Pharma × FDA-regulated software

We know medical device software so you don't have to.

ACNU, companion diagnostic, imaging endpoint, clinical AI agent. If your asset needs software the FDA has to review, we’ve cleared it before. Petros Pharmaceuticals picked us in May. 45 prior submissions are on the record.

As featured in BioSpace · Petros Pharmaceuticals × Innolitics
BioSpace press release headline: Petros Pharmaceuticals Partners with Innolitics, a Leading Software-as-a-Medical-Device Developer

Featured in BioSpace

Regulatory track record, low execution risk, and a team that has the devs who know the regs.

BioSpace announced the partnership on May 20, 2025: Petros Pharmaceuticals (NASDAQ: PTPI) partnered with Innolitics to integrate AI, cybersecurity, patient self-selection, EHR integration, and retail pharmacy components into its first-in-industry SaaS platform, developed as Software as a Medical Device under FDA’s ACNU guidelines for Rx-to-OTC switch.

Pharma teams bring us in once the build-vs-buy call is settled and the next question is partner fit: credentials, regulatory record, execution risk. We’ve shipped 45+ FDA submissions across AI/ML, imaging, IVD, and digital therapeutics. The hard reviews included. The ones other firms said no to.

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30 minutes. FDA path, scope, timeline, and whether we’re the right fit for your program.

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Proof, not promises

Case studies

FDA clearances, Breakthrough Device Designations, hold letters recovered, multi-indication submission architectures. AI/ML, imaging, clinical AI.

Voice of the customer

What clients tell their peers.

The lines they repeat on reference calls.

I needed a software development partner to write the software, train the AI, and get FDA clearance. An investor once told me that it would take me $5 million and 5 years to get to where we are now. Innolitics got me here 3 years ahead of schedule and $4 million dollars under budget.

Dr. Andrew Smith, MD PhD
Dr. Andrew Smith, MD PhD
Co-Founder at AI Metrics & Chair of Diagnostic Imaging at St. Jude Children's Research Hospital
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Where our medical device software experience applies to pharma

Six software plays for OTC channel extension, label expansion, and trial speed.

If you already know which one you need, you’re in the right place. If you’re between two, we’ll tell you which fits in the first call.

ACNU

Rx-to-OTC switch with a software gate

Unlocks: The FDA-cleared gating software that makes an Additional Condition for Nonprescription Use possible: self-screening, eligibility logic, labeling integration.

Trial Imaging

Imaging-enhanced clinical trial recruitment

Unlocks: Better enrollment, fewer screen failures, audit-ready from patient one. AI imaging software that pre-screens patients against your trial's eligibility criteria, run against real-world scans, validated against the protocol, audit-ready for the IND.

DDT

FDA-qualified Drug Development Tools

Unlocks: FDA-qualified imaging endpoints, biomarker assay software, and clinical outcome assessment tools. Qualify once, reference in every IND, NDA, and BLA without re-review.

MDDT

Medical Device Development Tools

Unlocks: Qualify a software tool with FDA once, then reuse it across multiple submissions, yours or a partner's.

Clinical AI

FDA-compliant clinical AI agents

Unlocks: Deploy LLM and agent systems in regulated workflows (clinical ops, pharmacovigilance, medical affairs) in a form your quality system and FDA will accept.

How we engage

Two ways to work with us. Your call.

Same team, same quality system, same FDA reviewers, whether we carry the whole build or wrap the work your team already did.

Option A

End-to-end build

We design, build, validate, and submit. Engineering, regulatory, AI/ML, and cybersecurity under one roof. No vendor handoffs, no translation layer between the people writing the code and the people writing the submission.

Best for: Pharma teams without internal SaMD engineering, or programs where speed to submission matters more than who owns the code day-to-day.

Option B

Bring your own software or AI

Your team has the software or the model. We wrap it in the FDA-grade lifecycle (design controls, V&V, cybersecurity documentation, human factors, PCCP) so it can be referenced in an NDA supplement, a De Novo, a 510(k), or a DDT qualification package.

Best for: Teams whose discovery, clinical science, or in-house software is already working and FDA-ready is the missing layer.

Partner fit, fast

Tell us what you need built. We'll tell you if we're the right fit.

Straight talk in 30 minutes: scope, timeline, team, references. No deck theater.

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Before you book the call

The questions pharma buyers ask on the first call.

We want to bring our own algorithm. How do you handle model IP?

Your model stays yours. We wrap it in the FDA-grade lifecycle (IEC 62304, V&V, cybersecurity, PCCP). You own the weights, the code, the training data provenance. We author the regulated-software shell around it.

Can we start with something smaller than a full build, like a pre-sub or gap analysis?

Yes. A four-week fixed-fee Regulatory Gap Analysis returns a scored readiness report, pathway recommendation, and remediation roadmap. Most pharma programs start there before committing to a build.

Can the software live on our infrastructure, or does it have to run on yours?

Either. We deliver containerized artifacts and infrastructure-as-code. Most pharma clients host production themselves once we hand off. Staging and V&V can run on either side.

How do you price, fixed-fee or T&M?

Both. Discovery and gap analyses are fixed fee. Builds are typically milestone-based fixed-fee for scoped workstreams, T&M for evolving scope. We surface the tradeoff before you sign.

What do we actually get at the end of the engagement?

Everything. Source code, design history file, V&V protocols and reports, traceability matrices, submission artifacts, cybersecurity package, post-market plan. Your regulatory team owns the asset from day one.

How do you coordinate with our existing CRO, biostatistician, and clinical lead?

CROs run drug trials; we run regulated software. Different FDA centers, different artifacts. We map to their deliverables, attend their meetings when software touches endpoints, and stay out of their lane otherwise.

Can you meet with FDA on our behalf, or do we have to lead?

We do both. Some pharma teams want us in the pre-sub room as the software voice. Others want us prepping their regulatory lead and staying in the background. Decided per meeting.

Ready to move

30 minutes to a partner-fit decision.

You’ll talk to someone who has cleared this class of software before, in this FDA center, on deadlines that mattered.

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