AI and eClinical systems consulting
AI for teams where mistakes are expensive.
BC Consulting trains clinical teams to build with AI, develops the applications they cannot buy off a shelf, and consults on the IRT, RTSM, and clinical supply systems those teams run on. We work where a wrong answer has real consequences: the clinical trial ecosystem, for sponsors and the service providers that support them. Everything we teach, we run our own business on first.
- AI training sessions and bootcamps delivered since 2025
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- clinical supply professionals trained at one top-5 pharma
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- AI-enabled control tower, replacing dozens of spreadsheets and SharePoint files at a clinical supply company
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Who we work with
BC Consulting works in one field today, clinical research, and speaks the language of the people who run trials: their systems, their examples, and their buyers.
Sponsors and the service providers that support them
Clinical Research
We offer two services to sponsors and service providers: AI training and development for clinical teams, and eClinical systems consulting for IRT, RTSM, and clinical supply chain systems, backed by twelve years on the vendor side of those systems.
See the clinical research services →What we do
Three AI services and one systems consulting service. The clinical research page shows how they fit together.
AI Training
Programs that end with working tools, not a certificate of attendance. Every participant builds something they can use the next morning, in their own account, against their own work.
How AI Training works →AI Application Development
Agents, document pipelines, and decision tools built around your systems, your data boundaries, and your rules. You own what we build, and your team learns how it works while we build it.
How AI Application Development works →AI Implementation
The path from a few enthusiasts to an organization with a position: tool selection, governance, rollout, and the measurement that lets you report honest numbers to a board.
How AI Implementation works →eClinical Systems Consulting
IRT and RTSM vendor selection, implementation oversight, UAT, and optimization, plus the clinical supply chain systems around them, advised from the sponsor side by someone who spent twelve years on the vendor side.
How eClinical Systems Consulting works →Why a former teacher runs this firm
Bryan Clayton, M.S., taught high school music for nine years before twelve years in clinical trial software, most of it on IRT and RTSM systems where a bad configuration shows up as a dosing error. He has coached baseball at North Penn High School since 2016. That combination is the whole method: the patience to teach a room of skeptics, and the scar tissue to know which shortcuts get a team in trouble.
This site, our learning platform, and the agents behind our own operations are built and maintained with the same workflows we bring to clients. When we say a team can build its own tools in a day, it is because we have watched it happen.
Start today with a self-paced course
The same curriculum we teach live, on the BC Consulting Learning Platform. Enroll online and start the same day; the first course is free.
Intro to Prompt Frameworks
A practical, hands-on intro to structured prompting for clinical trial work. Learn the C.R.E.A.T.E. and I.D.E.A. frameworks (plus five more), practice on every exercise with a live AI coach built right into the page, and see how agentic AI applies to clinical operations. No prior AI experience needed, and free to take.
Start free →$99Practical AI LLM for clinical research workflows (Exact Exchange)
The companion session for the Exact Exchange talk of 29 October 2026. One diagram shows what happens when you press Enter in an AI chat, then grows one Claude building block at a time: prompt, Projects and memory, Skills, Connectors, Plugins, Artifacts and loops, each with what it adds to the call, what data it moves and the guardrail it needs. Three reads, three labs built on fictional sponsor and CRO material, one guardrails quiz, the deck to review, and a two-page resource note. For independent consultants who work for several clients at once. Nothing here authorizes use of client data in any AI service or replaces Exact's or any client's policies.
View course →$99Claude for Clinical Trials: Foundations
Start using Claude confidently in your clinical trial work: safely, effectively, and without the hype. Learn how large language models actually behave, master the C.R.E.A.T.E. prompting framework, build verification habits that hold up in a regulated industry, and leave with a working Claude setup plus a starter prompt library built around real clinical operations tasks. No prior AI experience required.
View course →$99Claude for Clinical Trials: Building Your AI Workflows
Move from one-off prompting to repeatable AI systems. Build Claude Projects for your studies, write context files that teach Claude your therapeutic area, author reusable Skills that run your recurring work on demand, and add the verification layer that makes AI output trustworthy in a GxP world. Every module ends with a template, skill file, or checklist you keep. For clinical trial professionals already comfortable chatting with AI.
View course →Latest writing
What we learn building AI tools, training clinical teams, and working on the systems trials run on, written for the people who do the job.
Clinical Research
All Clinical Research posts →
When an AI Agent Takes Orders From Another Agent
OpenAI's GPT-6.1 Terra system card shows a model misjudging which instructions carry authority, and clinical systems already know where that authority belongs.
10 min read
Agent Traces and a GxP Audit Trail
Anthropic now exports Claude agent step as an OpenTelemetry trace; here is what that telemetry can and cannot do for a clinical audit trail.
10 min read
When UAT Goes Down, an AI Agent Uses Production
Anthropic's latest incident report shows AI agents crossing from test environments into live systems, and clinical teams running agents against UAT should take the boundary out of the prompt and put it in the infrastructure.
11 min read