Features
Built as modules, so you run only what you need.
Compliance tracking is the core of TRACE. These are the pieces that sit on top of it — some included in the plan itself, some switched on per consultancy, and several sold as products in their own right, if the one module is all you need. Look for the Add-on or standalone badge.
Getting started
Nobody leaves you to work out where to start.
A first week, not a blank page
Your dashboard opens with the handful of things worth doing first — your own company and program, a technician, a certification, your logo on your reports — and which of the modules below actually suit the records you already have. Fold it to one line when it is in the way, or hide it and bring it back from your Account page; it goes on its own once the list is done.
A checklist on the modules you buy
Tool Control, Safety, People, Project Management, Ledger, Clients, Certification Testing and QMS each open with a short list of what that module needs before it can do anything useful — the register to fill, the first record to write — with the link that gets it done, and a spreadsheet import where there is one. It stays on the page afterwards, folded to a single line.
Ticked by your records, not by you
Nothing here is a box you mark done. A step is finished when the record exists, read from your own data every time the page loads, so a checklist can never quietly disagree with what you actually have. Two short notes arrive in your first fortnight — what is still open, then the modules that fit — and the second one stops if you have turned the reminder digest off.
Certification Testing
Author certification exams, administer them online or on paper with proctoring, certificates and retake rules, and credit passing scores to the certification.
The Level III who writes and marks the exams, and would rather the score landed on the certification than be typed there twice.
Read moreNDT Question Bank
TRACE-written NDT exam questions by method and level, ready to pull into any certification test. Requires Certification Testing.
Firms that need an exam bank this month and have no appetite for writing three hundred questions first. It rides on Certification Testing rather than standing alone.
Read moreTool Control
Track equipment calibration and daily process controls against your standards' set points, with custody, vendor send-outs, and an out-of-tolerance answer that names the work at risk.
Whoever gets asked — usually at the worst moment — when that gauge was last calibrated, and what work it touched if the answer is bad.
Read moreSafety
Track safety trainings, dosimetry results, RSO field audits, and source leak tests — record-keeping for the safety program, not a substitute for it.
The Radiation Safety Officer, and whoever keeps the training, dose and leak-test file an auditor will ask for.
Read morePeople
Onboarding checklists, employment records and restricted files — kept beside the certifications they belong to.
The person who keeps the employee paperwork — in most NDT firms, the same person who keeps the certifications.
Read moreProject Management
Run jobs end to end — crew and equipment assignment, field time, inspection reports on your own forms, customer sign-off on site, expenses and per-job profitability.
Firms that send crews out: whoever schedules the technicians, whoever writes and signs off the inspection reports, and whoever works out afterwards whether the job made money.
Read moreQMS
Run internal audits and keep findings, CAPAs, NCRs, complaints, risks, controlled documents and management reviews in one place — record-keeping, not certification.
The quality manager running an ISO 9001, ISO/IEC 17025 or Nadcap system without a quality department to run it with.
Read moreClients
Track opportunities through your pipeline and send priced estimates on your letterhead, with saved terms and totals that keep themselves right.
The owner who is also the salesperson, quoting from a Word template and remembering the follow-up by luck.
Read moreLedger
Invoice clients, send purchase orders, track what's owed both ways, match your bank statement against the books, and hand your accountant the summaries they ask for.
Small firms invoicing out of a spreadsheet — whoever chases what is owed when nobody's job title is credit control, and whoever sits down at month end with the bank statement and a shoebox of receipts.
Read moreImport your files
Choose a folder on your computer and TRACE sorts it into technician records, written practice, quality procedures, forms and calibration certificates for you to review before anything is imported.
The Level III or quality manager switching to TRACE with years of PDFs and Word files in shared folders, who would rather sort them once than upload them one at a time.
Read moreClient Portal
A secure login per client company — the work you do for them, or their whole compliance program, whichever they are to you — and nothing else.
Consultancies whose clients email asking for records, and who would rather the client simply looked.
Read moreTechnician Portal
A personal login for each technician showing their own certifications, due dates, documents and assigned exams — and the jobs, hours, field reports and charge sheets of their own work.
Firms whose technicians keep asking for a copy of their own certifications, and who would rather hand out a login than an attachment.
Read moreAI Assist
Extract records from certification packets, lay one of your own forms out as a TRACE form, ask questions about your own data, and — with QMS — pre-assess Nadcap checklists against client procedures.
Whoever onboards a new technician and is holding the folder they arrived with — and whoever gets asked a question their own records already answer, somewhere.
Read moreCode Watch
A TRACE-maintained watch list of NDT codes and standards — read automatically every week where a publisher lists the revision publicly, re-verified by hand where none does — with an alert when a new revision is published.
The person expected to notice when a code they work to is revised, in a week that never leaves time to go and check.
Read moreTask Boards
Lists, cards and drag and drop — labels, checklists, due dates and comments — linked to your jobs and companies, with every core compliance plan.
Teams already running their work on sticky notes, a whiteboard or somebody else's board tool, who want the cards to sit beside the jobs and companies they are about.
Read moreMobile App
An Android field app for technicians and consultants, on the same login and rules as the website, that keeps field work made out of signal until it can send.
Technicians standing at the equipment, at the vault or on a customer's site — and the consultant who wants the record made there rather than remembered until Friday.
Read moreCommunity
A forum, member directory and mentoring shared by the consultancies on TRACE — opt-in profiles, no client logins, and none of your records.
The consultant who is the only Level III in the building, and would like somebody to ask who has seen the problem before.
Read moreGuides
NAS410, SNT-TC-1A, CP-189, exams, written practices: plain-English guides to the standards and the day-to-day of a certification program.
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