How a leading global biotech company automated their competitive intelligence operations end-to-end with Contify

A fast-growing biotechnology company specializing in developing precision therapeutics for gut microbiome health. The company’s proprietary platform technology addresses critical gastrointestinal conditions through an innovative approach that selectively targets harmful pathogens while preserving beneficial microorganisms.

With significant venture funding and strategic partnerships, the company’s focus is on expanding its product portfolio across human and animal health markets. Operating in a rapidly evolving sector where regulatory changes, competitive developments, and partnership opportunities emerge frequently, their business development team and leadership require comprehensive competitive intelligence to guide strategic decision-making, partnership evaluations, and market entry planning across multiple therapeutic areas.

Prior to Contify, the company relied on manual aggregation of alerts and periodic website checks to monitor competitor activity. This weekly process was labor-intensive and prone to blind spots, particularly for:

• Clinical trial updates and patent filings, which often appeared across disparate regulatory portals

• Emerging startups and niche competitors lacking established tracking profiles

• Real-time funding, partnership, and pipeline news critical for timely business development decisions

As a result, the business development team and leadership faced delays in identifying strategic opportunities and risks. They needed a scalable, automated solution to deliver comprehensive, relevant intelligence across new product launches, regulatory changes, and competitive moves – without the noise and inefficiency of manual research.

Contify configured a tailored intelligence platform that automated the company’s core requirements:

1. Custom Competitor and Topic Tracking
   • Defined a curated newsfeed for 15+ named competitors (e.g., Lumen Bioscience, Animab, Novus) and industry segments (probiotics, prebiotics, gut health) using Contify’s Taxonomy Manager.
   • Enabled “global newsfeed” search to monitor emerging startups and custom URLs, ensuring no niche competitor went untracked across 1 million+ vetted sources.
2. Specialized Biotech Intelligence
   • Integrated clinical trial updates (clinicaltrials.gov), patent filings (WIPO, Espacenet), and regulatory alerts (FDA, NICE) into the same feed.
   • Applied AI-driven entity recognition and topic tagging to filter noise, dedupe articles, and surface the most relevant parent–child articles.
3. Advanced AI-Powered Insights with Athena
   • Deployed Athena AI, Contify’s proprietary Agentic AI insights engine, to automatically extract key business facts from articles and generate decision-ready insights.
   • Enabled Ask Athena conversational AI functionality for instant answers to ad-hoc business questions with context-aware precision.
   • Auto-generated summaries, executive statement extraction, and “facts” snippets to accelerate insight consumption.
4. Actionable Delivery and Collaboration
   • Configured real-time alerts to Microsoft Teams and email, with automated weekly newsletters and custom dashboards for business development and leadership.
   • Provided translated content from regional publications in 117+ languages, ensuring truly global competitive intelligence coverage.

This end-to-end solution replaced the manual weekly aggregation process with continuous, automated intelligence, delivering high-confidence insights tailored to biotech intelligence needs.

The platform delivered immediate operational improvements in the first quarter of implementation:

• Speed & Efficiency: Transitioned from weekly manual research to continuous real-time intelligence. Athena AI’s automated insights generation and executive statement extraction reduced time-to-insight from hours to minutes, while automated noise filtering eliminated 80% of manual processing time.
• Enhanced Coverage: Expanded monitoring from limited manual sources to 1 Mn+ automated sources, including specialized biotech databases for clinical trials, patents, and regulatory updates. Global newsfeed capability ensured coverage of emerging competitors previously missed by manual processes.
• Improved Decision-Making: Microsoft Teams integration and automated newsletters enabled seamless intelligence distribution to business development and leadership. Custom dashboards powered by Athena AI provided comprehensive competitor overviews with auto-updating insights, supporting faster strategic planning and partnership discussions.
• Scalable AI-Powered Foundation: The platform’s Agentic AI insights engine and customizable taxonomy created a scalable system that grows with organizational needs, eliminating resource constraints of manual intelligence gathering while maintaining enterprise-grade accuracy.

This biotech company successfully transformed its competitive intelligence from a time-intensive weekly manual process to an automated, AI-powered, comprehensive monitoring system. By implementing Contify’s advanced platform with Athena Agents, they gained real-time visibility into competitor activities, clinical developments, and market movements while reducing research effort by over 80%.

The solution demonstrates how specialized AI-powered intelligence platforms can address the unique challenges faced by growing biotech companies, from tracking niche competitors to monitoring regulatory changes and patent filings without requiring extensive internal resources.

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