A 64-Year Firm. Radically Reinvented for the AI-first Insights Economy™

Insights that accelerate molecules to market

The life sciences marketspace has shifted fundamentally.

More products, more brands, more therapeutic areas, more noise. In this AI-led, high-velocity environment, the companies fastest to commercialization will be the ultimate winners.

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Making Speed the new commercial reality.

With exploding pipelines, reshaped expectations, collapsing commercial windows, and huge product proliferation, the greatest enemy for life sciences brands is time.

As this environment continues to accelerate, the question isn’t how much we know. It’s how fast we can convert knowledge into confident business decisions.

The need of the hour

Speed to market requires a new operating system.

One that compresses the distance between science, insight, and market. Because every month lost in the research cycle is a month your competitors own the market.

Legacy
Episodic, siloed research
Insights built in silos
Static decks
Disconnected linear phases; long delays
Siloed insights; maxed budgets force trade-offs
Testing too many ideas thinly
Tomorrow
Continuous intelligence loops
Integrated intelligence aligning teams
Living insight systems
Connected, iterative sprints that build momentum
Efficient spend and broader data sets
Informed decisions; testing the best ideas deeply

We turn demand into momentum through our
lifecycle acceleration framework

What our modern insight operating model makes possible

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Early Pipeline + Innovation

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Market Shaping Strategy

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Communication + Growth

Legacy Approach 2.5 years
SHAPIRO+RAJ APPROACH Cut by 6–9+ months

Acceleration in action

See how we bring this promise to life

Real-world applications of insight, strategy, and speed.

JOURNEYS

Identifying and Motivating the Patients Most Likely to be Proactive about Their Disease

By uncovering the unconscious biases shaping treatment decisions, S+R helped identify new strategic openings in a competitive CLL market.

Clearer patient targets for launch and messaging

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TRACKING/ATU

When ‘Good Enough’ Becomes the Enemy of Bette

How a 125-patient ATU study in an autoimmune condition revealed that physician non-recommendation — not patient unawareness — is where the biologi

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DRIVERS+BARRIERS

United Purpose, Divided Perspectives: Healthcare Providers Navigate an Uncertain Future

Research with physicians across specialties explores how providers are reacting to a new administration, where views are divided, and what pharma leaders should understand about access, priorities, and patient care.

One segmentation schema, adopted across markets

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DON'T TAKE OUR WORD FOR IT

Our clients say it better than we do...

This is my 17th global launch… I’ve never had such an easy time doing this across the globe and securing alignment. S+R empowered me. Tremendous value.

There was a lot of sensitivity with what we were testing – so much data across 10 different global markets. Each region was under tremendous pressure to be successful, and they interrogated us on decisions. Within 2 days we were able to develop market specific insights, which was incredibly rewarding to them — not only having it align with the global communications platform, but we were able to identify the regional differences and make decisions.

Global Insights Director

We are under-indexing on proper primary market research as a team — we need to stop relying so much on big data, and do more of this kind of research across brands. Shapiro+Raj has delivered the most insightful piece of research I have ever seen. We need to make time to discuss implications.

Global Products and Pipeline Strategy

We decided to do a comparison of five different AI tools from five research companies that we work with. Stella.ai from Shapiro+Raj was one of them.

Our approach was disciplined and diligent. We used one project per firm and had a cross-functional team evaluate the outcomes using answers to 10 specific questions / queries. Stella.ai was the clear leader, scoring 94/100 while the rest had scores in the 60s. The answers from Stella.ai were accurate at a high level of confidence.

Insights Lead, Top-20 Pharma

Shapiro+Raj exceeded expectations by revealing critical insights that have reshaped our provider engagement strategy. Their interactive agent delivers these insights to stakeholders in compelling ways, bringing physician perspectives to life through custom avatars. Their Stella AI technology provides us with the confidence to quickly develop and refine our messaging, ensuring we effectively communicate our product’s value proposition.

Global Brand Lead, Top-10 Pharma

The new and revolutionary approach recommended and executed by the Shapiro+Raj team was an eye-opening experience. Not only did we gain a deep understanding of a therapeutic area we previously knew little about, but more importantly, we were able to engage in meaningful dialogue and debate with the Avatars on issues we could never have explored directly with patients.

This gave us tremendous confidence in a deal we were working on and also provided a segmentation of the overall MDD space in significantly less time and with far greater efficiency than we expected.

Franchise Insights & Analytics Lead, Top-5 Pharma

I want to thank each and every one of you… I think we delivered a very successful story to the Brand team, and the results were meaningful and have already been put into action. This is a project success! Your team delivered an innovative and difficult project against tight timelines. Thank you for your partnership, your hard work, and your commitment to getting us to a great place.

Associate Director, Market Analytics and Business

Shapiro+Raj’s Guided Deliberations™ method is so unique and impactful. We have never experienced something like this before. The moderator was amazing, very knowledgeable and engaged with the doctors very well. The team offered really good insights. When we asked for something, you always took it to the next level, helping us think about things we haven’t yet considered.

Senior Manager, Insights & Analytics

I was impressed with the level of thought the team put into the proposal and also from there the kick-off meeting and everything… You’ve been really good thought partners. It felt like you were trying to solve the problem along with us.

Business Insights Lead

Shapiro+Raj has helped us deliver new insight into our toughest business challenges. I love working with them. They’re talented, strategic thinkers who really understand how to uncover insights that drive decisions.

Director of Insight and Innovation

Techmanity — therapeutic expertise and technology

our philosophy

TechManity™

By combining deep therapeutic expertise with advanced technology, we deliver clarity at the speed this moment demands.

Technical intelligence handles the volume.

Human intelligence delivers the strategic heft.

This is the shift that changes outcomes.

HUMAN INTELLIGENCE

A unique blend of expertise, grounded in proven methodology and built to deliver impact

Meet the Team
Expertise overlap: industry experts, social scientists, business strategists

AMPLIFIED BY OUR PROPRIETARY AI

Leading AI agent developed just for the life sciences industry

Stella — proprietary AI platform for life sciences
  • Synthesize.
  • Simulate.
  • Predict.

Built for the demands of pharma, biotech and device brands, Stella not only synthesizes your primary research data, but uses accumulated intelligence to simulate and predict behaviors. It is your always-on thought partner, built to hypothesize, ideate, refine, and optimize insights in real time.

Stella transforms insights from static outputs into dynamic, decision-ready answers. Built for speed, transparency, and rigor that high-stakes commercialization demands.

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Our perspective

We publish what we believe. Not what you want to hear.

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SHAPE THE FUTURE

Want to accelerate your molecule or career?

Whether you’re looking for a strategic partner to help build a pipeline asset, help with a launch, or rethinking how your commercial team leverages insights, or are looking for a company that can help you shape the future of your career, reach out.

The best time to start was before your last launch. The second best time is today.

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