Meat traceability software for processors and cutting plants.
Intake → primal → pack → customer, without the paper mountain.
Meat carries the heaviest traceability burden in food: regulatory identity requirements on beef, approval-number obligations, kill-date and lot discipline, and retailers who audit hard because the sector's history demands it. The operational problem is transformation, one incoming carcase or primal becomes many products across many days. Keystone models transformation natively, so lot identity survives cutting, mincing, marinating and packing.
- Intake records with supplier lot, kill/slaughter references and quantities
- Transformations: one input lot → many outputs (primals, trim, mince) with weights that reconcile
- Forward trace from any intake lot to every pack and customer
- Batch-coded dispatch notes and labels in retailer formats
Real screens, from our Public Sandbox.
Every screenshot below is captured from the Public Sandbox demo tenant with sample Irish dairy data. No mockups, no client data, no NDAs.
Transformation is where meat traceability breaks.
A spreadsheet can track a cheese batch that stays one thing. A side of beef does not stay one thing, it becomes striploins, mince, trim for burgers, bones for stock, each processed on different days and dispatched to different customers. Keystone's transformation model records each cutting or processing step as a link: input lots with weights in, output lots with weights out. The yield is visible per transformation, the mass balance closes at every step, and both trace directions survive the whole tree, from a single intake lot to every retail pack it became, or backwards from a customer complaint to the intake it started as.
Built around what meat businesses must evidence.
Processors and cutting plants, not full abattoir compliance suites.
Keystone is the batch traceability, QC and dispatch layer for meat processors, cutting plants and butchery producers supplying retail and foodservice. It is not an abattoir kill-line system or a movement-permit platform, it sits after intake, holding the lot chain your audits and your customers query. Founding partner is an Irish farmhouse dairy; the transformation model was built general because every batch producer eventually splits, blends or reworks lots.
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Questions buyers actually ask.
Can one intake lot become many products?
Does it handle catch weights?
Can we trace to kill date or herd reference?
Is this an abattoir system?
What do audits get?
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