Regulatory·Clinical·Grants

What could your regulatory team accomplish if the literature review were already done?

We are workflow specialists for high-value regulatory documents. We produce the literature reviews, SOTA narratives, and evidence synthesis that consume your senior team's capacity, so your team arrives at judgment, not compilation.

This is how our clients work today. You set the strategy. We execute the production. Submission-ready quality.

Scope

Document Categories

We produce, implement, and teach the workflows for high-value documents that share three characteristics: expensive to produce traditionally, expertise-intensive, and quality-critical.

Regulatory Documents

SOTA reports, Clinical Evaluation Reports (CERs), Clinical Evaluation Plans, Post-Market Surveillance documentation, PMCF reports. EU MDR primary; IVDR methodology within reach.

Clinical Documents

Literature syntheses, systematic reviews, clinical study reports, and adjacent evidence-synthesis work supporting regulatory and scientific submissions.

Grant Documents

Research grant proposals and academic submissions that require structured evidence synthesis and rigorous compilation.

Division of labor

We Execute. You Control.

The division of labor for high-value documentation.

Your Team

  • Sets strategy and submission pathway
  • Makes clinical interpretation and risk-benefit decisions
  • Determines what to submit and when
  • Reviews and approves all deliverables
  • Maintains final authority

Our Specialists

  • Execute literature reviews and evidence synthesis
  • Compile technical, clinical, and scientific data
  • Produce submission-ready documents
  • Format to regulatory and scientific standards
  • Work under your strategic direction

The AI Layer

  • Accelerates literature search and extraction
  • Drafts synthesis and compilation
  • Handles repetitive formatting
  • Frees experts for judgment and reasoning

What we are not: regulatory strategy consultants, compliance advisors, or a replacement for your strategic expertise. We stop where strategic regulatory judgment begins. By principle.

Clear roles

Where We Execute. Where You Decide.

Every high-value regulatory document is built from three layers of work. Two are ours to execute. The third is yours by principle.

Compilation

Literature search, screening, extraction, reference management, formatting. Rule-governed and time-intensive. This is where AI, under expert supervision, delivers the most leverage.

We execute against the scope you set.

Synthesis

Evidence narrative, first-pass appraisal, methodology application, regulatory structure. Skilled expert work. We exercise craft judgment here: search strategy design, appraisal calls, structural decisions that hold up against MEDDEV and MDR expectations. This is what separates our output from a junior writer's or a pure-AI tool's.

We execute, craft judgment included.

Strategic Regulatory Judgment

Submission pathway, clinical interpretation tied to product-specific context, risk-benefit decisions, equivalence claims, notified body query response. Requires internal knowledge, product history, and strategic intent that no external partner can possess.

Your team. Your consultants. Never us.

Two kinds of judgment run through a SOTA. We make the craft-level calls, the methodology and execution judgments our track record is built on. You make the strategic-regulatory calls, the ones rooted in product knowledge and pathway context. That line is stable and defensible, which is why in-house teams don't feel replaced and consultancies don't feel undercut.

Approach

Augmentation, Not Verification

Standard "human-in-the-loop" approaches put experts in a passive checking role, rubber-stamping AI output. This creates verification bias and drains the expert's best thinking into rote review.

Our model inverts the relationship. AI handles the repetitive synthesis and compilation that dominate production time. Your clinical and technical specialists apply their full mental capacity to work that actually requires human expertise: strategic reasoning, clinical interpretation, and quality judgment.

Foundational Principles

FP1

Corresponding Expertise

Every human in the workflow has the qualifications to detect the specific mistakes AI makes at their step. No expert is asked to verify work beyond their skill level.

FP2

Incentivized Scrutiny

Workflows reward critical thinking, not rapid approval. Reviewers are actively trained on the cognitive demands of AI-augmented review. Oversight is effective, not merely present.

FP3

Constant Adaptation

We follow the pace of AI evolution, implementing new capabilities as they arrive and assessing the novel risks they introduce. Adaptability is a core competitive advantage.

Multi-Model Architecture

Simplified view Actual pipeline includes additional QA steps

Our workflows run multiple frontier AI models in parallel on every synthesis task. Their outputs are consolidated and cross-checked against each other, then passed through automated QA — citation integrity, rule-based checks, and structural consistency — before any human reviewer sees the material.

