Powering R&D and innovation portfolios across regulated, formulation-driven industries
The system of record for the portfolio and the science are usually disparate, forcing manual reconciliation. Uncountable's PPM runs prioritization, stage-gating, resourcing, and business cases on the same platform as the R&D work, so status is always derived from live data.
| Program | Stage | Status |
|---|---|---|
| SPF 50 Reformulation | Development | On Track |
| Legacy Tackifier Swap | Development | Stalled 90d |
| Low-VOC Coating | Feasibility | 61 Experiments |
Illustrative UI: not actual customer data
The portfolio runs on the same data as the work, so status comes straight from the lab, not a separate reporting layer.
| Program | Stage | Linked Evidence |
|---|---|---|
| Low-VOC Coating | Feasibility | 61 experiments |
| Bio-Based Resin | Feasibility | 24 experiments |
| SPF 50 Reformulation | Development | 140 experiments |
| Legacy Tackifier Swap | Development | Stalled 90d |
| Battery Binder | Scale-Up | 3 pilot batches |
| Recycled PET Blend | Discovery | Stalled 45d |
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Illustrative UI: a connected portfolio view in Uncountable
A live portfolio board tracks every project by stage, so a stalled program surfaces the moment it forms.
Deciding what to fund, planning and scheduling the work, tracking time and effort, and rolling up business cases, all on the same data as the live R&D work.
Rank the pipeline against strategy as a live heatmap.
Captures the decision, resourcing, and evidence.
A stall surfaces the day it happens, not at review.
See who's staffed, by person, role, lab, or instrument.
Logged time feeds cost roll-ups and business cases.
Budget versus actual, rolled up across every program.
Workstreams and collisions in one native Gantt view.
AI surfaces what would otherwise wait for review.
Experiments, formulations, QC results, and production records live in one system, so the portfolio reads the same underlying source as the lab.
Connected PPM means project status is derived rather than retyped. Every project links to the formulations, experiments, and QC results behind it.
| Program | Stage | Linked Evidence |
|---|---|---|
| Bio-Based Resin | Feasibility | 24 experiments |
| SPF 50 Reformulation | Development | 140 experiments |
| Legacy Tackifier Swap | Development | Stalled 90d |
Illustrative UI: a connected portfolio view in Uncountable
Configurable phase-gates capture the decision at each gate (go, hold, or kill) together with the resourcing decision and the supporting lab evidence.
| Phase | Entered | Exited | Duration | Approver |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| New | 8/27 3:41p | 8/28 12:55p | 21hrs | M. Reed |
| Approved | 8/28 12:55p | 8/28 12:55p | secs | G. White |
| Obsolete | 8/28 12:55p | 8/28 12:55p | secs | M. Boyer |
| Deleted | 8/28 12:55p | N/A | N/A | N/A |
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Illustrative UI: full traceability of how a project moves through stages
The most expensive project is often the one that quietly stops moving. Milestones track as on track, blocked, at risk, or complete, so a stall is visible immediately rather than at the next review.
| Program | Milestone Status | Signal |
|---|---|---|
| Matte Topcoat V4 | On Track | QC released |
| Legacy Tackifier Swap | Blocked | No activity 90d |
| Battery Binder | At Risk | 3 pilot batches |
Illustrative UI: milestone tracking in Uncountable
A portfolio decision that ignores capacity is a wish, not a plan. Capacity, dependencies, and budgets sit in the same system that holds the decision.
Illustrative UI: a native Gantt view in Uncountable
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The portfolio review should be a live, evidence-based decision, not a stale reporting exercise.
| When… | Without connected PPM | With Uncountable PPM |
|---|---|---|
| A portfolio review happens | ||
| A project stalls | ||
| A gate decision is made | ||
| A business case is built | ||
| Time is logged on a project | ||
| Someone checks project status |
Predictive help is only as good as the data it reads. Once the portfolio runs on real lab data, AI can support specific decisions, but it does not replace leadership judgment.
Surface patterns that precede a stall so teams can intervene earlier.
Use signals across the portfolio to support ranking and trade-off decisions.
Help leadership reason about the pipeline using connected historical data.
AI is decision support, not a decision maker. It can surface a stalled project or suggest a prioritization, but a person still owns the call. An assistant that reads a stale, hand-typed deck will confidently repeat whatever was wrong in the deck, which is why structure and connected data come first.
Judge the system by where its status comes from, not by how its dashboard looks.
Prioritization, time tracking, and business cases run on the same R&D data, making this strongest as an expansion on top of existing Uncountable R&D.
Stages, gates, and deliverables configure to how your team works, no code, so business units can define their own gates while still rolling up org-wide.
Surfaces risks, drafts gate-pack summaries, and flags incomplete records: decision support built on live data, not a stale deck.
One way of working across regions, with roll-ups by product and site, configurable per business unit and connected org-wide.
A credible PPM platform connects to your existing finance and collaboration stack rather than forcing a rip-and-replace.
It's the same Uncountable PPM underneath. It simply configures differently depending on which suite it runs inside, or whether it runs entirely on its own.
Runs inside the R&D suite, deriving status from the same experiments and QC results your team logs.
Runs alongside PLM, so gate decisions carry the product's formulation and spec history.
Anchors a broader suite: deeper cross-site resourcing, dependencies, and financial planning.
Runs entirely on its own, replacing a legacy portfolio and time-tracking stack.
See what portfolio governance looks like when stage-gates read from the same data as the lab, instead of another multi-year, consultant-led migration.
Uncountable's PPM runs prioritization, stage-gates, resourcing, and business cases on the same data as your live R&D work.