Does Katalyze work with the systems a company already runs?

Yes. Katalyze connects to existing systems without migrating data; they stay where they are and remain the source of truth. Connectors today cover SharePoint, Veeva Vault, Outlook / Microsoft Graph, SFTP, Amazon S3, Amazon Redshift, Snowflake, SAP, PostgreSQL, Neo4j, REST API / webhooks, Cytiva and BASF, and the scientific sources PubMed and ScienceDirect. Document Intelligence covers the paper records, PDFs and spreadsheets no system holds.

Does connecting to Katalyze mean migrating data?

No. A connector reads, moves or publishes; nothing is migrated. The Context Layer keeps results linked to their original sources without requiring data migration.

Does Katalyze replace a company's scientists and engineers?

No. Katalyze takes on the assembly and the documentation, not the judgment, and gives experts more of their time for the questions that need them. Access is controlled, every run is recorded, and the customer's scientists retain review and approval authority over every decision.

How do experts work with the AI agents?

Experts direct the work and retain review and approval authority. Agents assemble evidence, generate and test hypotheses, and draft evidence-backed documents and action plans within defined workflows. Experts can inspect the sources, challenge the findings, and decide how to act on them.

Can Katalyze digitize paper batch records?

Yes. Paper batch records are where teams typically start with Document Intelligence. It reads the printed form, the handwritten values, the corrections and the margin notes on every page and turns them into structured data in the customer's schema, each value linked to the page it was read from, with anything it is unsure of flagged for the customer's experts before the data moves on.

Which documents can Document Intelligence work with?

When Document Intelligence is the primary purchase, teams commonly begin with paper batch records, certificates of analysis, PDFs, scans and records received from suppliers, CROs, CDMOs and labs. Within an Agentic Solution, the document set is selected for the operational job and may include recipes, process records, deviation records, SOPs and transfer documentation.

Can a team start with Document Intelligence on its own?

Yes. Teams can begin with Document Intelligence to structure and review high-value records such as batch records and certificates of analysis. It is a component of the one platform, so it also provides document-derived context within Agentic Solutions such as Deviation Investigation, Yield Optimization, Raw Material Characterization and Tech Transfer.

What is the difference between Document Intelligence and the Context Layer?

Document Intelligence extracts and contextualizes information from operational documents. The Context Layer combines that information with data brought in through Connectors and organizes it using a customer-specific Ontology and a Knowledge Graph of relationships.

Is the Ontology prebuilt for pharma?

No. Katalyze brings domain expertise and reusable patterns, and creates and tunes the Ontology and the Knowledge Graph around the customer's operation and the first job. The vocabulary is the customer's.

Can teams ask questions of the connected information in plain language?

Yes. Through App Studio, teams search and question connected operational knowledge in plain language, and the answers keep their sources. The agent teams talk to across the platform is Katalyze.

What happens when a company adds another solution?

Each new solution builds on the same platform and Context Layer. Teams can reuse and expand context established for an earlier job as they connect the information needed for the next one.

Where does a customer's data live, and how is it protected?

The customer's systems stay where they are and remain the source of truth; Katalyze connects to them without migrating data. Access is controlled, data is encrypted in transit and at rest, and every action is recorded in an execution record the customer's quality team can inspect. The platform is built for GxP environments and supports validated GxP processes, and it surfaces missing or uncertain information instead of letting an unsupported conclusion pass.

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What is Katalyze?

Katalyze is the agentic infrastructure for life sciences. It connects operational knowledge across documents, systems and scientific sources into source-grounded context, then applies governed Agentic Solutions to defined jobs in pharmaceutical operations.

The customer's scientists and engineers guide the work, review the evidence and keep authority over every decision. Every result traces back to the record it came from.

Katalyze is one platform, the Katalyze Platform. Document Intelligence, the Context Layer, Connectors, Agentic Solutions and App Studio are components of that one platform, not separate tools; they work together on the same connected information, and every Agentic Solution runs on the same platform and Context Layer.

