Skip to main content

The intelligence platform for life sciences Regulatory, quality, safety, clinical, commercial and supply chain data from the FDA and regulators worldwide, connected by product, company and facility.

Search every dataset at once, ask AI that cites its sources, and monitor the products, companies and facilities your business depends on.

Free for everyone in life sciences: the network, jobs, Workspace and a first look at the data.

What people say about Orca1

Safe to say Orca1 is considerably more sophisticated than what I put out and anything the FDA is doing! Your prices are too low!
Expert Consultant, Ex FDA Deputy Director, Digital Health FDA

The platform

From a question to a decision, in one place

Ask in plain language. Get answers that cite their sources.

AI Chat answers from Orca1 data and from regulations, guidance and standards from many countries, and shows its steps and its sources, so you can check every answer.

  • AI Chat with citations. Ask complex regulatory questions in plain language and get precise answers backed by source citations.
  • Web search in your answers. AI Chat can also read the web when the question needs it, and shows you what it read.
  • Your own AI provider. Connect your own account at a leading AI provider, and AI Chat keeps working when the included AI for the month is used.

On Pro and Enterprise

AI Chat in Orca1: an answer with a table, beside its sources and steps: the time taken, the steps and the dataset it used

A finished report on any company, site or product

Choose a report and its subject. The facts are computed from the data and open to their records, and the AI's writing is checked against them.

  • A library by area: compliance, devices, drugs and vaccines, clinical research, people and prices.
  • Every report is kept as versions you can open again, and you can follow a report to get new versions.
  • Download a report as PDF or Word, and share it with your team.

On Pro and Enterprise

The AI Reports library in Orca1: report types by area, each with what it answers and its subject

Know the moment something changes

Watch the product codes and sites your business depends on, and get an email when something changes.

  • Product Monitoring. Watch an FDA product code across submissions, adverse events, recalls, device identifiers, standards, guidance, trials and literature, year by year.
  • Facility Monitoring. Keep a watch list of the FDA-registered sites you depend on, your own and your suppliers', and see which have new inspections or warning letters.
  • Product Code Finder. Browse FDA product codes by review panel or medical specialty, and open the submissions behind them.
  • FDA eSTAR. Fill FDA's eSTAR as a team, with answers proposed from the data, electronic signatures and an audit trail. An Enterprise add-on.
Product Monitoring in Orca1: an FDA product code's adverse event reports as a chart by year, with the records under it and a tab for every source

Keep what you find. Share it with your team.

Workspace is where your Orca1 research lives: saved searches with alerts, pinned records, notes and links, in projects you share with the people you work with.

  • Save any search in one click and get an email when it finds new results, as often as you choose: daily, weekly, monthly or quarterly.
  • Pin records from any dataset, write notes with links and record cards, and keep web links alongside them.
  • Put items in projects, share a project or a single item, and choose who can view, comment or edit.
Workspace in Orca1: a project shared with a colleague, holding saved searches with their alerts, pinned records, a link and a note

For enterprise teams

Every team, working from the same facts

From the first regulatory strategy to the next supplier audit, Orca1 gives each team its answers and the whole company one picture.

Regulatory affairs

Find the predicate, the precedent and the pathway. See how comparable products reached the market, across regulators, with the guidance and standards behind them.

Quality and compliance

Know a site before the inspector arrives. Inspection histories, citations, 483s and warning letters for your facilities, your suppliers and your competitors.

Safety and postmarket

Watch adverse events and recalls across devices, drugs and vaccines, with safety-signal analytics and alerts on the products you monitor.

Clinical and medical affairs

Find comparable studies, sites and outcome measures in trial registries, alongside the peer-reviewed literature.

Market access and commercial

See how payers cover devices, drugs and procedures, and follow industry payments and procedure and drug prices, with the Commercial module.

Business development and investment

Due diligence in minutes: a company's products, facilities, approvals and compliance history in one profile.

Also for consultancies, law firms, CROs and research groups, who use the same platform for their clients and studies.

The data inside Orca1

Official data from regulators worldwide, 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.

250+ datasets, linked by product, company and facility

Search in Orca1: one search across every dataset, with the number of results in each

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)

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)

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

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)

Global regulators

Inspections, certificates, licenses 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

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

Commercial and market access

How US payers cover devices, drugs and procedures, and what is paid for them.

  • Aetna
  • Anthem
  • Cigna
  • Empire Blue
  • UnitedHealthcare
  • Clinical and medical coverage policies
  • Linked to the devices, trials and literature they reference
  • Industry and research payments, and procedure and drug prices (Commercial module)

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

Companies and facilities

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

  • The Orca1 company index (OMI)
  • FDA device and drug establishments
  • Company and facility pages that bring every linked record together

Our data science team curates every source for accuracy and relevance, so you can make informed decisions.

Enterprise

Ready for your whole organization

The full platform for every team, run by your organization, with the controls your security, IT and procurement teams ask for.

Book a demo

Your organization, your rules

Seats, roles and team groups. Manage every account and its usage from one place, with limits sized for your team.

Single sign-on

Require everyone at your domain to sign in with your company's Microsoft or Google accounts.

Audit trail, retention and legal hold

One trail of who did what and when for your administrators, retention policies for your organization, and legal holds that keep what must be preserved.

AI on your terms

More included AI, pooled across your team, and your organization's own AI and web search providers whenever you prefer them.

The full depth of the data

All details with Orca1 analytics and scores, records compared side by side, what changed over time, and downloads to Excel.

