Study Design

Faro's Study Design platform is a purpose-built solution for clinical teams seeking to design, optimize, and accelerate clinical studies before they begin. By surfacing data-driven insights and recommendations at every stage of the design process, Faro empowers study teams to make confident, high-impact decisions in minutes rather than weeks.

The platform is built around the principle that better study design upstream leads to faster, more efficient development downstream. With tools spanning protocol digitization, benchmarking, scenario modeling, and AI-powered recommendations, Faro provides a structured foundation that connects study design directly to downstream automation and document generation.

Core Design Capabilities

• Real-time protocol refinement: Faro's Study Designer lets teams see the impact of design decisions as they work, enabling iterative refinement of protocols in real time while simultaneously building a structured foundation for downstream automation.
• Proactive optimization: Faro proactively surfaces opportunities to reduce patient burden, cost, and complexity without compromising scientific objectives, helping teams identify improvements they might otherwise overlook.
• Protocol research library: Teams can leverage Faro's growing library of publicly available protocols to identify benchmarks, select appropriate endpoints, and optimize population criteria — with expanded research features coming soon.

Key Features and Workflow Steps

• Import and digitize: Build a repository of internal benchmarks or accelerate study design by importing and digitizing existing protocols, connecting seamlessly with Faro's broader workflow automation capabilities.
• Benchmarking: Compare your study design against internal studies or Faro's library of public digital protocols to understand how your design measures up against industry standards.
• Rapid scenario modeling: Use insights to compare alternative design approaches and understand the downstream impact of specific design decisions before committing to a protocol direction.
• Clinically-relevant AI recommendations: Receive guidance that is therapeutic area-specific, nuanced, and accurate. Every recommendation is backed by sourced data and references, enabling teams to act with confidence.

Impact and Outcomes

• Faro's platform has contributed to more than 600,000 potential patient hours avoided, reflecting the real-world burden reduction enabled by optimized study designs.
• By helping teams optimize designs from the start, Faro accelerates studies before they even begin, reducing delays and inefficiencies that typically arise from late-stage protocol changes.

Downstream Automation and Document Generation

• Document authoring: Generate ICH M11 compliant, high-quality protocol drafts directly from the structured study design, saving significant authoring time.
• Workflow automation: Faro extends beyond study design to automate EDC build, site budgets, vendor data transfer specifications, and more, eliminating delays across the broader clinical development workflow.

Faro's Study Design module is part of a broader integrated platform that connects protocol design to execution-ready outputs, making it a comprehensive solution for clinical teams looking to reduce burden, improve quality, and accelerate the path from design to study start.