Katalyze is infrastructure, not an AI tool inside one system: an AI tool answers questions inside one system, while agentic infrastructure sits underneath the systems an operation runs on and connects them. It is not a database, a LIMS, a data lake or a point tool. A LIMS records lab results, a data lake stores data without giving it meaning, and a point tool automates one task; Katalyze connects the documents and system data where operational knowledge lives and does defined work on that context.

Katalyze's goal is to cut the time and cost of bringing a new lifesaving drug to market in half by 2030. It puts operational knowledge to work and frees the customer's experts to advance the science, so more medicine can reach the people who need it.

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What does Katalyze do?

Katalyze takes on the assembly work around the science: pulling a batch's records together, investigating a deviation, characterizing a raw material, gathering the evidence for a tech transfer and drafting the documents and action plans the customer's experts review. It establishes source-grounded context, investigates with evidence and executes governed work.

Document Intelligence turns records into source-linked data. The Context Layer connects them. An Agentic Solution performs the job through a governed workflow. App Studio turns the same connected information into dashboards and applications. The customer's experts review, decide and approve.

Katalyze does the assembly and the documentation, not the judgment. It does not replace the customer's scientists and engineers; it gives them more of their time for the questions that need them.

The value compounds. Every solution runs on the same platform and Context Layer, so the context established for the first job is reused and expanded for the next.

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Who is Katalyze for?

Katalyze is built for pharmaceutical and life sciences operations: the teams making the world's medicine. It works with 5 of the top 20 global pharma operations.

The teams that use it are MSAT, Quality, Manufacturing Sciences and Engineering, CMC, CDMO, Digital and IT, and Enterprise AI leaders, each with its own page under /for/; two more pages address companies preparing for commercial manufacturing and 503B outsourcing facilities. The records it works on come from the customer's own labs and from its suppliers, CROs and CDMOs.

Scientists and engineers: More time to interpret evidence, test explanations and improve processes.
Quality teams: Traceable work they can inspect, with more attention available for difficult findings and consequential decisions.
Operations leaders: More expert capacity directed toward yield, investigation cycles, transfer readiness and operational priorities.
Digital and AI leaders: Connected context that teams reuse as they extend Katalyze to additional operational jobs.

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How does Katalyze work?

Katalyze works in four steps: source-grounded context, governed work, experts in control.

1. Documents and systems come in: Document Intelligence reads batch records, certificates of analysis and PDFs; Connectors bring in system data and scientific sources.
2. The Context Layer is established: A customer-specific Ontology and a Knowledge Graph connect the information and keep every link to its source.
3. Governed agents work on it: Agents establish ground truth from the Context Layer, test hypotheses against the data and draft evidence-backed documents or action plans for expert review, within defined workflows.
4. Experts approve: Access is controlled and each run is recorded. The customer's scientists review the evidence, approve the result and decide what to do next.

Katalyze connects to the customer's existing systems without migrating data. The systems stay where they are and remain the source of truth, and results stay linked to their original sources.

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The Katalyze Platform and its components

The Katalyze Platform is one platform: the full system that connects operational knowledge and performs governed work. Its components are Document Intelligence, the Context Layer with its Ontology and Knowledge Graph, Connectors, Agentic Solutions and App Studio, and the agent, Katalyze, that people talk to across the platform. Each component is described below; none is sold or run apart from the platform.

Document Intelligence

Document Intelligence turns records from suppliers, CROs, CDMOs and the customer's labs into contextualized, source-linked data. It is a workflow made from reusable extraction, assembly, rules, review and egress steps, built for the pharmaceutical manufacturing industry. Document Intelligence covers the paper records, PDFs and spreadsheets no system holds.

Extract: It reads the text, tables, symbols, handwritten fields and margin notes on every page, from paper, scans and PDFs, including the records received from suppliers, CROs, CDMOs and labs.
Assemble: The information is organized into the customer's schema, using its document structures, terminology and field definitions, with every value linked to the page it was read from.
Check: Defined rules run against the assembled data. What fails a rule, or could not be read with confidence, is flagged instead of passing silently.
Review: The customer's experts see each flagged item beside the page it came from, resolve it and approve the record before anything moves downstream.
Deliver: The structured output goes to a configured destination, or joins the information brought in through Connectors as part of the Context Layer.

