Uniting the Clinical Trial Services Market
The clinical trial services search and selection process is broken. We created the DataCompass Marketplace because as clinical operations veterans we know how hard it is for sponsors to find and engage the right partners for their studies.
The result is poor fit, wasted investment, and unnecessary delays in bringing life-changing therapies to the patients who need them.
We set out to build a platform to change that. Join us.
From Protocol to Partnership
For Sponsors
One platform to manage your CRO and vendor engagement process from search to selection. Connecting with trusted partners based on clinical expertise and experience, not stale web searches.
The DataCompass Marketplace
For CROs & Vendors
One platform to tell your unique story, driven by your actual activities, not the limits of your marketing budget. Engineered to make you more discoverable as it makes you more efficient.
One platform solving two problems
For Sponsors
You need a specialist, not just a name everyone knows.
• Same five companies come up in every search, regardless of indication, phase, or patient population.
• The right specialist isn't in your network and doesn't show up anywhere you're looking.
• By the time you write an RFP, the shortlist is already set.
For CROs & Vendors
Win more business without rebuilding everything from scratch.
• Every RFP means hunting for last year's content and rebuilding from scratch.
• Sponsors searching before they write an RFP can't find you.
• BD time goes to proposals instead of conversations.
When sponsors search for partners today, most specialist vendors don't appear. Not because they lack capability, but because AI search rewards content volume and brand scale. We built the Expertise Model to change that.
AI search is making the problem worse, not better
SEO & AEO rewarded content.. the Expertise Model rewards competence
What makes DataCompass unique
Unlike traditional web searches or industry directories, the CRO and vendor profiles on the DataCompass Marketplace are powered by the actual activities they’re engaged in. As proposals are built and RFIs are responded to in Navigator, the profile is dynamically updated on the Marketplace. This means stronger real-time signals and better matches for the unique requirements of the clinical trial.
DataCompass Navigator
Your institutional knowledge, working for you.
Navigator ingests your RFPs, RFIs, questionnaires, and compliance forms. It matches every question against your library of pre-approved content, locks approved answers so AI never rewrites regulated material, and fills only the genuine gaps. Purpose-built for clinical research, not a general RFP tool adapted for trials.
DataCompass Marketplace
Better matches for better outcomes
Every submission automatically builds your Discovery Score — a real-time measure of your expertise across therapeutic areas, phases, and geographies. Sponsors on the DataCompass Marketplace search by clinical depth, not brand size. Your profile strengthens every time you work.
Built by people who've worked inside clinical research.
Our team brings experience from across the clinical trial industry — including organizations like Labcorp, Genentech, AbbVie, BioMarin, Gilead, and Pfizer. We built DataCompass for the problems we’ve lived ourselves.
Built to SOC 2 Type 1 specifications with HIPAA, CFR Part 11, and GDPR considerations throughout.
Ready to try it for free?
3 RFPs
5 questionnaires
60 days
No credit card required
Clinical trial proposals are broken. Not because teams aren't good enough — because the tools weren't built for this.
The problem
40 - 80 hours
The time a thorough clinical trial RFP response takes a mid-size CRO. A team doing ten proposals a month is committing ten full work weeks every month just to proposals.
Starting from scratch
Every submission rebuilds content that already exists — capability statements, methodology sections, compliance answers — because there's no system that locks and reuses approved content.
Invisible to sponsors
When a sponsor opens ChatGPT and asks which CROs specialize in their indication, most boutique CROs don't appear. Not because they lack capability — because their expertise isn't structured in a way that surfaces.
Latest insights from the DataCompass blog
The Hidden Cost of Starting Every Proposal From Scratch
The proposal-from-scratch habit is universal in clinical research, but most CROs have never calculated its true cost — not just in time, but in quality variance, institutional knowledge loss, and the opportunity cost of every senior hour spent hunting for last year's methodology section.
Why Your CRO Doesn't Show Up When Sponsors Ask ChatGPT
Boutique CROs were already structurally disadvantaged in traditional search. AI-generated discovery has made that disadvantage binary — you are either in the corpus AI models draw from, or you are invisible. The response is not more SEO; it is building presence in purpose-built discovery infrastructure where depth beats brand equity.
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