Streamline Sponsor-Supplied Data with AI

CROs often face time-draining complexity when sponsor-supplied clinical trial data arrives in inconsistent formats. Our AI-powered service harmonizes this data rapidly helping clinical operations and data teams accelerate study start-up and reduce rework.

The Problem CROs Are Facing

Sponsor data rarely arrives ready-to-use. CROs receive diverse file formats from sponsors and third-party data providers such as central labs, ePRO vendors, and imaging partners. These files often include

  • Excel files with columns like Subj_ID, HGB (g/dL), Visit Dt, where header formats and naming conventions change unexpectedly.
  • PDF lab result reports labeled with fields like Subject, Hemoglobin, and Visit Date, arranged differently across vendors.
  • Legacy file types such as XML or CSV templates with mismatched data types, embedded formulas, or macros.

Even across studies from the same sponsor, CROs deal with

  • Version control issues (missing fields, renamed headers)
  • Structural changes that break mappings
  • Manual reconciliation to align file formats before data can be loaded into EDC or analytics pipelines

These issues introduce delays, increase quality risks, and consume valuable operational bandwidth.

Who Benefits and How

This solution is designed for CROs who need to streamline study startup, reduce manual reconciliation, and improve data readiness for both internal and sponsor-facing teams. It brings measurable efficiency to areas where delays and friction are most common.

01

Study Startup & Clinical Ops Coordination

  • Faster readiness of sponsor-supplied datasets for protocol use
  • Less manual back-and-forth with sponsors on file formats
  • Fewer downstream protocol deviations caused by inconsistent data
02

Centralized Data & Technical Operations

  • Reduced effort in maintaining brittle data mapping scripts
  • Cleaner hand-offs to EDC or analytics teams
  • Early identification of structural issues or missing fields in source files
03

Operational Excellence & Innovation Units

  • Scalable approach to handling heterogeneous sponsor formats
  • Opportunity to repurpose high-skill staff for strategic tasks
  • AI-enabled efficiencies that reduce burden on already stretched teams

What Our AI-Powered Solution Does

We apply domain-aware AI parsing, structure recognition, and rules-driven transformation to

Auto-extract and validate tabular fields, column headers, and values across Excel, CSV, XML, and PDF

Normalize inconsistent field names and units (e.g., HGB, Hemoglobin, HgB → Hemoglobin (g/dL))

Validate field mappings and flag schema drift

Output analysis-ready files in your required format (e.g., SDTM-like, for internal dashboards, or downstream EDC load)

All without needing fixed templates, macros, or pre-written conversion rules.

This frees up your team to focus on strategy and quality — not formatting fixes.

Manual Vs AI-Driven Workflow

Without Automation

  • Hours spent manually scanning sponsor Excel sheets
  • Risk of missed unit mismatches or renamed variables
  • Struggle with lab PDFs and multi-format vendor files
  • Study start-up delays
  • Repeated work across studies or programs
  • Delays in site activation prep or analysis
  • Lost time due to format changes

With Our AI-Powered Service

  • Auto-parsed & validated in minutes
  • Normalized units & flagged differences
  • Structure learned & parsed with OCR + AI
  • Datasets become load-ready faster
  • AI reuses trained models across similar structures
  • Data becomes analysis-ready faster  improving timeline confidence
  • AI detects schema drift and suggests fixes

Example Use Case : Clinical
Lab Data Intake

Scenario

  • Excel file uses headers like Subj_ID, HGB, Visit Dt.
  • PDF report lists values under Hemoglobin, Visit Date, and Subject - but structurred like a scanned document.
  • Over time, column names in Excel change slightly; the PDF layout shifts.

Challenges

  • EDC mappings break due to subtle changes.
  • Data Management team spends 4–5 hours/week manually realigning headers.
  • Quality control flags misalignment in transferred data.

Our AI Solution

  • Detects header variation and schema changes.
  • Extracts consistent field values from both Excel and PDFs.
  • Aligns and formats data for internal use (e.g., EDC ingestion or analytics).
  • Flags missing or unexpected fields before upload.

Outcome: Study startup timelines improved. Handoff to internal systems becomes seamless.

Why Work With Us?

  • Tailored to Clinical Research unlike generic ETL tools, we support lab, imaging, and eCOA formats
  • No pre-defined templates needed our AI adapts to structure and variation.
  • Partner-style engagement we don’t just provide a tool, we support your data pipeline.
  • Track record in preclinical + clinical workflows.

Let's Collaborate

Let’s discuss how this might help your team reduce delays, streamline data readiness, and simplify sponsor collaboration.