SOP · Lab SLA spike
Objective
Triage a lab incident spike in under 30 minutes, and make sure no SLA drift stays invisible for more than 24h.
Trigger
A Slack alert in #ops-sla fires automatically as soon as one of the following thresholds is crossed over the last 24h.
- Partner SLA under 80% over the rolling week
- More than 5 “result delay” tickets in 24h, same partner
- Any reference range error detected
- Partner silent for more than 48h on a P0 or P1 ticket
Triage · 30 minutes max
- Snapshot · open the dashboard, capture the 3 key metrics (SLA, TAT, dominant incident type) and the geographic concentration.
- Scope · is the spike concentrated on one partner, one centre, one incident type, one time window? If yes, the scope is locked.
- Member risk · filter tickets with medical tag or imminent appointment. These cases go to P0, handled within 1h.
- Likely cause · pick a hypothesis from the two known families: lab operational or Lucis regression. Document in Notion in 3 lines.
- Partner contact · structured message to the account manager with hard numbers, no anecdotes. Template in Notion.
Escalation
Within 2h with no partner reply on a P0, escalate to the Ops lead. Within 24h with no partner action plan, escalate to founders with a one-page note backed by numbers. Any incident affecting a medical decision is notified to the Ops lead immediately, regardless of volume.
Member communication
For every member impacted by an active incident, a proactive message goes out within 4h with an honest status. No ETA is promised until confirmed by the lab. A recap for the member’s doctor is prepared in parallel if an imminent appointment is mentioned.
Incident closure
An incident is closed when SLA stays green for 5 consecutive days, the root cause is documented, and a corrective or contractual action is in place. A short post-mortem is shared in the partner QBR.
Anti-silence
The dashboard runs 24/7 on Metabase, Slack alerts stay active outside business hours. A 5-minute human check is part of the morning ops standup. If no one opens the dashboard for 48h, n8n automatically pings the Ops lead.