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Regulatory & safety intelligence for life sciences From medical devices, drugs and biologics to safety, compliance, clinical trials, coverage and standards, worldwide.

Search, monitor and analyze data from the FDA and regulators worldwide, with AI that cites its sources.

Why Orca1

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.

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.

Argus

Active surveillance

Monitor product codes and companies across submissions, adverse events, recalls, UDI, trials, literature and standards, with email alerts when something changes.

Scribe

Your notebook

Master the waves of information. Keep projects, notes, tags, saved queries and saved record lists together, and find anything fast.

Bot

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.

OrcaAI

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.

API & MCP

Integration

Bring Orca1 data into your own applications with the Data API, or connect AI agents such as Claude, ChatGPT and Cursor through MCP.

The data inside Orca1

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.

Medical devices

Premarket submissions, registrations and device identifiers.

  • FDA 510(k), De Novo, PMA, HDE and Emergency Use Authorizations (EUA)
  • FDA product codes and classification, with regulatory assessment
  • 510(k) predicate trees
  • GUDID (US UDI), EUDAMED (EU) and the GUDID–EUDAMED crosswalk
  • FDA device and establishment registration and listing
  • PMDA approved devices (Japan)
Browse device data in the Orca1 data catalog

Drugs, biologics and vaccines

Approvals, labels, products, substances and shortages.

  • Drugs@FDA approvals and approval documents, including complete response letters
  • Orange Book, DailyMed labels and the NDC directory
  • UNII substances and inactive ingredients
  • FDA approved vaccines and their documents
  • FDA drug establishment registrations
  • Drug shortages (FDA and ASHP)
  • PMDA approved drugs (Japan)
Browse drug and biologic data in the Orca1 data catalog

Safety and postmarket surveillance

Adverse events and recalls, with safety-signal analytics.

  • MAUDE medical device adverse event reports
  • FAERS drug and biologic adverse event reports
  • VAERS vaccine adverse event reports
  • FDA recalls for devices and all other product types, and FDA recall alerts
  • Adverse events, recalls and field safety notices from regulators outside the US
  • Safety signals by device brand and manufacturer, drug and manufacturer, and vaccine and lot
Browse safety data in the Orca1 data catalog

FDA compliance and inspections

The inspection and enforcement history behind FDA-regulated sites.

  • FDA inspections and their classifications
  • Inspection citations by CFR section
  • 483, EIR and CRL documents
  • Warning letters
  • FEI establishment profiles and Compliance Assessment Reports
  • FDA investigator profiles
  • Compliance Program Guidance Manuals (CPGM)
Browse compliance data in the Orca1 data catalog

Global regulators

Inspections, certificates, licences and registrations beyond the FDA.

  • EU
  • UK
  • Canada
  • Switzerland
  • Japan
  • WHO
  • Health Canada inspections, citations, establishments and licences
  • MHRA (UK) GMP and GDP, paediatric investigation plans and e-cigarettes
  • EMA EudraGMDP certificates and inspections, sites and API registrations
  • Swissmedic GMP and GDP
  • WHO prequalification inspections
  • PMDA (Japan) inspections and establishments
  • UK NHS Freedom of Information data
Browse global regulator data in the Orca1 data catalog

Clinical trials and literature

Study designs, sites and outcomes, plus the peer-reviewed evidence.

  • ClinicalTrials.gov studies, with facilities, contacts and outcome measures
  • WHO International Clinical Trials Registry Platform (ICTRP)
  • Peer-reviewed literature
Browse trials and literature in the Orca1 data catalog

Coverage and reimbursement

How US insurers cover devices, drugs and procedures.

  • Aetna
  • Anthem
  • Cigna
  • Empire Blue
  • UnitedHealthcare
  • Clinical and medical coverage policies
  • Linked to the devices, trials and literature they reference
Browse coverage data in the Orca1 data catalog

Regulations, guidance and standards

The rules, guidance and consensus standards behind every submission.

  • FDA guidance documents
  • FDA recognized consensus standards
  • MDCG, IMDRF/GHTF and ICH guidance
  • Regulations and guidance from regulators worldwide
  • FDA dockets on Regulations.gov
  • The Orca1 document library
Browse regulations and standards in the Orca1 data catalog

Companies and facilities

One profile per company, with its activity across the datasets.