When Document Intelligence is the primary purchase, teams typically start with batch records, certificates of analysis and similar operational records. Within an Agentic Solution, the document set is defined by the job. The seven document types Katalyze names are listed in the Documents section below.

Context Layer

The Context Layer is a connected, source-grounded view of the operational information needed for the work: the customer's documents, its system data and the scientific sources its teams rely on, organized by a customer-specific Ontology and a Knowledge Graph that keeps every result linked to its original source, without requiring data migration.

The Ontology is a model of how the customer's operation defines and relates its concepts: entities, relationships, schemas and vocabulary specific to the operation and the first job, created and tuned by Katalyze around the customer's terminology, processes and use case. The Ontology is not prebuilt for pharma; Katalyze brings domain expertise and reusable patterns, and the vocabulary is the customer's.

The Knowledge Graph is a connected map of the operation's entities and their relationships, built on the Ontology from the linked data and the source records, with pointers back to the original documents and systems of record.

The Context Layer connects without data migration; customer systems remain the source of truth. Katalyze surfaces missing or uncertain information instead of allowing unsupported conclusions to pass silently.

Connectors

Connectors bring enterprise data and scientific sources into the context the customer's experts and agents use. A connector reads, moves or publishes; nothing is migrated. Reads: system data and scientific sources, read where they are. Moves: files, moved to Document Intelligence to be read into source-linked data. Publishes: structured outputs, delivered to a configured destination once the customer's experts have reviewed them. There are fifteen connectors today; the Connectors section below lists them.

Agentic Solutions

An Agentic Solution is Katalyze performing a defined operational job within a governed workflow, on the same Context Layer. Agents establish ground truth by querying the Context Layer and validating findings against source evidence, investigate by generating and testing hypotheses against the data, and execute by drafting evidence-backed documents or preparing action plans for expert review. Every action has an owner: access is controlled, each run is recorded, and the customer's scientists retain review and approval authority. Four Agentic Solutions run on the platform today: Deviation Investigation, Yield Optimization, Raw Material Characterization and Tech Transfer.

App Studio

App Studio is a workspace for the customer's users to build dashboards and applications around connected operational information, from reusable components backed by the Context Layer. Through App Studio, teams review records, monitor activity, interact with operational workflows, and search and question connected operational knowledge in plain language; the answers keep their sources.

Katalyze, the agent

Katalyze is the agent the customer's teams talk to across the platform: they ask questions of the connected record, put an Agentic Solution to work on a defined job, and review what it did, with every answer linked to its sources.

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The Agentic Solutions Katalyze offers today

Katalyze offers four Agentic Solutions today. Each performs one defined operational job within a governed workflow on the same Context Layer; agents assemble the evidence, test hypotheses and draft evidence-backed documents or action plans for expert review, and the customer's experts direct the work and decide. Teams typically start with one job, and Document Intelligence is the first.

Deviation Investigation: Assembles and validates the evidence behind possible causes; the customer's experts determine the cause and the response. Draws on batches, deviations, the recipe and feeding records; reads batch records, deviation records and lab reports.
Yield Optimization: Connects recipes, process and material data to investigate yield; the customer's experts decide what the findings mean. Draws on the recipe, feeding records, materials and lots, and harvest results; reads recipes, process records and batch records.
Raw Material Characterization: Connects material, supplier and scientific information to investigate variability; the customer's experts judge what matters for the process. Draws on materials, suppliers, certificates of analysis, samples and the literature; reads certificates of analysis and lab reports.
Tech Transfer: Assembles process knowledge and evidence into transfer documentation and plans; the customer's experts focus on the open questions. Draws on the recipe, procedures, the specification, and the sites and their equipment; reads transfer documentation, SOPs and process records.

