Trials stall in more than one place at once. A monitor leaves during enrollment, queries pile up ahead of lock, and the process was built for a smaller study. We work at all three levels.
Hire one, build a team, or rebuild the workflow
Three ways to buy the same bench.
Hire a specialist
One person inside your team, on your SOPs and your systems. We source against the protocol, so the CRA who arrives has run your indication at your phase.
Contract placements are on our W-2, with insurance, licensure and mid-study coverage carried by us.
Build a team
A full function delivered as a team, with hiring, retention and backfill carried by us. You keep the science and the sign-off.
Pods run from the United States or Hyderabad on our payroll, priced by the month against a defined scope.
Rebuild a workflow
Validation is where AI pilots in clinical development usually stop. The output holds up and the evidence trail behind it does not.
We take one workflow, measure where the hours go, rebuild it around what can be evidenced, and staff the version that remains.
The five calls we get most
Situations we get called into.
A CRA resigns at sixty percent enrollment
What we sendA monitor who has run the indication at that phase, with a handover window overlapping the outgoing CRA.Start-up is slipping before first patient in
What we sendActivation specialists against the queue, or a pod once the site count justifies it.Queries will not clear before lock
What we sendA data management pod on your EDC, sized to the open query volume.A CRO win needs a team in six weeks
What we sendA functional team on your rate card, with employment and compliance carried by us.An AI pilot cannot clear validation
What we sendA workflow map, a rebuild scoped around what can be evidenced, and the audit trail written during the build.Where we work
The roles change at every stage.
Study start-up
Feasibility, country and site selection, essential document collection
Site activation
Contracts and budgets, IRB and EC submissions, green light to enroll
Enrollment
Recruitment support, screen failure management, site engagement
Conduct and monitoring
On-site and remote monitoring, risk-based oversight, deviation management
Database lock
Query resolution, coding, reconciliation, lock and unblinding
Submission and beyond
Clinical study reports, dossier support, post-marketing safety
Six functions
All six sit inside the trial.
Named on the requisition
Requisitions specify the platform, and we screen on it.
CTMS
Veeva Vault CTMS, Oracle Siebel CTMS, Medidata CTMS
EDC and clinical data
Medidata Rave, Oracle Clinical One, Veeva Vault EDC, Castor
eTMF
Veeva Vault eTMF, Phlexglobal, Montrium
IRT and RTSM
Signant Health, Suvoda, 4G Clinical
Safety databases
Oracle Argus Safety, ArisGlobal LifeSphere, Veeva Vault Safety
Programming and analytics
SAS, R, Python, CDISC SDTM and ADaM, define.xml
Oracle sits at the center of the parent firm. Clinical One, Siebel CTMS, Argus Safety and Oracle Health run alongside the EPM, ERP and OCI practice the rest of Advantra is built on, so an Oracle-shaped clinical requirement lands with people who already know the stack underneath it.
Platform names are stated to describe hands-on experience. No partnership, endorsement or affiliation is implied.
What is squeezing trials right now
Decentralized and hybrid designs
The same teams are covering a wider surface than the protocol was resourced for.
Pods sized to the surface the study actually covers.
Start-up and activation lag
Contracts and essential documents sit in queues while the enrollment clock runs.
Specialists against the queue, or an activation pod once the site count justifies it.
AI that stalls at validation
Pilots produce good output and stop short of an inspector-ready audit trail.
We rebuild around what can be evidenced and write the documentation during the build.
The shift from hourly to functional
Sponsors are consolidating vendors and moving toward buying whole functions.
Monthly pricing with retention and backfill carried by us, under one contract.
Sponsors, CROs and research sites
Often more than one on the same trial.
Sponsors
Large pharma through to a biotech with one asset in the clinic.
CROs
Qualified people against a study already awarded, on your rate card.
Sites and health systems
AMCs and site networks building research operations.
Every study runs on people who have done it before. We find them, employ them, and keep them on the study until it locks.
What sponsors and CROs ask first
Do you work directly with sponsors, or only through CROs?
Both, and often on the same trial. A sponsor may hold the specialist placements while the CRO runs the study, or the CRO may buy the whole function from us against a study they have been awarded.
Are contractors your employees or subcontractors?
Ours. Contract placements are Advantra W-2 employees, with insurance, licensure tracking, compliance and mid-study coverage carried by us. No pass-through vendor sits between you and the person doing the work.
Can you support GxP and computer system validation requirements?
Yes. Validation and audit documentation are part of delivery on both staffing engagements and workflow rebuilds, built to your quality system.
Where does the team sit?
The United States, or our Hyderabad site. Both are Advantra payroll and Advantra employment. Pods can run from either, or split across both where time zone coverage is part of the requirement.
What does a pod cost compared with hourly contractors?
Pods are priced by the month against a defined scope. Contractors are priced by the hour. Which one comes out lower depends on the function, the study size and the coverage model, and we will show you both.
How does a workflow engagement start?
With a map. Two to four weeks inside a single workflow measuring where hours are actually spent, then a scoped rebuild. If the measurement says the process is fine and you simply need people, we will tell you that.
Things you can ask us for today
Ask and we send it.
Role scope and rate benchmark
Send the protocol summary and the gap. We come back with the role, the rate band and a start date.
Vendor qualification pack
Capability statement, entity docs, insurance certificates, employment model.
Workflow assessment outline
What we measure over two to four weeks, what you receive at the end, and the conditions under which we would tell you the process is fine.
Tell us what the study needs
Send the protocol summary, the gap, and the date it has to be covered by. We will come back with the roles, the rates and a start date.