Arcana
Search engine
Search every Orca1 dataset at once: devices, drugs, safety, compliance, trials, coverage and standards, with natural-language search, filters, charts and maps.
Search, monitor and analyze data from the FDA and regulators worldwide, with AI that cites its sources.
Your single source of truth for life sciences intelligence
Orca1 is a life sciences intelligence platform that combines human expertise, AI and automation. We bring together data on medical devices, drugs and biologics, safety, compliance, clinical trials, coverage, and regulations and standards, from the FDA and regulators worldwide. We curate and connect billions of continuously updated, real-world data attributes, so your team can search, monitor and act from one place.
State-of-the-art. Simple. Powerful.
Search engine
Search every Orca1 dataset at once: devices, drugs, safety, compliance, trials, coverage and standards, with natural-language search, filters, charts and maps.
Active surveillance
Monitor product codes and companies across submissions, adverse events, recalls, UDI, trials, literature and standards, with email alerts when something changes.
Your notebook
Master the waves of information. Keep projects, notes, tags, saved queries and saved record lists together, and find anything fast.
Facilities and automation
Monitor the facilities in your supply chain with the Global Facility Directory and Approved Supplier List. More automations are on the way.
AI copilot
Get answers with citations from OrcaGPT, run deep research with AI Agents, chat with your own documents, or bring your own AI provider.
Integration
Bring Orca1 data into your own applications with the Data API, or connect AI agents such as Claude, ChatGPT and Cursor through MCP.
Public regulatory, safety and compliance data, curated and connected
We collect public data from the FDA and regulators worldwide, then clean, structure and link it, so you can follow a product, a company or a facility across submissions, adverse events, recalls, inspections, trials and more.
Premarket submissions, registrations and device identifiers.
Approvals, labels, products, substances and shortages.
Adverse events and recalls, with safety-signal analytics.
The inspection and enforcement history behind FDA-regulated sites.
Inspections, certificates, licences and registrations beyond the FDA.
Study designs, sites and outcomes, plus the peer-reviewed evidence.
How US insurers cover devices, drugs and procedures.
The rules, guidance and consensus standards behind every submission.
One profile per company, with its activity across the datasets.
Together, we elevate patient outcomes through life sciences intelligence and innovation.
Research predicates and competitors, prepare submissions, and monitor adverse events, recalls and inspections.
Review submissions, adverse events, recalls and inspection outcomes across products, companies and jurisdictions.
Look up the approvals, recalls and reported adverse events for the devices and drugs you use.
Check the recall, safety and shortage history of the devices and drugs you rely on.
Bring curated, linked regulatory and safety data into your own systems through the Orca1 API.
Research regulatory pathways, predicates and inspection histories for your clients.
Find comparable studies, sites and outcomes across ClinicalTrials.gov and the WHO trial registry.
Compare insurer coverage policies and see the devices, trials and literature they reference.
Search and analyze data on devices, drugs, clinical trials and safety for research.
Follow the guidance, standards and regulatory dockets that matter to your members.
Search every dataset and see what others can't
The ocean of knowledge is at your fingertips. Explore billions of structured data attributes from regulators, clinical trial registries, scientific publications, insurers, manufacturer websites and more, for devices, drugs and biologics alike.
Full-text and natural-language search help you search with precision, even when your criteria are complex.
Narrow results with facet filters, chart them, see them on a map and open any record in a detail panel. Save searches and records to Scribe in one click.
Our data science team curates every source for accuracy and relevance, so you can make informed decisions.
Built-in tools
Active surveillance, intelligent insights
Harness structured data to continuously monitor your products, competitors and markets. Scrutinize trends, changes and risks to stay compliant throughout the total product life cycle.
Follow any product code or company across every major source in one view, year by year.
Get an email when something changes, from new clearances and approvals to new adverse events, recalls and trials.
Saved-search and keyword alerts extend monitoring to every Orca1 dataset, including drug approvals, FAERS reports, drug recalls and shortages, inspections and warning letters.
What Argus monitors
Effortless organization for your research
Master the waves of information. Scribe is your notebook inside Orca1: projects, notes, tags, saved queries and saved record lists, all in one place.
Organize your work into projects and capture notes as you research, to build your own personalized library.
Tag anything, then find it again instantly with search.
Save queries and record lists straight from Arcana, and pick up where you left off.
Keep together
Tame the regulatory beast
Automation for regulatory and supply-chain work. Today, Bot powers the Global Facility Directory; more automations are on the way.
