Clinical Operations

Agentic AI for clinical operations that QA will sign off onagentic AI

Trials run on documentation, not just data. We deploy agents that activate sites, chase queries, and draft safety narratives inside your validated systems — every action attributable, time-stamped, and audit-ready.

  • GCP & 21 CFR Part 11 by design
  • Inside your VPC — PHI never leaves
  • Validated EDC/CTMS/eTMF integrations
  • Human sign-off on every regulated record
$2.6B
average cost to bring one drug to market
30%
of trial timelines lost to site activation & query lag
Part 11
compliant audit trails on every agent action
24/7
query and reconciliation cycles, supervised
// the operational reality

The bottleneck isn't the science. It's the paperwork around it.

A modern Phase III runs across dozens of sites, three EDCs, an eTMF, a CTMS, and a safety database that rarely agree with each other.

Coordinators spend their days reconciling case report forms against source documents, chasing investigators for overdue queries, and re-keying the same enrollment numbers into four systems. None of that work moves the science forward — but a missed query or a stale TMF document is exactly what a sponsor audit or an FDA inspection flags first.

The instinct is to throw more CRAs and data managers at the problem. The cost scales linearly and the timelines don't improve. The real leverage is in the structured, rule-bound, endlessly repetitive handoffs between systems — precisely the work an agent does well, provided it operates under GCP discipline and leaves a trail QA can defend.

// agent use-cases

Where agents earn their keep in the clinic

Narrow, high-frequency workflows with clear rules and clear owners — automated end to end, with a human on the regulated steps.

// the engagement

How we deploy without breaking validation

Compliance is the design constraint from the first call — not a clean-up step at the end.

01

Map & risk-rate

We map your study workflows and risk-rate each one, separating GxP-critical steps from the manual glue we can automate first.

02

Validate

We build under GAMP 5, generate IQ/OQ/PQ artifacts, and define the human approval gates your SOPs require.

03

Deploy in-perimeter

Agents run inside your validated VPC or on-prem, integrated to your EDC, CTMS, and eTMF via change-controlled connectors.

04

Monitor & extend

We track query cycle time, TMF completeness, and exception rates, then expand to the next workflow as trust compounds.

// compliance is the architecture

Built for the inspection you haven't scheduled yet

Every agent decision is recorded in an ALCOA+ audit trail — attributable to the agent and its supervising human, contemporaneous, original, accurate, and complete. There's no black box: you can replay why an agent drafted a given query or flagged a given document, down to the source record it cited.

High-stakes actions never auto-complete. Closing a query, finalizing a safety narrative, or marking a TMF document final requires an electronic signature from the qualified human who owns that step. The agent does the assembly; your team retains the judgment and the accountability.

  • ALCOA+ audit trails on every action
  • 21 CFR Part 11 electronic signatures
  • GAMP 5 validation deliverables (IQ/OQ/PQ)
  • Role-based access and full decision lineage

Manual CRO workflow vs. an Automatic.co agent

Same regulatory bar. A fraction of the cycle time.

The manual wayAn Automatic.co agent
Query turnaroundDays of back-and-forth emailDrafted and routed in minutes, human-approved
TMF gapsFound during pre-inspection scrambleSurfaced continuously, in real time
ReconciliationCoordinators re-key across systemsSynced automatically across EDC/CTMS/safety
Audit trailReconstructed after the factALCOA+, captured as the work happens
Scaling a studyHire more CRAs and data managersAdd sites without adding headcount

Frequently asked questions

Are these agents 21 CFR Part 11 and GxP compliant?

They're built for it. Every agent action is captured in an attributable, contemporaneous, time-stamped audit trail, validation artifacts are generated as part of the build, and electronic signatures gate any record a human must approve. We deliver the IQ/OQ/PQ package your QA team needs to sign off.

Will agents make clinical decisions or alter source data?

No. Agents draft, reconcile, flag, and route — they never overwrite source data or render medical judgment. A coordinator, monitor, data manager, or safety physician approves anything that touches a regulated record, and that approval is logged with the underlying reasoning.

How do you handle PHI and patient privacy?

We deploy inside your validated environment — your VPC or on-prem — so PHI and source documents never leave your perimeter. Agents run under HIPAA-aligned controls with role-based access, de-identification where required, and BAAs in place before a single record is touched.

How does this fit our existing EDC, CTMS, and eTMF?

Agents work through your existing stack — Medidata Rave, Veeva Vault, Oracle, IQVIA, or a custom EDC — via validated integrations. We don't ask you to rip and replace; we automate the manual reconciliation and handoffs between systems you already run.

Related industries & capabilities

Automation that travels well across regulated, document-heavy operations.

Bring one study workflow. Leave with a validated plan.

A single working session to map your highest-friction clinical ops workflow and the compliant path to automating it.