
Coming soon
Exclusively for Cogsult Clients
DeployPrep 4D™
03 · Deliver
A certification pass before you hand off to go-live. Confirms requirements are met, test cases are executed and passed, and any known exceptions are logged with an owner and a plan. You walk into go-live with a signed-off record, not a guess.
Exclusively for Cogsult Clients
GoLive 4D™
04 · Deploy
The deployment scorecard for cutover and hypercare. Rate go-live readiness across cutover, data migration, vendor and resource readiness, training, hypercare, and post-launch stabilization, so you know where you actually stand before the switch flips.