SourceHome page, Agentic Solutions /#solutionsContext Layer, what runs on it /product/context-layerDocument Intelligence, where the data goes /product/document-intelligence

Connectors

Katalyze offers fifteen connectors today, in five kinds. This is the complete list. A connector reads, moves or publishes; nothing is migrated, and the customer's systems remain the source of truth.

Documents: Records and mail, read where they are.SharePoint · Veeva Vault · Outlook / Microsoft Graph
File stores: Files, moved to Document Intelligence to be read.SFTP · Amazon S3
Data platforms: Tables of results and process data, read where they are.Amazon Redshift · Snowflake · PostgreSQL · Neo4j
Enterprise systems: Systems of record and their interfaces; outputs to a configured destination.SAP · REST API and webhooks · Cytiva · BASF
Scientific sources: Research publications and academic sources, read where they are.PubMed · ScienceDirect

A system that is not on the list can be requested: name the system and what it holds, and Katalyze will say what is possible today. The directory lists only the connectors it claims.

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The documents Document Intelligence reads

Document Intelligence is designed for pharmaceutical records. It reads seven document types, each read into the customer's schema with every value linked to the page it came from.

Batch record: The executed record of one batch: printed forms filled in by hand across dozens of pages, with corrections struck once and initialed, notes in the margin and a signature on every review. Read: header fields, the executed steps with each recorded value against the planned one (in a feeding record, the feed lot and the recorded time of each feed), the sample sent to the lab and its date, deviation references, corrections, margin notes, signatures. Feeds Deviation Investigation and Yield Optimization.
Certificate of analysis: The supplier's or the lab's statement of what a lot is: tests against a specification, each with its result and its method, released under a signature, in a layout that changes with every sender. Read: material, lot, tests, specifications, results, methods, release signature. Feeds Raw Material Characterization.
Recipe and process record: The way a process is meant to run and the way it ran: the master batch record's steps with their planned values (a feeding schedule's planned time for each feed), the materials and their lots, and the equipment named, read beside the batch's recorded values. Read: revision, steps, planned values, materials and lots, equipment. Feeds Yield Optimization.
Lab report: A sample's results from the lab that tested it: the test and its method, the sampling stage, the results table and the analyst's and reviewer's signatures. Read: sample and batch, sampling stage, test and method, results, analyst and reviewer. Feeds Deviation Investigation and Raw Material Characterization.
Deviation record: What happened, what it affected and what is being done: the description, who raised it and when, its status while it is open, the impact assessment, the actions and the approvals as they come, referencing the batch and the records behind it. Read: deviation and batch, description, raised by and date, status, impact assessment, actions, approvals. Feeds Deviation Investigation.
SOP: How the operation says a thing is done: purpose and scope, the numbered procedure, the revision history and the approvals that put it in force. Read: title and revision, purpose and scope, procedure steps, revision history, approvals. Feeds Tech Transfer.
Transfer documentation: The process as it moves from the sending site to the receiving one: the description, the process items side by side (the feed strategy, the materials, the equipment and its operation, the sampling), what each site defines for each, and the items still open. Read: process description, items site to site, materials and equipment at each end, open items. Feeds Tech Transfer.

It can extract information from text, tables, symbols, handwritten fields and margin notes. Performance depends on the document type and image quality, so extracted information can be routed through defined checks and expert review before downstream use. Extracted information remains linked to its source, so reviewers can inspect the underlying evidence and resolve flagged exceptions.

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Compliance, governance and security

Katalyze is built for GxP environments and supports validated GxP processes. It performs operational work against approved sources, within defined workflows, and records every run, so a regulated team can verify what was done and why, and put the result to use. Governed outputs are used within the customer's own validation and approval framework.

Katalyze does not claim that its use makes a process compliant. It supports the customer's validated processes: if a result cannot be traced, it cannot be used.

