The first proposal automation platform built specifically for clinical trials.
DataCompass Navigator automates your RFPs, RFIs, questionnaires, and vendor qualification forms — while every submission builds your presence on the DataCompass Marketplace, where sponsors search for partners by clinical expertise, not brand size.
From protocol to partnership.
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.
What makes Navigator unique
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.
Marketplace
Be found by the sponsors looking for you.
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.
When sponsors search for CRO partners today, most boutique CROs 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.
Why this matters now
SEO & AEO rewarded content.. the Expertise Model rewards competence
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 Navigator for the problems we lived ourselves.
Navigator is 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
We're building the sponsor side of the Marketplace — protocol upload, structured RFP generation, and matched CRO discovery. If you'd like early access or want to share input on what we’re building, we'd love to hear from you.
For sponsors
The DataCompass Marketplace
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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