This is how we operationalize FP2 in practice. By the time clinical and technical specialists engage with the synthesis, it has already been stress-tested by independent AI perspectives and cleared automated gates. Human oversight goes further because the material arriving for review is more consistent and more traceable.

The diagram above is a simplified view. The production pipeline includes additional pre-processing, intermediate QA checkpoints, retrieval and grounding layers, and feedback loops that are omitted here for clarity.

Evidence

Proven Efficiency

Our portfolio efficiency for SOTA production, disclosed with full methodology.

Portfolio efficiency · SOTA production End-to-end
~ 6
pages of appraised source evidence
per billable hour*
synthesized into the final SOTA
Those six pages are the scientific source articles that survived database search, title and abstract screening, and full-text review. Each billable hour covers the full pipeline, from designing the search to delivering the submission-ready SOTA.
1 billable hour Appraised source evidence
SOTA production rate

Per billable hour, we process approximately 6 pages of appraised source material end-to-end into the final SOTA.*

“End-to-end” spans the full SOTA production pipeline: literature search design, database searches, screening, full-text appraisal, synthesis, drafting, review, and submission-ready formatting. This is the rate for the process as a whole — not for any single step.

* Transparency / methodology

Projects 7 AI-augmented SOTAs
Billable hours 600 across these 7 projects
Literature references 2,428 processed across these 7 projects
Source material 3,452 pages appraised & synthesized across these 7 projects

Figures reflect seven representative SOTAs for different Class III devices, produced through our AI-augmented workflow. Additional SOTAs from the same period are excluded where they are structurally non-comparable (e.g., very narrow re-issues or tightly scoped updates) so these figures reflect end-to-end production work on substantive new SOTAs.

Across these 7 AI-augmented SOTA projects: 600 billable hours, 2,428 literature references processed through our review workflow, resulting in 3,452 pages of appraised source material synthesized into the final SOTA deliverables.

Billable hours reflect the full project pipeline: search design, database searches, screening, full-text appraisal, synthesis, drafting, internal review, and final submission-ready formatting.

Per-project rate pages of appraised source material · per billable hour
Per-project billable hours: 58 120

Per-project billable hours range from 58 to 120. Per-project rate ranges from 2.6 to 15.8 pages of appraised source material per billable hour, reflecting differences in literature complexity, redundancy, and topic maturity. Final scope for any new engagement is confirmed after initial protocol review.

Earlier pre-AI projects are excluded from this portfolio as they are not representative of current operating efficiency.

Track Record

We have delivered CERs and SOTA reports successfully submitted to notified bodies, under client regulatory direction, for medical device companies developing complex, high-risk products. Our methodology is document-category driven, so it applies wherever high-value, synthesis-heavy documents exist.

Who we serve

Built for Teams Where Senior Expertise Is the Constraint

A · Devices

Medical Device Companies

With complex portfolios facing capacity pressure on senior regulatory, clinical, and quality staff.

B · Consultancies

Regulatory & Grant Consultancies

Needing production capacity without hiring. White-label available. We work under your client relationships and strategic direction, not around them.

C · Scale-ups

Scale-ups & Founders

Navigating regulatory pathways on tight capital and timelines.

Industries beyond life sciences follow. The workflows apply wherever documents are expensive to produce, standardized in requirements, and synthesis-heavy in execution.

Engagement

Ways to Work With Us

Choose how deeply we integrate. Many clients evolve across models as their needs shift.

01 Model 1

Service

Done for you

We produce your documents using our AI-augmented workflows. Your team maintains strategic control. Best when you have an immediate document need, capacity constraints on senior staff, or project-based requirements.

02 Model 2

Implementation

Built into your organization

We deploy our AI-augmented workflows inside your organization. You own the system. We provide the processes, tooling integration, and enablement. Best for high document volume and security or IP requirements.

03 Model 3

Training

Transfer the capability

We teach your team to produce high-value documents using AI-augmented workflows with expert oversight protocols. Workshop packages, certification programs, and ongoing coaching.

Ready to Free Your Team for Strategic Work?

Send us a note about your upcoming submissions and your team's capacity constraints. We'll respond with whether our workflows are a good fit.

Email contact@hvdaccel.com

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Tweaks

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