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Document Intelligence — audit-ready data from your regulated documents

Document Intelligence builds AI pipelines that read, extract and check your regulated documents — adverse event reports, safety literature, trial master files, protocols and SOPs — with every output routed to a human for review before it counts.

Human review built inPilot on your documents in 4 weeksGAMP 5 validation-ready
Source document
From: site.coordinator@…
Subject: Patient report

A 62-year-old female patient on Drug X 20 mg daily was hospitalised on 02-Jul after experiencing severe dizziness and syncope. Reporter is the site physician. Patient recovering.
Extracted case
PatientFemale, 6298%
Suspect drugDrug X, 20 mg QD97%
Event (MedDRA)Syncope; Dizziness95%
SeriousnessHospitalisation88%
Routed to case processor for review & approval
How this solution helps you

Your experts review shortlists, not haystacks

Reading, extracting and re-typing is where document-heavy teams lose their week. The pipelines do that part; your qualified staff verify and approve — which is the part that actually needs them.

The working day today

  • PV staff re-type adverse event details from emails into the safety database, case by case
  • Literature reviewers read thousands of abstracts to find a handful of relevant cases
  • TMF completeness is checked manually — usually in a panic before an inspection
  • Backlogs and seasonal spikes are absorbed with overtime or outsourcing
  • Data quality varies with workload, fatigue and who did the entry

With this solution

  • Cases arrive structured and MedDRA-suggested — processors review and approve
  • AI screens the full volume and flags candidates; reviewers assess a shortlist
  • TMF quality checks run continuously; findings surface when they’re cheap to fix
  • Pipelines absorb volume growth and spikes at the same turnaround
  • Every extraction is confidence-scored and traceable to its source text

What that means in productivity, time and money

Every pipeline is piloted against your own ground truth — accuracy, throughput and turnaround measured before you commit.

Productivity
3–5× more throughput per reviewer

When AI does the reading and structuring, each qualified person processes multiples of their manual volume, at higher consistency. Example: a literature reviewer covers several times the citations by assessing an AI-flagged shortlist instead of screening everything.

Time
45–60 minutes per case → minutes of review

Case intake, screening triage and TMF checks compress from hours to minutes — and regulatory reporting clocks gain their margin back. Backlogs stop being a standing agenda item.

Money
Lower cost per case, per document, per check

Case processing consumes 60–70% of a typical PV budget, with volumes growing ~10–15% a year. Pipelines absorb that growth without matching headcount or outsourcing spikes — and one avoided late-report finding can exceed the cost of the pipeline.

Figures are indicative of typical industry workloads. Your pilot establishes your actual baseline and measured return before any rollout decision.

What we build

Six pipelines, one pattern: AI reads, your experts approve

Each pipeline is scoped to one document type and one decision — so it can be measured, validated and trusted.

Pharmacovigilance

Adverse Event Intake

Extracts patient, reporter, drug and event details from emails, call transcripts and forms; suggests MedDRA coding and seriousness; detects duplicates — then queues the structured case for your processor’s review.

Why it matters: case processing consumes 60–70% of most PV budgets.

Pharmacovigilance

Safety Literature Screening

Screens journal articles and abstracts for adverse event mentions of your products, extracts the relevant details and prioritises ICSR candidates — replacing manual screening of thousands of citations a week.

Why it matters: literature monitoring is a regulatory obligation under EU GVP and FDA rules.

Clinical Operations

TMF Quality Checks

Continuously audits your trial master file for missing, misfiled, unsigned or expired documents against your TMF reference model — so findings surface now, not during inspection prep.

Why it matters: TMF completeness is one of the most common inspection findings.

Quality & Regulatory

Protocol & SOP Review

Checks protocols and SOPs for internal inconsistencies, conflicting requirements between documents, and the impact of regulatory changes on your procedure set.

Why it matters: a single protocol amendment can cost a sponsor hundreds of thousands.

All departments

Legacy Archive Digitisation

Converts paper and scanned PDF archives — batch records, correspondence, historical study files — into structured, searchable data with OCR, classification and metadata extraction.

