Artificial Intelligence
forged in pharma
Norstella is the AI company for biopharma’s highest-stakes decisions.
Built for the industry's most demanding teams
Trusted by every top 100 pharma company
Based on the Scrip 100 ranking by total pharmaceutical sales.
Why Norstella AI
Intelligence behind every decision
Norstella AI combines unmatched proprietary data, connected context, specialized AI and decades of human expertise to deliver answers biopharma teams rely on.
Unmatched data
The industry’s most comprehensive intelligence spanning the full drug development and commercialization lifecycle.
Connected context
Brings together clinical, commercial and market intelligence into a single view, helping teams see the complete picture behind every decision.
Specialized AI
Purpose-built for the journey from pipeline to patient, accelerating the workflows that bring therapies to market.
Human expertise
Decades of biopharma expertise shape the data, AI and solutions teams rely on.
#4
Most Innovative Data Science Company, 2025
Ranked across all industries — not just life sciences.
In the news
Norstella's data, forecasts and expert analysis are cited by the world's leading media.
How it works
From data to decisions
AI is only as good as its context. Norstella turns trusted data into connected intelligence, giving specialized agents the grounding to deliver credible, actionable answers.
03 · Agent Layer
Specialized AI built for every role
With Norstella
Specialized agents apply trusted data and connected context to specific biopharma workflows, delivering traceable insights teams can act on.
Without specialized AI
General-purpose AI can generate plausible answers but lacks the domain and workflow understanding needed to inform critical biopharma decisions.
02 · Context Layer
The context behind every decision
With Norstella
Norstella connects decades of life sciences data to provide the historical and longitudinal context behind every answer, revealing relationships and changes that would otherwise be missed.
Without connected context
Disconnected data leaves AI with isolated facts, causing it to miss critical relationships and history and produce incomplete or misleading conclusions.
01 · Foundation
Data structured for AI
With Norstella
Norstella structures expertly curated data through deeply defined ontologies, creating a trusted foundation for AI and grounding every answer in evidence.
Without the right foundation
Incomplete, inconsistent or poorly structured data leads to unreliable outputs, weak citations and answers teams cannot confidently act on.
The foundation
The data biopharma trusts
Built over more than 30 years, Norstella’s connected intelligence foundation combines the depth, breadth and quality of data biopharma teams rely on every day.
95%
of data fields created through proprietary sources & processes
Linked and curated RWD records
Connected clinical data points
Drug relation points
Launched brands across 400 indications
Connected with purpose.
Trillions of disparate data points surface the insights that matter most.
Workflows
One foundation, every workflow
Each Norstella brand brings deep expertise to a critical part of the journey, united by proprietary, connected data and an understanding of how pharma actually works.
Clinical Development
AI across protocol design, feasibility, and competitive intelligence — moving studies from concept to execution faster.
Pipeline · Trial design · Operations
Commercial Forecasting
Consensus and predictive forecasting with a sourced AI analyst, so portfolio bets are grounded in evidence.
Portfolio · Forecasting · Strategy
Market Access
Real-time payer policy intelligence, summarized and surfaced in context so teams act before the market shifts.
Access · Payer · Reimbursement
Real-World Evidence
Conversational analytics that turn real-world data into cohorts and insights in plain language.
RWD · Outcomes · Evidence
HCP Engagement
Precision-target and engage key healthcare professionals at scale through trusted specialist networks.
HCP · Engagement · Activation
Specialty & Oncology Strategy
Strategic consulting for specialty and oncology therapeutics, navigating the toughest access pathways.
Oncology · Specialty · Strategy
Norstella Atlas
Agentic AI built on biopharma’s most connected data.
Norstella Atlas combines purpose-built AI agents with Norstella’s proprietary, connected data to execute complex biopharma workflows.
Atlas agents don’t retrieve information. They deliver complete, decision-ready analysis in minutes rather than days or weeks. Every answer is grounded in decades of linked, expert-curated intelligence across drugs, trials, companies, payers, sites and patients, giving teams the context and clarity to act on biopharma’s highest-stakes decisions.
AI products
The AI products pharma teams rely on
Purpose-built AI already at work across clinical development, commercial intelligence, market access and real-world evidence.
Norstella · Competitive Intelligence
Atlas CI
A competitive intelligence agent for pharma and biotech. Start with a question. Receive a complete, sourced deliverable in the format your team already uses.
Citeline · Connected Trial Planning
SmartSolutions
AI-powered solutions that help clinical teams design trials that are feasible, recruitable, and built for real-world success. Move seamlessly from protocol design to patient feasibility and site selection in one connected workflow, using trusted clinical intelligence, real-world data, and AI-driven recommendations to make confident decisions earlier and avoid costly delays.
Evaluate · Commercial intelligence
Evaluate Ella
Ella is an AI analyst built into Evaluate’s commercial intelligence platform. Ask a question in plain English and get a sourced, citable answer grounded in Evaluate’s proprietary data, not the web. Every response traces back to the underlying licensed dataset, making outputs auditable and ready to act on immediately.
Panalgo · Real-world evidence
Panalgo Ella
A conversational, AI-powered assistant enabling deeper, contextually relevant interactions. Made for asking questions in plain language and getting answers fast. Built into the backbone of IHD, it transforms how life sciences teams build cohorts, generate insights, and make decisions.
