Keep It Simple. Make It Known.

Instant Material Identification. Anywhere.

Scan a material and get a clear answer in seconds. No lab, no experts, no guesswork.

We help organizations identify materials on site, flag risks early, and feed clean data into existing workflows.

Narcotics | Environmental | Brand Protection

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Don’t Estimate. Know more than just your material.


Unknown Labs offers next generation solutions for today’s problems. We blend hardware, AI powered software and a secure cloud environment to give clients not just answers, but a deep understanding. One reading from your devices is enough for our tools to tell you all there is to know about your material and enable other insights to your identification.

We don’t stop at identification. We enable users to analyze, explore, and extract meaning from their data. You can trace origins, spot anomalies and make confident decisions. 

In A Nutshell.

In today’s fast paced industrial environment, waiting days or weeks for lab results simply isn’t compatible with efficient, high quality operations. With our handheld/benchtop material scanning solution, teams can now identify and verify materials on the spot, in seconds, with clear pass/fail or “investigate further” results. All without needing specialized lab equipment or expert interpretation. This capability transforms material identification from a bottleneck into a real time decision making tool, allowing quality assurance, production, safety, and compliance teams to act immediately with confidence.

Unlike traditional sampling that requires shipping, queuing, and expert analysis, every scan you perform with our device is automatically saved into a searchable internal database, building organizational knowledge over time.

This structured data becomes a powerful asset.

You can track trends, compare batches, generate reports, export results to existing systems, and integrate material verification into your normal quality and safety workflows. Rather than one-off tests, material identification becomes an ongoing, intelligent process that enhances traceability and accountability across your operation.

By embedding rapid material verification directly into your workflow, your teams can reduce costly delays, avoid production errors, and drastically cut dependency on external laboratories. Our solution ensures materials are right before they move forward.

Whether it’s incoming inspections at a warehouse, raw material checks on the factory floor, or safety screening in field conditions. Fast, reliable, and actionable results empower your teams to make confident decisions on site, maintain compliance, and boost operational efficiency, ultimately saving time and money while improving quality and safety outcomes.

    • Identify plastics, composites, unknown waste

    • Verify sorting decisions

    • Reduce contamination and misclassification

    • Build traceability over time

    • Verify liquids, powders, materials

    • Detect substitutions or dilution

    • Compare against known references

    • Protect brand integrity at scale

    • Screen unknown chemicals

    • Flag dangerous substances early

    • Decide what needs lab confirmation

    • Improve worker safety

    • On-site substance identification

    • Detect adulterants and cutting agents

    • Track trends over time

    • Support harm reduction and enforcement

    • Incoming material verification

    • Supplier checks

    • Process monitoring

    • Audit support

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We turn complex material analysis into a simple scan and answer experience.

  • Scan a material on-site.

  • Get an instant result.

  • No scientific background required.