Build your Approved Supplier List from FEI-registered facilities and keep watch over the manufacturers, suppliers, labs and CROs you depend on, with their FDA inspection and compliance history in one place.
Available now on Enterprise plans
Coming next
The future of intelligence: humans and machines working together
OrcaGPT is your global regulatory AI copilot. Ask questions in plain language and get answers grounded in Orca1 data and in regulatory and guidance information from many countries, with citations to the sources.
Put Orca1 data to work in your own applications, agents and AI tools
The data your account can access in Orca1 is also available to your own software. Use the Data API in your systems, or connect AI agents through the Model Context Protocol (MCP).
Query Orca1 datasets from your own applications and data pipelines: search records, count and aggregate results, run statistics and export up to 10,000 rows at a time.
Create API keys in your account settings, choose what each key may do, and revoke a key at any time. A new key is shown only once.
One secure web address for server-to-server access to the same search, statistics, document and export capabilities that power Arcana:
https://app.orca1di.com/arcana/v1
Fair-use limits keep it fast for everyone, and Enterprise plans get higher limits.
Connect an MCP-compatible AI tool to Orca1 and your agent can search and analyze Orca1 data directly, with your account's access. Give its API key the MCP permission: that covers every read-only data tool.
https://app.orca1di.com/mcp
Power OrcaAI with your own account at a leading AI provider, or with any OpenAI-compatible endpoint. List your providers in priority order, alongside Orca1's built-in AI; if one is unavailable, OrcaAI automatically falls back to the next.
Each API and MCP call uses API credits from your account, and calls that fail are refunded. AI chat uses AI credits, except when your own AI provider answers.
Need more credits or higher limits? Talk to us.
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Thanks for the demo on how to navigate Orca1’s platform. A comparable search in our current Basil system would have taken me hours, in Orca1 it took minutes.
Safe to say Orca1 is considerably more sophisticated than what I put out and anything the FDA is doing! Your prices are too low!
It took us over 2 weeks to collect the information needed for our MDER paper. Orca1 provided this information in minutes. I am so excited to access all the data on your platform!
I have been using the Orca1 Digital Intelligence Platform for the past year. This has been a great tool to help me with a variety of quality and regulatory activities.
In one case when it seemed certain that a device was going to require a De Novo, the Orca1 platform allowed me to find a predicate device that had similar indications for use and technology, which saved a considerable amount of time for research and both time and money by supporting a 510(k) submission instead of a De Novo.
The tool for reviewing company compliance history including past inspections, warning letters, recalls and adverse events reports allowed fast and useful information to be accessible in preparation for a Due Diligence audit.
Our client, facing their first FDA on-site inspection for a PMA product, was very inquisitive to understand the process and the expectations. As part of the planning stage, we contacted Orca1 to obtain a comprehensive intelligence profile of the assigned investigator. This insightful information empowered us to address potential concerns and navigate the inspection smoothly, resulting in no 483 observations. With this hurdle cleared we can now focus our attention back on bringing this innovative product to market.
Thanks again Orca1
Orca has been an instrumental tool guiding the regulatory strategy of the company. The platform allowed me to effortlessly identify a predicate device that was ultimately used for our FDA Q-sub. Furthermore, the user interface allows you to conduct broad searches in minutes that used to take hours on the traditional FDA website.
Orca1 publications: where stories surface
Food and Drug Administration · Posted Dec 7, 2023 · ID FDA-2023-D-3134-0043
Orca1 Comments - FDA-2023-D-3134, Best Practices for Selecting a Predicate Device to Support a Premarket Notification [510(k)] Submission; Draft Guidance for Industry and Food and Drug Administration Staff
The medical device industry faces challenges with recalls. Our predictive analysis system quantitatively predicts recalls with over 92% accuracy, benefiting stakeholders for proactive safety measures.
Chairman & CEO / MedTech's Top Search Consultant /The Mullings Group Companies/Board Member/Angel Investor/Keynote Speaker
Profile of Joe Mullings
Mr. Regulatory | Former FDA | Fractional Chief Regulatory Officer | Consultant | Medical Device and Combination Product Expert
Profile of David Pudwill
Professor of Medicine | Associate Dean for Academic Appointments | Professor of Family Medicine and Community Health | Cardiology | Duke
Profile of James E. Tcheng, MD
Chief Advisor & Compliance Officer for Aztech Regulatory & Quality, providing consulting services to the medical device industry.
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