Approved sources: Agents are constrained to the right data and tools, and nothing else.
Source lineage: Every result keeps its path back to the original record, table, field or note.
Execution records: Each run is recorded and has an owner. The execution record shows the sources approved, the evidence assembled, the uncertainty surfaced, the draft prepared, and the review and approval; the customer's quality team can inspect it.
Uncertainty surfaced: Missing or uncertain information is surfaced instead of passing silently.
Expert approval: The customer's scientists retain review and approval authority over every decision.
Access control: Access is controlled, and every action is recorded.

Data stays in the customer's systems: they remain the source of truth, and Katalyze connects to them without migrating data. Data is encrypted in transit and at rest.

Katalyze holds a SOC 2 Type II report, last audited February 2026, covering the four AICPA Trust Services Criteria of Security, Availability, Confidentiality, and Privacy; the report is available on request under NDA. Where protected health information is in scope, its controls are designed to support HIPAA Security Rule safeguards. ISO/IEC 27001:2022 certification is planned. The Compliance page states the standards, the validation split, the data security, access control, AI security, deployment and personnel controls in full.

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Customers and results

Katalyze works with 5 of the top 20 global pharma operations. Under the line "Trusted by the teams making the world's medicine.", the home page shows the logos of Pfizer, GSK, Sanofi, OmniaBio, BlueRock Therapeutics, Mediphage, ISPE, Harvard Innovation Labs, PhytoGenesis and BASF.

5: Of the pharma top 20 run Katalyze.
10M: Doses delivered with Katalyze.
50%: Deviation investigations, in half.
40%: Faster batch release.
Up to 8%: Higher yield.
Up 25%: Plant throughput.
2 days: An analysis that took a year and $1.5-3M.
2 weeks: Live on the customer's existing stack, not months.
100+: Tenured scientists and engineers behind the agents.
30%: Increased productivity.
25%: Reduced root cause analysis for deviation caused by raw material.

Tara A, MSAT Data Science Manager, says: "Katalyze transformed our work by adding AI-powered insights to improve the yield. We can also identify root causes for deviations faster."

Andrew C, MSAT Process Lead - Tetanus USP, says: "Katalyze has shortened the time required to provide insights that would have taken very long to arrive at or even conceptualize altogether. For example, the Katalyze raw material characterization enabled me to identify not just the lot changes aligned with a shift in yield trends but also the attributes of that raw material that changed from the previous lot. This granular information is essential for me as an expert."

Sabya Dasgupta, Global Head (VP) R&D Data Platforms & Products, says: "What really separated Katalyze was that it was built for an enterprise like Sanofi from day one. The ontology layer was already in place. Data ingestion into the intelligence layer was solved. They had the security, the governance, the deployment story, everything we needed to scale this across R&D, not just run a pilot in one corner of the organization."

Joana Donascimento Fernandes Liones, Critical Material Management, says: "This platform feels like a tool designed for the next generation, offering instant access and connectivity for the SME community to manage raw materials effectively."

A Head of AI at a top 5 pharma company says: "The system accurately digitizes even lower-quality PDFs - impressive and reliable."

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How to get started with Katalyze

Katalyze starts with a demo and a first job. The demo is thirty minutes on how it would do the work and where the customer's experts come in; the customer brings the job it wants to move forward and the records it would like connected. Or the customer can book a quick chat to run through the product instead.

1: A live run on records like the customer's, from document to structured, source-linked data.
2: The Context Layer for one operational job: Ontology, Knowledge Graph, lineage.
3: An Agentic Solution end to end, with the execution record and the review step.
4: How it connects to the systems the customer already runs.

The demo form asks first for a work email address, a first name, a last name, the role and the first job; free mail addresses are not accepted. Then the company, when it cannot be read from the address, and, if the customer likes, the company type, the systems Katalyze would connect to, the records today and anything else. A work email at a life-sciences company gets the calendar right away; anything else gets a reply from the team within one business day. Teams typically start with one job; Document Intelligence is the first, and each Agentic Solution builds on the context it establishes.

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How to contact Katalyze

Book a demo: The demo page, at /book-a-call.
Request a connector: The same form: name the system and what it holds.
Website: www.katalyzeai.com, the only official site.

