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October 23, 2025

Search That Never Tires, Never Ages, Never Gets Bored—Unlike the Rest of Us 

The trouble with life sciences isn’t a lack of information. It’s the shape of it.  SOPs live in SharePoint folders no one’s touched in three years. Clinical protocols are buried in Veeva under five levels of permissions and a sign reading “Beware of the Leopard.” Adverse event documentation hides in PDF attachments, email threads, scanned forms. And regulatory updates? They trickle in from a dozen sources, never in sync, always just late enough to create risk. 

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