  • The Orca1 company index (OMI)
  • FDA device and drug establishments
  • The Global Facility Directory of manufacturers, suppliers, labs and CROs (Enterprise)
Browse companies and facilities in the Orca1 data catalog

Who we serve

Together, we elevate patient outcomes through life sciences intelligence and innovation.

  • Manufacturers

    Research predicates and competitors, prepare submissions, and monitor adverse events, recalls and inspections.

  • Regulators

    Review submissions, adverse events, recalls and inspection outcomes across products, companies and jurisdictions.

  • Patients

    Look up the approvals, recalls and reported adverse events for the devices and drugs you use.

  • Providers

    Check the recall, safety and shortage history of the devices and drugs you rely on.

  • Health information

    Bring curated, linked regulatory and safety data into your own systems through the Orca1 API.

  • Consultants

    Research regulatory pathways, predicates and inspection histories for your clients.

  • CROs

    Find comparable studies, sites and outcomes across ClinicalTrials.gov and the WHO trial registry.

  • Payors

    Compare insurer coverage policies and see the devices, trials and literature they reference.

  • Academic

    Search and analyze data on devices, drugs, clinical trials and safety for research.

  • Industry associations

    Follow the guidance, standards and regulatory dockets that matter to your members.

Argus

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.

Predictive and preventative monitoring

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

  • 510(k), De Novo, PMA and HDE decisions
  • MAUDE adverse events and recalls
  • GUDID and EUDAMED device records
  • US and OUS clinical trials and literature
  • Guidance, standards and OUS adverse events
  • Establishment compliance and investigator profiles

Scribe

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.

Note taking, reinvented

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

  • Projects and notes
  • Tags
  • Saved queries
  • Saved record lists
An open notebook and pencil beside a laptop

Bot

Tame the regulatory beast

Automation for regulatory and supply-chain work. Today, Bot powers the Global Facility Directory; more automations are on the way.

Regulatory systems on the Bot roadmap, including EUDAMED, GUDID, FDA registration and eSTAR

Global Facility Directory and Approved Supplier List

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

  • GUDID submissions
  • eSTAR
  • eSubmitter (MDR / MAUDE reporting)
  • EUDAMED registration
  • FDA registration
  • MDR classification assessment
  • Systematic literature review

These automations are in development and not yet available.

OrcaAI

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.

Intelligence at your fingertips

  • OrcaGPT chat with citations. Ask complex regulatory questions in plain language and get precise answers backed by source citations.
  • AI Agents for deep research. Arcana AI Agents research across Orca1's datasets, from devices and drugs to safety, compliance and trials, and bring the findings together in one answer.
  • Chat with your own documents. Upload your files and interrogate them for compliance gaps and insights, alongside Orca1 data.
  • Bring your own AI provider. Connect OpenAI, Anthropic, Google Gemini, DeepSeek, OpenRouter or any OpenAI-compatible endpoint. Answers from your own provider don't use Orca1 AI credits. How it works
OrcaGPT chat in Orca1, with example questions and search tips

API & MCP for AI agents

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).

Data API

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.

The Arcana gateway

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.

MCP for AI agents and tools

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

  • Claude
  • ChatGPT
  • Cursor
  • Orca1 Teammate

Bring your own AI provider

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.

  • OpenAI
  • Anthropic
  • Google Gemini
  • DeepSeek
  • OpenRouter
  • Any OpenAI-compatible endpoint

Simple, credit-based usage

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.

Pricing

Start free. Upgrade when you need more.

  • Freemium Free, with limited access to Arcana search, so you can explore Orca1 at no cost.
  • Professional Monthly or annual subscription with full Arcana search: natural-language and global search, the Predicate Tree, literature, clinical trials and OUS post-market activity. Argus, OrcaAI and individual 483 and EIR documents are available as add-ons.
  • Enterprise For organizations that need the Bot Global Facility Directory, higher API and MCP limits, and custom terms. Contact us.

Testimonials

A Boutique Law Firm which Specializes in FDA Regulations

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.

