Cogience builds AI-enabled platforms, purpose-built to compress how market access engagements actually run. Cogience.Advise — our virtual advisory board — is the flagship platform, with additional tooling in active development.

Asynchronous payer engagement
at global scale.

Supports advisory work across all disease areas and drug indications, with specifics tailored to rare, ultra-rare, and orphan drug programmes — where the experts who matter most are few, dispersed, and rarely available for live meetings.

From scoping to deliverable in three weeks.

  1. 01

    Curate the panel

    Five to ten senior advisors from Cogience's global network — payers, HTA evaluators, KOLs, patient advocates.

  2. 02

    Launch engagement

    Secure, closed-group platform. Advisors contribute on their own schedule over two to three weeks.

  3. 03

    Senior moderation

    Cogience partner moderates throughout — drawing in quiet voices, probing emerging themes, no junior layer.

  4. 04

    Deliver outputs

    Executive summary in 72 hours. Full insight report in two weeks. Structured exports for value dossiers and HTA submissions.

Built around the decisions HTA bodies actually make.

Where the platform earns its keep is in indications where in-person advisory is impractical — orphan drug expert pools are thin and global, busy specialists engage in ten-minute gaps, and HTA bodies increasingly demand patient-relevant evidence.

Engagement design maps directly onto rare disease and orphan drug decision criteria for each market:

  • NICE Highly Specialised Technologies
  • NICE severity modifier
  • CADTH rare disease review
  • HAS orphan drug pathway & ASMR
  • G-BA AMNOG with orphan provisions
  • AIFA Innovation Committee
  • PBAC Life Saving Drugs Programme
  • Japan Sakigake
  • US payer archetypes

Patient and caregiver input is a first-class workflow — not an add-on — matching the direction of travel across NICE, CADTH, HAS, and G-BA.

Everything the engagement needs, in one platform.

Global advisor panel

Payers, HTA evaluators, KOLs, policy experts, and patient advocacy leads across Europe, North America, APAC, LATAM, MEA.

Threaded async discussion

Moderator prompts with rich-text responses, file attachments, and per-advisor private response options.

Scheduled prompt release

Engagement window managed automatically — Day 1 / Day 3 / Day 6 / Day 10 cadence by default.

Mid-engagement insertion

New prompts added as themes emerge, without restarting the engagement or losing the thread.

AI-assisted moderation

Shallow-response detection, sentiment scoring, and AI-drafted summaries — always reviewed by senior moderators.

HTA template library

Pre-built question scaffolds for NICE HST, CADTH, HAS, AMNOG, LSDP, Sakigake, and US payer archetypes.

Client-branded portal

Per-engagement URL, branding, and observer mode for client teams with configurable advisor anonymisation.

Insight traceability

Every insight links back to specific advisor responses and business questions — exportable to value dossiers, CRMs, or Veeva.

Built for the most regulated industry on earth.

Encryption

AES-256 at rest, TLS 1.3+ in transit.

Multi-factor authentication

For all users — moderators, advisors, and clients.

Role-based access

Moderator, client admin, observer, advisor — scoped per engagement.

Tamper-resistant audit logs

Every post, edit, access, and attachment logged.

Daily backups

Tested restore, documented incident response, breach SLA.

Closed-group identification

EFPIA Annex 3 on every discussion, with full audit trail.

GDPR-compliant

Consent capture, right-to-be-forgotten workflow, DPAs, DPIA, SCCs.

Industry codes

ABPI, EFPIA, PhRMA, IFPMA built into engagement design.

Transfer-of-value reporting

US Sunshine Act, Loi Bertrand, DE/IT/ES, Disclosure UK.

Data residency

EU at GA. Switzerland, UK, US East on the roadmap.

Subprocessor register

Single global list, publicly transparent.

Certifications roadmap

SOC 2 Type I & II, HIPAA BAA, annual third-party pen test.

2–3 weeks Engagement window from launch to final report
5–10 Senior advisors per panel — globally distributed
3–4 weeks Typical time from agreement to engagement launch

Ready to scope an engagement?

Every engagement begins with a direct conversation with the senior practitioner who will lead it.

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