Proof, Not Slides: Inside the 8- Week Protocol Intelligence Pilot

Jul 15
2 min read

The traditional consulting playbook ends a six- month engagement with a beautiful deck. Ours ends week eight with a working system, running on your protocol, in front of your executives.

There’s a reason clinical leaders flinch at "AI transformation." The standard offer is a long discovery, workshop marathons, a strategy deck, and a roadmap whose first deliverable is another roadmap that asks for enormous trust before showing any working software. We designed the Protocol Intelligence pilot as the structural opposite: the smallest possible commitment that produces undeniable, keepable proof.

Week by week

Weeks 1–3 — Build the foundation. Together we select one protocol (ideally one with an amendment history), extract its study knowledge, and construct the clinical knowledge graph: visits, procedures, endpoints, eligibility, sites, documents, vendors and the relationships between them.
Weeks 4–6 — Put intelligence on top. AI Q&A goes live over the graph, with every answer linked to the exact protocol section. Amendment intelligence follows: upload an amendment and see the cross- deliverable impact, mapped. Then operational insights over the modelled study.
Week 7 — Validate. Your clinical, data management, and medical writing leads pressure- test the system against how the study ran. This is where trust is earned or the pilot fails honestly, on one protocol’s worth of time.
Week 8 — Executive demo. Live, on your study, with a quantified business case built from your own portfolio numbers — not industry averages.

What you keep

Five things walk out of the pilot with you, regardless of what happens next: the knowledge graph, the AI assistant, the amendment analysis, an executive dashboard, and the quantified business case. No enterprise integration is required to start; no procurement marathon precedes value.

If it doesn’t prove value by week eight, you’ve lost one protocol’s worth of time not a transformation budget.

And if it works

The pilot is deliberately the entry point to something larger. The graph built in weeks 1–3 doesn’t expire it carries into every amendment on that study, then across a program, then into standardized templates and workflows, until every new protocol onboards by default. Land value in eight weeks; compound it one study at a time.