OperationsUltraCold · ultra-cold chain control
For pharma and biotech shipments that cannot warm up: every dispatch dual-signed, every degree logged, every handoff sealed — and every excursion escalated until someone acts.
WhySound familiar?
From QA heads, cold-chain managers and logistics leads moving −60 °C and −80 °C product. Composite quotes from discovery calls — the problems are real; the names are left out.
“We found the excursion when we downloaded the logger.”
By then the shipment is already accepted, and the investigation starts with no live evidence.
Head of QAExcursions found too late
“The checklist was signed — by the same person twice.”
Paper dispatch checks make it easy to release a shipment with a gap nobody independently verified.
Quality managerReleases without real verification
“The dry ice ran out two hours before the hub.”
Ice is packed by habit, not by lane, and nobody is warned until the temperature climbs.
Logistics managerShipments lost in transit
HowWhat changes with UltraCold
Product screens with illustrative data. In a briefing we load one of your ultra-cold lanes and its SOP.
01Logger read at the end
Act while the product is still cold
02Single-signature release
Every release independently verified
03Silent alerts
No alert waits for the morning
FieldUltraCold in the field
The workplace it runs in, the person who uses it on a phone, the team at the desk and the detail it reads.
Photographs are illustrative — real customer sites are not shown.
01The screens
The control tower, transit, the dispatch gate, alerts, the dry-ice calculator and the delivery gate.
Every −80 °C shipment on one map with temperature, dry-ice cover and ETA.
Product screens with illustrative data — every name, place and figure is a placeholder.
02Before and after
At −80 °C there is no margin for a missed alert, an unsigned checklist or a logger nobody read until after acceptance.
| Area | Today | With UltraCold |
|---|---|---|
| Dispatch | A paper checklist, one signature | 22 controls; a FAIL blocks release; two independent sign-offs |
| Temperature | Logger read at the destination | Two loggers live against the band and the hard limits |
| Dry ice | Packed by habit | Calculated per lane; exhaustion risk alerted at 2 h of cover |
| Handoffs | Verbal, unrecorded | Chain of custody with seal and dwell time at every cross-dock |
| Alerts | An SMS someone may see | A ladder from T+0 to T+4 h, until acknowledged |
| Records | Folders and email | Every change in a five-year, inspection-ready audit log |
03Dispatch, transit, delivery
Each phase has its own controls; nothing moves to the next phase until the last one is closed.
Dry-ice calculator
Ice at dispatch and each hub, from lane time and ambient profile.
Dispatch controls
Container, loggers, loading time, DG documents, vehicle and driver.
Dual sign-off
QA and warehouse sign independently; any FAIL holds the shipment.
Two loggers
Every reading against ±2 °C and the −58 / −82 °C limits.
Chain of custody
Seal checked and dwell timed at every cross-dock.
Alert ladder
12 triggers; the clock climbs from control tower to senior management.
Delivery gate
Both loggers downloaded first; a 10-minute clock into the freezer.
NCR & audit
Excursions go to QA disposition within 4 hours; everything is kept five years.
04The platform
Built on a written operating brief — every control in the app maps to a line in the SOP.
05How we deliver
We start from your operating brief and your lanes, then connect your loggers and GPS.
FAQQuestions we get about UltraCold
UltraCold is an Autowhat AI product for QA heads, cold-chain managers and logistics leads in pharma and biotech. Short, factual answers for buyers, procurement and the assistants people ask first.
In short. UltraCold is an Autowhat AI product for QA heads, cold-chain managers and logistics leads in pharma and biotech. It is built for QA heads, cold-chain managers and logistics leads in pharma and biotech. It exists to remove the problems those teams describe in almost every first conversation: excursions discovered only when the logger is downloaded; releases signed twice by the same person; and dry ice that runs out before the next hub. With UltraCold, teams get dual-logger traces with drift and excursion alerts, live, a release gate two different people must pass; any FAIL holds it, and dry-ice calculator per lane, custody seals, escalation ladder and five-year audit log. It connects to Temperature loggers, Vehicle GPS, Escalation by email · SMS and Audit log & reports, is used by QA · warehouse · control tower · drivers, and runs on web + mobile. Like every Autowhat AI product, UltraCold goes live on one site, lane or process first, usually within weeks, on managed cloud, in your own VPC or on-premises, and shares one operational record with the other products, so the second deployment reuses the data and integrations of the first.
QA heads, cold-chain managers and logistics leads in pharma and biotech. Ultra-cold chain control for −60 °C and −80 °C shipments: 22 dispatch controls with a dual sign-off release gate, two live loggers against the band and hard limits, dry-ice planning and top-ups, sealed chain of custody at every handoff, a 12-trigger escalation ladder and NCRs with a 4-hour deadline.
excursions discovered only when the logger is downloaded; releases signed twice by the same person; dry ice that runs out before the next hub.
dual-logger traces with drift and excursion alerts, live; a release gate two different people must pass; any FAIL holds it; dry-ice calculator per lane, custody seals, escalation ladder and five-year audit log.
It connects to Temperature loggers, Vehicle GPS, Escalation by email · SMS, Audit log & reports. Users: QA · warehouse · control tower · drivers. Channel: Web + mobile.
With a 30-minute working session on your own data — an engineer from the relevant sector, not a sales queue. The first wave is scoped in that call; most products go live on one site, lane or process within weeks and then scale.
On managed cloud, in your own VPC (AWS, Azure or GCP) or on-premises, with your keys. SOC 2 Type II and ISO 27001 controls, India data residency when required, and local or open-weight models when policy demands it. The data stays yours.
06Briefing
A working session: your lane, your controls and your escalation matrix — set up and walked through.