Why it matters: retention obligations run for decades; retrieval shouldn’t take days.

Custom

Your document, your pipeline

Medical information letters, contracts, batch records, submission dossiers — if your team spends hours reading a document type, we can likely build a pipeline for it. Bring us the bottleneck.

Start here: a scoping call to identify your highest-volume document pain.

Platform capabilities

Built into every pipeline as standard

The features quality and PV teams tell us they can't work without.

OCR & handwriting

Reads native PDFs, scans, faxes and photographed forms — including handwritten entries, flagged with lower confidence.

Confidence scoring

Every extracted field carries a confidence score. Anything below your threshold is automatically queued for human review.

Source traceability

Each data point links back to the highlighted passage it came from, so reviewers verify in one click — and auditors can too.

Duplicate detection

Identifies when the same case, article or record arrives twice through different channels, before it creates rework downstream.

Scales with volume

Processes ten documents or ten thousand with the same turnaround — backlogs and seasonal spikes stop being a staffing problem.

System integrations

Approved data flows to your safety database (E2B), eTMF, QMS or data warehouse via API — no re-typing between systems.

Multilingual documents

Extracts from source documents in major European and Asian languages, with the original text preserved alongside.

Dashboards & metrics

Live visibility of throughput, accuracy, review queues and turnaround times — the numbers you’ll show your management and your inspectors.

How every pipeline works

AI does the reading. People make the decisions.

1

Ingest

Documents arrive from email, DMS, scans or uploads.

2

Extract

AI reads and structures the content, field by field.

3

Check

Rules and confidence scoring flag anything uncertain.

4

Review

Your qualified staff verify, correct and approve.

Human-in-the-loop
5

Commit

Approved data flows to your safety database, TMF or QMS — fully logged.

4 wksto a pilot on your real documents
100%of outputs human-approved before commit
Everyextraction traceable to its source text
Compliance by design

Built the way your inspectors expect systems to be built

Whitehall has taught GxP compliance for over two decades. That thinking is in every design decision.

Validation

GAMP 5 (2nd Ed.)

Requirements, risk assessment, test evidence and traceability delivered with every pipeline.

Oversight

Human-in-the-loop

No extracted data enters a GxP system without qualified review and approval. Low-confidence fields are always flagged.

Integrity

ALCOA+ audit trails

Every extraction, correction and approval is attributable and time-stamped, with a link back to the source document.

Privacy

GDPR & data residency

Patient and commercial data processed in your approved region. No training on your data.

FAQ

Questions document owners ask us first

How accurate is the extraction?

It depends on the document type, and we never ask you to take it on faith. Every pilot starts with a baseline measurement on your real documents against your team’s ground truth. Fields below your agreed confidence threshold are always flagged for human review — the system is designed so that accuracy limitations reduce speed, never data integrity.

Does this replace our case processors or CTAs?

No — it removes the reading and re-typing so they can spend their time on assessment and decisions. The review step is mandatory by design: your qualified staff remain the approvers of record for everything that enters a GxP system.

What document formats can it handle?

Emails, PDFs (native and scanned, via OCR), Word documents, images of forms, spreadsheets and structured exports. Handwritten content is supported with lower confidence and is routinely routed to human review.

Can it integrate with our safety database, eTMF or QMS?

Yes — pipelines deliver approved data to your existing systems (for example via E2B for safety databases, or API/import formats for eTMF and QMS platforms). Integration scope is agreed during the pilot.

How is a pipeline validated?

Each pipeline ships with a GAMP 5 (Second Edition) validation package: user requirements, functional risk assessment, test scripts with your documents, a traceability matrix and a periodic review plan — plus support writing the SOP that governs its use.

What does the 4-week pilot involve?

You choose one document type and provide a representative sample. We build the pipeline, measure accuracy against your ground truth, and demonstrate the human review workflow — so you have real performance numbers before committing to a deployment.

Bring us your most painful document pile

In a 30-minute call we'll identify your highest-volume document bottleneck and scope a 4-week pilot on your real documents — with accuracy measured against your own team's ground truth.

Scope a pilotNo obligation · NDA available · measured results before you commit