AI strategy, vendor evaluation & governance

Choose it. Govern it. Prove it.

Independent AI strategy, vendor evaluation, and governance for clinical development — led by the architect of the unified eClinical platform behind 1,000+ trials, and built so your AI stands up to QA, a sponsor audit, and a regulator.

Why AI stalls in clinical development

It's rarely the model

22%

of life-sciences leaders have scaled AI. Pilots stall at validation, governance, and sign-off — not at the model itself.

Hard to verify

Vendor claims about validation, accuracy, and compliance are difficult to independently verify without a technical and clinical evaluator on your side of the table.

Guidance still converging

FDA, EMA, and ICH guidance on AI is converging fast but remains partly draft — requiring judgment, not just a checklist, to apply correctly today.

AI strategy & use-case prioritization

Where AI actually creates value in your program

Not every workflow deserves an AI pilot. We help you prioritize the use cases where AI genuinely accelerates — protocol authoring, data cleaning, document generation, biostatistics — and make the build-versus-buy and operating-model decisions that follow.

  • Use-case prioritization against real operational cost and risk
  • Build vs. buy vs. partner, decided case by case
  • The operating model and team structure to run it

"AI drafts. Experts decide. The record proves it."

The principle behind every AI decision we help you make.

Vendor identification & evaluation

A six-step method, not a gut check

1

Requirements & context of use

2

Market scan

3

Scorecard & due diligence

4

Governed proof of concept

5

Contract & validation terms

6

Ongoing oversight

AI governance framework

Risk-tiered, mapped to the standards that matter

Every AI use case gets classified into a risk tier — and every tier maps to the specific frameworks a regulator or auditor will actually ask about.

Operational

Lower risk

Site feasibility, enrollment forecasting — efficiency tools with no direct GxP output.

GxP-adjacent

Moderate risk

Data cleaning, document drafting — informs GxP records but a human reviews before anything is finalized.

GxP-critical

Highest risk

Safety-signal adjudication, benefit-risk decisions — the architectural invariant applies: no AI output becomes a record of decision unsigned.

Mapped against FDA's AI credibility framework, the FDA–EMA AI principles, ICH E6(R3), 21 CFR Part 11, the EU AI Act, ISO/IEC 42001, and the NIST AI Risk Management Framework — so the tier you land in tells you exactly which standard applies.

Not sure where you sit?

Grade your AI governance in 2 minutes.

Ten questions across five domains — risk classification, vendor validation, human sign-off, audit trail, and ownership — with an instant graded result and your two biggest exposures named.

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Validation & assurance dossiers

Evidence a QA team can actually approve

Every AI use case we govern gets an evidence package built for the person who has to sign off on it — your QA lead, an auditor, or a buyer's diligence team. Model and version used, inputs and outputs, the reviewing expert's identity and credentials, the criteria applied, and the final signed disposition — assembled as the work happens, not reconstructed under deadline.

eClinical architecture & integration

Decisions made at IND, not retrofitted later

EDC, RTSM, eCOA, CTMS, and safety database integration — architected by the team that built the industry's first unified eClinical platform. Real-time-readiness decisions belong at IND, when the data architecture is still cheap to change, not after protocol lock.

EDC RTSM eCOA CTMS Safety database integration
Independent — not a vendor, not a reseller

Who leads

Elias Tharakan

Elias Tharakan

Chief Executive & Technology Officer

Architect of the industry's first unified eClinical SaaS platform, powering 1,000+ clinical trials. Twenty years building compliant AI and data-integrity frameworks inside FDA-regulated environments — supported by specialists from our expert network for domain-specific evaluations.

We evaluate vendors against criteria set independently of any commercial relationship, and disclose relevant partnerships to the parties who need to know — see how we handle it on Technology & AI Vendors.

How to start

Educate · Evaluate · Execute

Educate

AI governance fundamentals briefing

Where the FDA, EMA, and EU AI Act guidance actually lands today — for your board and technology leadership.

Evaluate

AI readiness & governance audit

A bounded assessment of your AI exposure and governance maturity — or an eClinical fit-gap analysis for your current stack.

Execute

Framework build-out & fractional CTO

Governance framework build-out, a validation dossier for a specific use case, or ongoing fractional CTO leadership.

See what governed AI delivery looks like in practice →

Choose it. Govern it. Prove it.

Book an AI governance evaluation.

Bring us the vendor decision, the stalled pilot, or the governance gap you need to close.