Expert Consultant, Ex FDA Deputy Director, Digital Health FDA

Safe to say Orca1 is considerably more sophisticated than what I put out and anything the FDA is doing! Your prices are too low!

A Leading Graduate Medical School

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!

A Full-Service Consulting Business for the Medical Device Industry

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.

One of the World's Top Law Firms

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

An Early-Phase Medical Device Inventor and Manufacturer

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.

Benefits

Risk Profile

  • Proactively identify risks: Uncover potential safety concerns, adverse events, or quality issues early on, mitigating threats before they become major problems.
  • Risk scores: Orca1's predictive analysis tools provide device-specific risk scores, highlighting areas for attention and aiding in prioritization.
  • Risk trends: Track risk scores over time, offering insights into improving device safety and overall portfolio health.

Active Surveillance

  • Real-time awareness: Get notifications for emerging issues related to your products, competitors, or relevant technologies.
  • Customized alerts: Define precise parameters for surveillance, filtering out noise and focusing on signals that matter most to your organization.
  • Comprehensive monitoring: Track approvals, regulatory actions, adverse events, recalls, literature, clinical trials, UDIs, and more, across global sources.

Regulatory Submissions

  • Efficient predicate searches: Easily find relevant predicates and build streamlined regulatory arguments with extensive reference resources.
  • Streamlined clearance and approval: Utilize historical data and insights to increase submission success and mitigate approval delays.
  • Global regulatory expertise: Navigate multiple regulatory frameworks to ensure international compliance.

Product Design and Development

  • Improve product safety: Integrate historical data and risk insights directly into the design process to address potential issues proactively.
  • Innovation insights: Access a broader knowledge base for design breakthroughs and novel regulatory strategies.
  • Accelerate time-to-market: Informed by regulatory landscapes, reduce rework and ensure efficient submission pathways.

Competitive Research

  • Market landscape understanding: Deep-dive into competitor products, regulatory pathways, approvals, and safety profiles.
  • Benchmark your products: Compare your performance to others in the field, identifying strengths, weaknesses, and competitive gaps.
  • Trendspotting: Detect shifting regulatory requirements, industry trends and emerging technologies for long-term strategic planning.

Quality Assurance

  • Comprehensive inspections data: Analyze 483s, warning letters, and other inspection documents to avoid similar violations within your organization.
  • Compliance confidence: Compare device classification and regulations against similar devices to verify appropriate practices.
  • Data-driven remediation: Identify systemic quality issues and develop targeted action plans with insights from across the industry.

Due Diligence & M&A

  • Comprehensive assessments: Quickly but thoroughly evaluate target companies or acquisition candidates on the strength of their product portfolio.
  • Risk quantification: Understand regulatory liabilities, quality risks, and product safety profiles related to target products.
  • Informed valuation: Make data-backed decisions about investment values, leveraging the historical market information on Orca1.

AI-Powered Insights

  • Faster research: OrcaGPT utilizes natural language processing for more intuitive searches, delivering tailored answers with verifiable reference links.
  • Customizable searches: Ask for highly custom arrangements of information allowing for deeper and otherwise unattainable insights.
  • Data-driven decision making: Cut through complexity with advanced analytics, predictive models, and AI-generated summaries.

Publications

Orca1 publications: where stories surface

FDA Public Submission Comments - Selecting a Predicate Device

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

Recall and Predictive Trends Analysis in Orca1

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.

Meet our advisors

Joe Mullings

Joe Mullings

Chairman & CEO / MedTech's Top Search Consultant /The Mullings Group Companies/Board Member/Angel Investor/Keynote Speaker

Profile of Joe Mullings

David Pudwill

David Pudwill

Mr. Regulatory | Former FDA | Fractional Chief Regulatory Officer | Consultant | Medical Device and Combination Product Expert

Profile of David Pudwill

James E. Tcheng, MD

James E. Tcheng, MD

Professor of Medicine | Associate Dean for Academic Appointments | Professor of Family Medicine and Community Health | Cardiology | Duke

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Joseph Azary MBA CQA CMDA

Joseph Azary

Chief Advisor & Compliance Officer for Aztech Regulatory & Quality, providing consulting services to the medical device industry.

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