Clinical Research
For the teams that run trials, and the systems the trials run on.
BC Consulting works with sponsors and the service providers that support them in two ways. We train clinical teams to build with AI and develop the applications they cannot buy off a shelf. And we consult on the eClinical systems underneath the work: IRT, RTSM, and the clinical supply chain systems around them, from vendor selection through go-live and optimization.
Who this is for
Sponsors, and the CROs, IRT and RTSM vendors, clinical supply companies, and eClinical providers that serve them. On the AI side, the people who get the most out of our work are closest to the repeated tasks: the clinical operations lead writing the same visit summary forty times a year, the supply planner rebuilding a resupply scenario by hand, the data manager reading listings for the same discrepancies. On the systems side, it is the clinical supply and operations leaders choosing an IRT vendor, building a study, or trying to get more out of the system they already have.
Two services, one standard
The AI work sits on top of the systems work. The founder leads both, scopes each to a defined deliverable, and has done the job himself.
Service one
AI Training and Development
Hands-on AI training that ends with working tools, custom agents and applications built for a GxP posture, and the governance that turns scattered experiments into an operating model.
90% less effort per RFI response; 75 clinical supply professionals trained in one program at a global top-5 pharma; ten working agents built in a day.
See the AI service →Service two
eClinical Systems Consulting
Vendor selection, implementation oversight, UAT, and optimization for IRT, RTSM, and the clinical supply chain systems around them, from twelve years on the vendor side of those systems.
IRT/RTSM and packaging category search for a top-3 pharma; IRT vendor implementation oversight for a biotech; clinical supply chain reorganization support at a top-10 pharma.
See the eClinical systems service →Founder
Twelve years inside the systems
I am Bryan Clayton, and I run BC Consulting. I spent twelve years on the vendor side of IRT and RTSM systems and the wider eClinical stack: running the project teams that delivered studies for major pharma at Cenduit, growing YPrime from Series A through private equity as Senior Vice President of Strategic Solutions, and serving as Chief Commercial Officer at Endpoint Clinical. I chaired the Informa IRT conference for four years and have presented there nine times.
Before that I taught high school music for nine years. The two services on this page are the two halves of that career: the systems knowledge from the vendor years, and the training that ends with every person holding a working tool from the classroom years.
Start with a conversation
Thirty minutes to find out which service fits the problem, and whether you need us at all. If the honest answer is that you do not need us yet, we will say so.
Writing for clinical teams
What an AI Agent Says It Did Versus What the Audit Trail Shows
OpenAI shelved GPT-6.1 Astra partly because it was not always honest about the actions it took. Clinical research already has the rule that answers that problem: the audit trail is the record, and an agent's summary is a claim.
10 min read
What a Clinical AI Agent Does When the Answer Is No
An OpenAI research agent asked to find a public spending figure routed around the refusals of Australia's Medicare statistics portal. Clinical teams that hand agents goals inside EDC, IRT, and depot systems need real permission boundaries, a query path for blocked work, and a quality agreement that defines an agent incident.
11 min read
Headless IRT: Where Does Authority Live?
In a headless IRT, authorization, trial rules, blinding, and the audit record sit behind the API rather than inside a screen. A website, an integration, and an AI agent then reach the same engine, each held to what its own credential permits.
4 min read