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CONSHOHOCKEN, Pa. — Suvoda, a global clinical trial technology company, announced on October 14, 2026, that its AI assistant, Sofia, is now available for all new clinical trials utilizing Suvoda RTSM/IRT or Suvoda eCOA.

The AI assistant is designed to help sponsors, contract research organizations (CROs), and clinical sites access trial data more quickly and execute authorized system actions within a regulated framework.

According to Suvoda, Sofia is built specifically for the high-stakes, regulated environment of clinical trials, where audit trails and data privacy are critical. Unlike general-purpose AI, Sofia maps user queries to a validated knowledge space developed by subject matter experts. It currently supports over 40 topics.

"Sofia handles the routine operational work so that sponsors, CROs, and sites can focus on the decisions that require their judgment,“ said E.K. Koh, Chief Product Officer at Suvoda. ”We built it with the rigor clinical trials demand because in this environment there is no room for a wrong answer."

For authorized users, Sofia can perform system actions on their behalf after summarizing the action and receiving confirmation. All actions are tracked in an audit trail and governed by existing user permissions.

Early adopters of the tool include Daiichi Sankyo. Dawn Sorenson, Director of the IRT Center of Excellence at Daiichi Sankyo, noted: "The platform's ability to summarize documentation and answer operational questions makes information more accessible and reduces the time spent navigating systems or pulling reports. Tasks that once required multiple steps can now be addressed through a simple conversation, creating meaningful efficiency gains across study operations."

Suvoda stated that Sofia operates under a zero-data retention policy, meaning customer data is not used to train public models. The assistant also supports multiple languages, responding in the language in which a query is asked.

Sofia recently won the PM360 Innovation Award in the Artificial Intelligence category.