Clinical research generates enormous volumes of documents across disconnected systems — protocols, amendments, IRB submissions, trial data, lab notebooks, and publications. No existing tool maps the relationships between these documents automatically. Connections that matter — like the link between a protocol amendment and a subsequent adverse event — are discovered manually, often months after the fact.
A safety signal appears in trial data. The root cause is a protocol amendment made eight months earlier — but the amendment was reviewed by a different team, stored in a different system, and never formally linked to downstream outcomes. The connection is obvious in retrospect, but no tool surfaced it proactively. In clinical research, latent connections aren't just inefficiencies — they're patient safety issues.
Meanwhile, a researcher spends two weeks reviewing literature for a grant proposal, unaware that a colleague in a different lab published a systematic review covering 60% of the same ground last year. And methods that took one team months to optimize are re-derived from scratch in the next lab because experimental notes and negative results aren't discoverable.