APV engagements deliver working AI systems — scoped end-to-end, built to pharma's compliance bar, and handed over operational. No strategy decks. No vendor shortlists. No hand-offs.
Every APV engagement follows the same structure: a strategy phase that defines the right system, a build phase that delivers it, and a post-launch phase that refines it against real-world use. Sequential, milestone-aligned, and led directly by Nic Valle from kickoff through handover.
Define the right system to build, the compliance frame it lives within, and the requirements that drive the build phase.
Deliver the working system — design, AI logic, dashboards, integrations, compliance-mapped paths.
Train your team, run final UAT, and refine the system against real operational data before clean handover.
The phases are sequential and each one earns the next. Strategy makes the build succeed. Build produces the working system. Post-launch refinement proves it against real-world operational data before APV walks away.
The first phase exists to make the build phase succeed. We work with your stakeholders to define the operational pain, the system that will solve it, and the compliance and governance frame the system will live within.
The build phase delivers the working system. APV uses a low-code-where-appropriate, custom-where-required approach — we choose tooling that matches the compliance bar and the pace your team can absorb, not tooling that maximizes our billable hours.
APV doesn't hand off and walk away. The refinement phase is built into every engagement: live training for your team, recorded modules and quick-start documentation, final UAT, and a tuning period to dial the system against real operational data.
APV engagements scope to the work. Most fall into one of two shapes — a workflow implementation built on low-code tools, or a custom platform build with deeper integration and managed development resources.
AI systems built on top of low-code tools — data hubs, dashboards, automation layers — for teams that need a working system in weeks, not quarters. The bread-and-butter engagement.
Purpose-built software systems for teams with deeper integration, custom application, or complex compliance requirements. Includes managed development resources where required.
Some teams need to validate the opportunity before committing to a full implementation. Strategic Discovery is the front half of a build — a focused, fixed-scope engagement that defines the system worth building, the compliance frame it lives within, and the investment required. Everything Discovery produces feeds directly into Phase 1 of a build engagement.
Every APV engagement is fixed-price and milestone-aligned. Payment is structured to align our incentives with your outcomes — equal quarters tied to the deliverable that closes each phase.
Your data, your deployed instance, your custom workflows, your therapeutic-area-specific configurations — all of it. The system lives in your environment, not on an APV platform you depend on us to maintain.
APV retains rights to the underlying methodologies and tooling we bring to every project — design patterns, AI instruction frameworks, compliance templates. The client-specific build and data are not part of that.
A 30-minute scoping call is the right place to start. We'll discuss your operational pain, the AI opportunity, and whether an APV engagement is the right fit. No deck required.