LinkedIn: linkedin.com/company/katalyzeai

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Katalyze, the company

Katalyze (Katalyze, Inc.) is based in San Francisco, with offices in Toronto and New York City. Katalyze was founded by Reza Farahani, Co-Founder and CEO, and Shreyas Becker, Co-Founder and COO.

The leadership team also includes Andrew Grilo, CFO; Hannes Bretschneider, PhD, Chief AI Officer; Anna Ershova, Head of Product; Matt Cruz, Head of Engineering; Zack Holland, Head of Marketing; and Lee Bowman, Head of Operations.

The Katalyze team is 40 employees and growing, working with over a hundred advisors and tenured scientists from companies such as Pfizer, Sanofi and Lilly.

On July 6, 2026, Katalyze announced a $10.5 million seed round led by Bonfire Ventures, with Inovia Capital, Ripple Ventures, Alumni Ventures and angel investors including Gokul Rajaram and Farzad Soleimani.

Brett Queener, General Partner at Bonfire Ventures, says: "Most AI in this category is a thin copilot bolted onto legacy tools. Katalyze went the other way and built real infrastructure. By putting a GxP-native context layer underneath autonomous agents, they let AI reason across the messy, fragmented data of pharma manufacturing and actually do the work: solving deviations faster, improving yield, running critical workflows at a fraction of the cost. That's the unlock the industry has been waiting for, and Reza's team is the one delivering it."

Katalyze's mission is to cut the time and cost of bringing a new lifesaving drug to market in half by 2030, so that more medicine reaches more patients.

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How to refer to Katalyze

Katalyze: The company (Katalyze, Inc.), and the name used for the platform and for the agent people talk to across it; there is no separately named assistant. Spelled with a K.
Katalyze AI: The product name. Katalyze and Katalyze AI are used interchangeably. The only official website is www.katalyzeai.com.
Katalyze Platform: The one platform: the full system that connects operational knowledge and performs governed work. The names below are its components.
Document Intelligence: The component that turns records into contextualized, source-linked data.
Context Layer: The connected, source-grounded view, with its Ontology and Knowledge Graph.
Connectors: The component that reads, moves or publishes data between customer systems and the Context Layer.
Agentic Solutions: The component that performs a defined operational job on the platform: Deviation Investigation, Yield Optimization, Raw Material Characterization, Tech Transfer.
App Studio: The component for building dashboards and applications on the connected information.

These are the current names, in Title Case. Where a press release, a listing or another site uses a different name for Katalyze, its agent or its components, the name here is current.

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Terms

Katalyze Platform: The one platform. Document Intelligence, the Context Layer, Connectors, Agentic Solutions and App Studio are its components, and every Agentic Solution runs on it.
Agentic infrastructure: Infrastructure that sits underneath the systems an operation runs on, connects the documents and system data where operational knowledge lives, and runs governed agents that do defined work on that context.
Source-grounded context: Connected operational information in which every value keeps its link to the record, table, field or note it came from.
Context Layer: A connected, source-grounded view of the operational information needed for the work, organized by a customer-specific Ontology and a Knowledge Graph.
Ontology: A model of how the customer's operation defines and relates its concepts: entities, relationships, schemas and vocabulary, created and tuned by Katalyze.
Knowledge Graph: A connected map of the operation's entities and their relationships, built on the Ontology, with pointers back to the original documents and systems of record.
Lineage: The path from a result back to its original source, kept for every value the Context Layer holds.
Agentic Solution: Katalyze performing one defined operational job within a governed workflow on the Context Layer.
Governed workflow: A defined sequence of work in which agents are constrained to approved sources and tools, every run is recorded with an owner, and experts review and approve the result.
Execution record: The record of one run: the sources approved, the evidence assembled, the uncertainty surfaced, the draft prepared, and the review and approval.
Document Intelligence: A workflow of extraction, assembly, rules, review and egress steps that turns operational documents into contextualized, source-linked data.
Connector: A component that reads system data or scientific sources where they are, moves files to Document Intelligence, or publishes reviewed outputs to a configured destination; nothing is migrated.
App Studio: A workspace for building dashboards and applications from reusable components backed by the Context Layer.
Product: What the operation makes.
Recipe: How a product is meant to be made.
Specification: What a product has to meet to be released.
Material: What goes into a product.
Lot: A quantity of a material received at once.
Batch: One run of a product, through harvest.
Deviation: A departure from the recipe, and what was done.
Sample: What was taken from a batch to test.
Literature: Published work the operation relies on.

