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Healthcare

Life-sciences research.
Traceable evidence.

In research, an assertion without a citation is not a weaker claim — it is not a claim at all. That makes retrieval architecture, not model capability, the thing that decides whether a system is usable.

WHAT RESEARCHERS ACTUALLY NEED

The volume of relevant literature in any active area exceeds what a person can read, and the practical consequence is not that researchers miss papers at random — it is that they miss the ones outside their usual search vocabulary. A system that surfaces relevant work phrased differently from how you would have phrased it is doing something genuinely useful.

But only if every statement it makes is anchored to a specific passage in a specific paper. Not a bibliography at the end — a span-level link from the sentence to the source. A researcher's first action on any interesting claim is to check it, and a system that makes that check slow will be abandoned regardless of how good its synthesis is.

The second need is structured extraction across many papers: study populations, endpoints, effect sizes, methods, exclusion criteria, pulled into a table you can sort. This is the work that takes weeks by hand and is where the time actually goes in a systematic review.

WHERE IT HELPS
01

Literature synthesis

Question-answering across a corpus with span-level citation, including internal reports and prior submissions that no external tool can see. The internal corpus is frequently the more valuable half and the one nobody has indexed.
02

Structured extraction

Populations, endpoints, dosing, effect sizes and methods extracted into a reviewable table with links back to the source passage. The systematic-review workload, compressed.
03

Protocol drafting support

First drafts assembled from your own precedent protocols and the applicable guidance, for a human to own and revise. Removes the blank page rather than the expertise.
04

Regulatory document assembly

Locating and organising the evidence that supports a submission section, with the traceability a reviewer will ask for. The assembly is the burden; the writing is the judgement.
THE HONEST LIMITS

The system does not assess study quality. It can extract what a paper reports; whether the study was well conducted is a judgement requiring domain expertise, and presenting an extracted effect size without that judgement invites exactly the wrong kind of confidence.

It does not generate hypotheses that should be trusted without verification. It can surface adjacencies and unexpected connections, which is legitimately useful as a prompt for a researcher's own thinking — and every one needs checking, because plausible-sounding connections are precisely what a language model is best at producing.

And it will miss things. Retrieval recall is never complete, and a system presented as exhaustive when it is not is worse than one presented honestly. We build these with the recall characteristics measured on your corpus and stated, so researchers calibrate their reliance correctly.

HOW A CLAIM STAYS TRACEABLE
EVIDENCE PATH
  1. Question
    from a researcher
  2. Retrieve
    published + internal corpus
  3. Rerank
    precision over recall
  4. Extract
    populations · endpoints · effects
  5. Cite
    span-level link per claim
  6. Nothing found
    say so, do not synthesise
Solid: the grounded path Dashed: the safe failure
Internal reports and prior submissions sit in the same index as published literature — the half no external tool can see.
QUESTIONS
QUESTIONS — 3

Yes, and that is usually where the largest value is. Internal reports, prior submissions and unpublished work are invisible to every external tool, and a unified index over both is something only you can build. It is also the reason these deployments are so often self-hosted.

By constructing the system so that a citation which does not resolve cannot reach the user: answers are generated only from retrieved passages, every claim carries the passage it came from, and a validation step checks that cited spans exist in the source. Fabricated citations are a symptom of generating without grounding, and the fix is architectural rather than a matter of prompting. A claim can still misread a real passage, which is why the span is shown for the researcher to check.

On a self-hosted deployment it does not leave your infrastructure, which for pre-publication and pre-submission material is generally the requirement. This is one of the clearest cases for open weights on your own hardware.

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Cited, or it
does not ship.

Span-level attribution is an architectural decision. Retrofitting it onto a system that generates freely is not really possible.

CASE STUDIES

Shipped work.
Go and check it.

The work we can name, with the live site, our scope and the boundary made explicit. Select a project to see the evidence; each is a full case study, not a logo or a claim.

sonora.com
The Sonora homepage on desktop: a full-bleed dune landscape behind the headline “Transform Your Life with Sound”, with App Store and Google Play download buttons.
sonora.com — homepage, 1440×900 sonora.com →
Live Consumer wellness · Mobile + web

Sonora

Cognitive AI Ltd · 2026

A free sound-wellness app, described by its publisher as AI sound therapy that reads a short vocal sample at the start of a session and generates a soundscape for that moment. We designed and built the website and its backend, produced assets for the iOS and Android apps, and supported the application prototype.

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WHO WE HAVE BUILT FOR

Twenty-one years of applications, platforms and campaigns for names you know.

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