Onboarding, support and procurement

Onboarding for your teams, priority support, and invoices and purchase orders the way your company buys.

Enterprise add-on

Orca1 API and MCP

Put Orca1 data to work in your own applications and AI tools, with the access your organization has in Orca1.

Through the Model Context Protocol (MCP), your AI agents search, count and analyze Orca1 data directly.

Talk to us about API access

Enterprise add-on

FDA eSTAR with Part 11 controls

Fill FDA's eSTAR as a team: Orca1 proposes answers from its data, reviewers check, approvers sign electronically and an audit trail records every step, with controls designed to support 21 CFR Part 11.

See it in a demo

Network and jobs

The network for everyone in life sciences

Follow the companies, products and regulators you care about, and see what changes in one feed. Ask questions, share what you know and find your next role.

  • A feed that follows your work. Recalls, clearances, inspections and news about what you follow, with a digest by e-mail.
  • Questions and answers. Ask the community, answer what you know, and build a profile people trust.
  • Company pages and jobs. Present your company, post jobs and find people. Job seekers never pay.
  • Messages. Talk to colleagues and contacts in one place.
The Orca1 home feed: clearances and recalls from the companies you follow, the list of what you follow and the dates coming up

Testimonials

Hours of research, done in minutes

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
One of the World's Top Law Firms
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.
A Boutique Law Firm which Specializes in FDA Regulations
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.
A Full-Service Consulting Business for the Medical Device Industry
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 Leading Graduate Medical School
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.
An Early-Phase Medical Device Inventor and Manufacturer

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

Read Orca1's comments on the predicate device guidance

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.

Read the recall and predictive trends analysis

Pricing

One platform for everyone in life sciences

Join free for the network and a first look at the data. Upgrade when the work needs more, or bring your whole team on Enterprise.

Free

The network, jobs and Workspace, with a first look at the data

$0a month
Join free
  • Home feed, questions and answers, profiles and jobs
  • Search all datasets at once and see how many results match
  • Your own Workspace to save and share

Enterprise

The intelligence platform for your team

Let's talkPriced for your team and the modules you need
Book a demo
  • All details of every record, with Orca1 analytics and scores
  • Download to Excel
  • Search inside FOIA documents
  • FDA documents and investigator profiles included, sized for your team
  • Organizations, seats and roles
  • Single sign-on and invoices
  • Add-ons: the Orca1 API and MCP, and FDA eSTAR

Subscriptions for one person are available inside Orca1 once you have joined.

Enterprise limits are agreed with your team.

Questions and answers

What enterprise teams ask us first

Something else on your mind? Book a demo and ask us directly.

What is Orca1?

Orca1 is the intelligence platform for life sciences. It brings regulatory, quality, safety, clinical, commercial and supply chain data from the FDA and regulators worldwide into one place, links it by product, company and facility, and adds search, AI, monitoring and a workspace for teams. A professional network with company pages and jobs comes with it.

Where does the data come from?

Mostly from official public sources: the FDA and other US agencies, regulators in Europe, the UK, Canada, Japan, Switzerland and many more countries, the WHO, trial registries and standards bodies. Our data science team cleans, structures and links it, and Orca1 adds its own analytics, such as safety signals. Record pages link to the official source wherever one is available.

How does the AI use our data and our questions?

Orca1 does not train AI models on your content. Answers are written by the built-in AI, or by your own AI provider under your agreement with it. Your files are read on Orca1's own servers, and only the passages an answer needs go to the AI that writes it. One person's files and answers are never used to answer someone else. The Privacy Policy has the details.

Can we use our own AI providers?

Yes. Each person can connect their own account at a leading AI provider, and their own web search provider. On Enterprise, your organization can add its providers for all its members, and the included AI is pooled across the team.

Do you support single sign-on and team controls?

Yes, on Enterprise. You can require everyone at your domain to sign in with your company's Microsoft or Google accounts. Your organization has seats, roles and team groups, your administrators see an audit trail and manage accounts and usage, and legal holds keep what must be preserved.

Where is our data kept, and who can see it?

On Orca1's own servers in the United States, not on a public cloud. Access follows roles and your organization, and what you save in Workspace is shared only with the people you choose. We answer security questionnaires. Read how we keep your data in our Privacy Policy and Data Processing Addendum.

How do pricing, contracts and onboarding work for Enterprise?

Enterprise is priced for your team and the modules you need, with limits agreed with you. We work with invoices and purchase orders, and onboarding is part of it. Book a call and we will put together an offer.

Can I connect Orca1 to my own software or AI tools?

Yes, with the Orca1 API and MCP, an add-on to Enterprise. Your applications and MCP-compatible AI tools then reach the data your organization can access.

Which languages does Orca1 work in?

Each person chooses their own language from the menu at the top of this page and in the platform, including right-to-left languages. The data stays as its source published it, and AI Chat answers in the language of your question.

Is Orca1 free?

Yes. A free account gets the feed, the network, jobs, Workspace, and searching all datasets at once to see how many results match, plus a number of searches each month to see the data. Pro and Enterprise add more; the plans above show what each includes.

What counts as a search?

Searching all datasets at once and seeing how many results match is always free. Inside a dataset, each different search counts once a day: new words, filters or picks make a new search, while paging, sorting, opening results and repeating a search the same day do not.

How do I cancel Pro?

Any time, in Settings under Plan and billing. Pro stays on until the end of the period you paid for.

See it with your own questions

A 30-minute call with our team: bring a product, a company or a submission, and we will show you what Orca1 finds.