Sporecyte Partnership: The AI Technology Behind AirTrap

Who analyses your samples, what the AI does – and how a specialist keeps it honest.

AirTrap is the sampling side: the cassette, the pump, the prepaid envelope. The analysis side is a partnership with Sporecyte, the environmental analysis platform of Techcyte, Inc. – an AI digital-microscopy company from Orem, Utah. Every AirTrap slide is digitised and read on the Sporecyte platform, and a trained analyst reviews the result before your report is released.

Who Sporecyte is

Techcyte builds AI for digital microscopy and holds a patent for AI-based detection of mould spores (2020). Sporecyte is its environmental product: spore-trap slides are scanned to a whole-slide image, the AI classifies spores and other particles across the entire trace, and lab analysts verify the classification.

For AirTrap, the slides are scanned and analysed with the Sporecyte platform at Apacor's mould lab in the UK – the physical side of the analysis is described on the laboratory partnership page.

Laboratory partnership

What the partnership brings

The whole trace, every time

The AI reads 100 % of the trace on the slide. Manual microscopy typically evaluates a fraction of it and extrapolates.

Breadth

Sporecyte identifies more than 90 spore types and over 10 classes of common airborne particles – pollen, skin fragments, insect parts, fibres.

Consistency

The same criteria on every slide, whoever is on shift – the basis for comparing rooms, dates and properties.

Evidence

High-resolution images taken from your slide go into the report, so you can show your client what was found.

AI with a specialist in the loop

The AI proposes, a person decides. Every classification is reviewed by a trained analyst; unclear objects are re-examined on the digital slide, and only then is the report released. That is the combination Techcyte describes as faster, more accurate and more consistent than either method alone – and it is why the report can say what was found, not just how much.

What is Sporecyte?

Accuracy, oversight, data

Accuracy

The AirTrap XL cassette has been compared side by side with the Air-O-Cell; the results and the study are on the comparison page. We publish what has been measured and label what is preliminary.

Human oversight

No report leaves the lab on the AI's word alone. The analyst's review is part of the process, not an option.

Your data

The lab processes the sample details you register (property, contact, sample locations) and the digital slide images on the Sporecyte platform to produce the report. What we store, for how long and on what basis is set out in our privacy policy.

Frequently asked questions

How does the Sporecyte AI analysis work?

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The slide from your AirTrap XL cassette is scanned to a whole-slide image. The AI locates and classifies spores and particles across the entire trace, an analyst verifies the classification, and the counts are converted to spores/m³ from the sampled air volume.

Is the AI analysis more accurate than a conventional lab?

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It reads the whole trace instead of a fraction, applies the same criteria to every slide and keeps a trained analyst in the loop. That makes results more consistent and better documented; it does not replace the assessment of a surveyor or remediation specialist.

Who checks the result?

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A trained analyst reviews every classification on the digital slide before the report is released.

What happens to my data?

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The registered sample details and the slide images are processed to produce your report; the report is sent to the e-mail address you register. Details are in the privacy policy.