Demo Access and Limits
0.6 trial
This page describes the qualified 0.6 trial. It is an evaluation environment for supplied and registered reference data, not a production environment for confidential or regulated customer data.
Demo access is intended to be easy to evaluate with colleagues through their own approved accounts. The goal is to let a spectroscopy team try SpectraSherpa without a sales-heavy or IT-heavy first step.
Account Activation
Use the published trial link supplied by Spectra Scientific. Signup requires a single-use six-digit passcode delivered to the submitted email address. The former shared access-code flow is retired and must not be used or documented. Activated demo accounts are individual accounts; passwords and email passcodes must not be shared.
What Limits Do
The demo limits protect the hosted service:
- workflow execution limits
- Sherpa Advisor interaction limits
- server-issued starter-dataset custody
- session expiry
- idle-account cleanup
Activated-Demo Defaults
The activated trial uses these per-user defaults:
| Limit | Default |
|---|---|
| Workflow executions | 10 per rolling hour |
| Workflow executions | 50 per rolling 24 hours |
| Sherpa interactions | 50 per rolling hour |
| Sherpa interactions | 1000 per rolling 24 hours |
| General customer scientific input | Not accepted |
| Registered reference input | Exact reviewed files acquired from the provider |
| Session expiry | 24 hours |
| Inactive demo-account cleanup | 7 days |
The free trial supplies the Lavender Essential Oil starter and offers one link to browse Eigenvector's catalog in a separate browser tab. The scientist downloads a supported file independently from the provider, then uses the corresponding import card in Sherpa; individual dataset cards do not link to provider files. Hyperspectral-image datasets are not listed because the demo does not offer a guided HSI workflow or analysis starter. The separately qualified expert local DSO image-cube → PARAFAC path does not broaden trial ingress. Sherpa accepts only the exact reviewed file size and SHA-256; a renamed exact file is valid, while every other file is refused and not retained. Spectra does not proxy, cache, mirror, or retrieve the provider download.
The trial still refuses general raw files, prepared sidecars, sample tables, collection definitions, project/model imports, external sources, and API prediction matrices. A successfully admitted reference is available for normal plots, analysis, workflow execution, and derived results. Normal workflow, Python, notebook, project, dataset, result, report, figure, and Campaign Review Package exports remain available. Portable exports record the external provider identity and explain how to rebind a local downloaded file; they do not embed the registered provider source. Sherpa also refuses a direct raw download of that source. Admitted data and derived trial work are deleted with the trial workspace.
The registered-reference selector is not a legal-rights oracle. By selecting a file, the user confirms that they have the right to process it. Dataset cards attribute the provider and do not imply provider endorsement.
Want to evaluate with your own data?
The public trial does not accept customer spectra. To work with your own data, use one of these supported tiers:
- Run Local OSS on your own machine — no account, no upload limits, and your data never leaves your computer.
- Subscription Cloud or Enterprise Hybrid — contact Spectra Scientific for hosted customer-data or customer-controlled-custody evaluation.
Good Demo Practice
Use the supplied starter or an exact provider-acquired registered reference to confirm plots, metrics, campaign review, and DAG behavior. Do not attempt to send confidential, regulated, export-controlled, irreplaceable, or unregistered customer data to the public trial.