MMIT · POLICY ALERTS
Searchlight
Searchlight delivers policy and formulary change alerts within 24 to 48 hours, with AI-powered summaries, clear visual comparisons and personalised updates.
It cuts through policy noise to surface the changes that matter, helping market access teams respond sooner and plan with greater confidence.
Evaluate · Machine learning-driven pharma insight
Omnium
Evaluate Omnium is the AI-powered predictive-analytics module inside Evaluate Pharma. Ask what is most likely to succeed, when it will happen, what it will cost, and what it could be worth, and get a defensible answer drawn from machine-learning models trained on more than 25 years of outcomes. Probability of success, approval timelines, R&D costs, peak sales, and NPV across thousands of assets, so teams skip weeks of Excel modelling.
Norstella · Data foundation
NorstellaLinQ
- Strengthen your strategy with data that's unparalleled in breadth and relevance, augmented with claims, lab, EHR and more.
- Drive action and save time with technology that provides you prescriptive recommendations based on industry intelligence.
- Power trusted AI outcomes with a connected data foundation curated and validated by industry experts across the pharma lifecycle.
Inside Norstella AI
Discover how purpose-built AI, proprietary data and deep biopharma expertise combine to power decision-ready analysis.
Award Winning
Recognized for Artificial Intelligence Innovation in the 9th Annual AI Breakthrough Awards Program
Evaluate’s Ask Ella has been named “Enterprise AI Search Solution of the Year” in the 9th annual AI Breakthrough Awards program.
The clarity test
Intelligence built for biopharma's highest-stakes decisions
Biopharma decisions carry real consequences. That’s why every output is tested against four key criteria before it reaches you, so it is clear, defensible and ready to act on.
Cited
Every output is traceable to its source, so teams can follow the reasoning and stand behind the answer.
Consistent
Grounded in a stable, curated context layer built from decades of expert curation, reliable every time you ask.
Contextual
Matched to the actual decision workflow, with outputs shaped around the specific question and the team asking it.
Consequential
Every output is built to drive a decision forward with the depth and clarity to back it up.
Every decision is only as good as the intelligence behind it.
That's why every Atlas output clears the Clarity test before it reaches you.
The people behind the AI
Meet the team
Our experts bring first-hand experience of the decisions and data life sciences teams face every day.
Real-world data after dark
Real Conversations. Real Insights.
Real-world data can be complex, but it doesn’t have to be. Real-World Data After Dark blends deep insights with light late-night talk show banter. Our experts unpack complex challenges, spark new ideas, and show how real-world data shapes pharma strategy and drives better patient outcomes—with a twist.
Season 2 Episodes
Thought leadership
We shape the thinking around AI
Responsible AI
Trust isn't a feature. It's the foundation.
Eight principles govern how we build, evaluate, and deploy AI across Norstella.
01
Grounded & sourced
Answers are tied to licensed, proprietary data with citations — never the open web alone. If we can’t ground it, we don’t claim it.
02
Auditable by design
Every output can be traced back to its evidence, so decisions stay defensible long after they’re made.
03
Human in the loop
Experts review and validate where the stakes are highest, before any action is taken on an AI recommendation.
04
Rigorously evaluated
Capabilities are scored against pharma-specific rubrics before release and continuously monitored in production.
05
Fair & monitored
We test for bias and drift across populations and use cases — and act on what we find.
06
Private & secure
Patient-level data is tokenized, governed, and access-controlled end to end, meeting the industry’s privacy standards.
07
Transparent & explainable
We’re clear about what the AI does, where its limits are, and how to interpret what it returns.
08
The Clarity Criteria
Every answer is cited, consistent, contextual, and consequential — four standards generic AI rarely meets, and ones we clear every time.
See what Norstella AI can do for your team
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Frequently asked questions
A few of the most common answers, drawn straight from buyer conversations.
What makes Norstella AI different from general-purpose AI tools?
Norstella AI is grounded in proprietary, SME-curated life sciences data rather than the open web. Every answer traces back to a licensed source, and our AI is designed around the workflows and decisions that drive drug development.
What is Norstella’s context layer?
Norstella’s context layer brings together proprietary data, industry knowledge and domain expertise to provide the understanding AI needs to generate more relevant answers. It helps transform connected intelligence into insights aligned with the realities of life sciences.
How does Norstella AI reduce hallucinations?
Every release is validated against an SME-authored evaluation framework benchmarked against human experts. Atlas CI is scored using standardized test cases and rubrics designed by subject matter experts, helping ensure outputs are accurate, trustworthy and continuously improving.
Is my company’s data secure?
Yes. Data uploaded into Atlas CI is stored within a secure, access-controlled environment and is never used to train shared models. Customer data remains distinct from Norstella data and is governed using enterprise-grade controls.
Can we bring our own data into Atlas CI?
Yes. Atlas CI can combine your own structured data with Norstella intelligence, allowing teams to work with proprietary information alongside broader industry context while clearly distinguishing the source of data.
Does Norstella AI replace human expertise?
No. Norstella AI is designed to augment expert teams. Human expertise remains embedded throughout the data, evaluation methodologies and products that power Norstella AI.