Slow, unglamorous work that taught us where the corners were being cut.
For the first few years there was no website, no brand, no public client list. We tested for ourselves and for a small circle of researchers who found us through word of mouth. Reports went out as plain PDFs with our initials at the bottom.
We were too embarrassed to charge while we were still calibrating our methods against pharmacopeial reference standards, and the autosampler died three separate times that first year. None of it was glamorous. All of it taught us exactly which corners the rest of the industry was cutting.
A borrowed bench
We leased a corner of a friend's contract chemistry space in Hayward. One refurbished Agilent 1100 HPLC, bought at a university surplus auction for less than the price of a used car, and a mass spec we paid for by the hour after the day shift went home. For the first six months we ran every sample for free.
The mistake that built our method
We called a methodology wrong on a CJC-1295 sample, missed a degradation product that should have been flagged, and had to reissue the report and refund the client. That mistake is the reason every peptide assay now gets confirmed against a second, orthogonal method before any certificate leaves the building.
Our own benchspace
The side project had outgrown the arrangement. We moved into our own space, added a second HPLC-MS, and brought in Finn C., a contract-lab veteran, to run the lab as Director and stand up a real, written quality system.
General partnership
Operated as a general partnership between the founders: informal, sample by sample, with every report countersigned individually.
Public for the first time
The website you are reading went live. So if you whois the domain, yes, it looks new, because publicly it is. The work behind it is not.
Accreditation, expected
ISO/IEC 17025 accreditation, started in late 2024, is expected to complete in late 2026. Until then, methods are validated against USP and pharmacopeial reference standards.
Small on purpose.
Four chemists, one lab manager, and one person who answers the emails and ships the sample kits. That is the whole company, and we intend to keep it that size.
Marcus L.
Spent the better part of a decade in Bay Area contract labs before Titreon. Co-built the methods the lab runs today.
Devi R.
The other half of the original two-person bench. Hand-injected for weeks the year the autosampler kept dying.
Finn C.
Close to two decades in pharmaceutical and bioanalytical QC. The reason our SOPs exist in their current form, with sign-offs at every stage.
Brennan C.
Owns release. No certificate goes out until it has been reviewed against acceptance criteria under the Titreon quality system.
The rules we built the hard way
Two methods, every time
We run full method validation on every batch, not single-injection screens. Every assay is confirmed against a second, orthogonal method before it is released.
We hand you the raw data
Every certificate includes the raw chromatographic and spectral data, so you can check our work instead of taking our word for it.
Validated, and honest about the rest
Our methods are validated against USP and pharmacopeial reference standards, and we work with an ISO/IEC 17025 accredited partner laboratory. We are working toward our own ISO/IEC 17025 accreditation, expected in late 2026. Our SOPs are available on written request.
We do not compete on price
Titreon costs more than the bargain COA mills, because full validation costs more than a single injection. If the cheapest certificate is the priority, we are not the right lab for you.
Independence & compliance
Titreon Analytical is a testing laboratory only. We do not manufacture, sell, supply, endorse or recommend any product we test, and nothing we publish is medical, clinical or dosing advice. Methods are validated against USP and pharmacopeial reference standards and corroborated with an ISO/IEC 17025 accredited partner laboratory; Titreon’s own ISO/IEC 17025 accreditation is in progress. All materials referenced are for laboratory research use only and are not for human or veterinary use. Any decision made on the basis of a result is taken at the reader’s own risk.
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