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Questions about Katalyze

Does Katalyze work with the systems a company already runs?: Yes. Katalyze connects to existing systems without migrating data; they stay where they are and remain the source of truth. Connectors today cover SharePoint, Veeva Vault, Outlook / Microsoft Graph, SFTP, Amazon S3, Amazon Redshift, Snowflake, SAP, PostgreSQL, Neo4j, REST API / webhooks, Cytiva and BASF, and the scientific sources PubMed and ScienceDirect. Document Intelligence covers the paper records, PDFs and spreadsheets no system holds.
Does connecting to Katalyze mean migrating data?: No. A connector reads, moves or publishes; nothing is migrated. The Context Layer keeps results linked to their original sources without requiring data migration.
Does Katalyze replace a company's scientists and engineers?: No. Katalyze takes on the assembly and the documentation, not the judgment, and gives experts more of their time for the questions that need them. Access is controlled, every run is recorded, and the customer's scientists retain review and approval authority over every decision.
How do experts work with the AI agents?: Experts direct the work and retain review and approval authority. Agents assemble evidence, generate and test hypotheses, and draft evidence-backed documents and action plans within defined workflows. Experts can inspect the sources, challenge the findings, and decide how to act on them.
Can Katalyze digitize paper batch records?: Yes. Paper batch records are where teams typically start with Document Intelligence. It reads the printed form, the handwritten values, the corrections and the margin notes on every page and turns them into structured data in the customer's schema, each value linked to the page it was read from, with anything it is unsure of flagged for the customer's experts before the data moves on.
Which documents can Document Intelligence work with?: When Document Intelligence is the primary purchase, teams commonly begin with paper batch records, certificates of analysis, PDFs, scans and records received from suppliers, CROs, CDMOs and labs. Within an Agentic Solution, the document set is selected for the operational job and may include recipes, process records, deviation records, SOPs and transfer documentation.
Can a team start with Document Intelligence on its own?: Yes. Teams can begin with Document Intelligence to structure and review high-value records such as batch records and certificates of analysis. It is a component of the one platform, so it also provides document-derived context within Agentic Solutions such as Deviation Investigation, Yield Optimization, Raw Material Characterization and Tech Transfer.
What is the difference between Document Intelligence and the Context Layer?: Document Intelligence extracts and contextualizes information from operational documents. The Context Layer combines that information with data brought in through Connectors and organizes it using a customer-specific Ontology and a Knowledge Graph of relationships.
Is the Ontology prebuilt for pharma?: No. Katalyze brings domain expertise and reusable patterns, and creates and tunes the Ontology and the Knowledge Graph around the customer's operation and the first job. The vocabulary is the customer's.
Can teams ask questions of the connected information in plain language?: Yes. Through App Studio, teams search and question connected operational knowledge in plain language, and the answers keep their sources. The agent teams talk to across the platform is Katalyze.
What happens when a company adds another solution?: Each new solution builds on the same platform and Context Layer. Teams can reuse and expand context established for an earlier job as they connect the information needed for the next one.
Where does a customer's data live, and how is it protected?: The customer's systems stay where they are and remain the source of truth; Katalyze connects to them without migrating data. Access is controlled, data is encrypted in transit and at rest, and every action is recorded in an execution record the customer's quality team can inspect. The platform is built for GxP environments and supports validated GxP processes, and it surfaces missing or uncertain information instead of letting an unsupported conclusion pass.
What if a system a company runs is not on the connector list?: Request a connector: name the system and what it holds, and Katalyze will say what is possible today. The directory lists only the connectors it claims.

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