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A Complete and Agile Platform
“The platform is simple, beautiful, and ensures top-notch quality and security. It brought our vision of a 100% digital CRO to life.” - Thais Pontes, CEO & Founder
Artha Clinical Research Organization (CRO) is a Brazilian company based in Rio de Janeiro, founded in 2021 by Thais Pontes, a pediatric doctor with ten years of clinical research experience in pediatric oncology in France, and her partner Arnaud.
Following the COVID-19 pandemic and some pivotal personal events, Thais decided to take on new challenges and build her own company: a CRO focused on quality, transparency, and fully digital
When Thais founded Artha, she didn’t start from an existing model but from a vision: a lean, high-performing, fully digital CRO.
However, Brazil’s local reality quickly brought its own constraints. The country presents a paradox: strong demand for clinical trials, but few trained professionals willing to commit long-term. Recruiting and retaining talent became a real challenge, made worse by the competition from large international players.
On the operational side, everything had to be built from scratch. The company had no digital tools to manage trials. The eCRF systems Thais was familiar with from the pharma world were complex, expensive, and poorly suited to small teams. Digitizing this part of the process initially felt out of reach.
Then came the local specificities: strict Brazilian regulations, active ethics committees, slow administrative processes, language barriers, and geographical distances making on-site audits difficult. Efficiency seemed almost impossible under these conditions, especially for a company aiming to be agile and transparent with clients.
That’s when Thais realized that Artha’s success would depend on finding the right partners: ones who could support her vision, not restrict it.
Thais discovered Datacapt at a professional conference in 2022, and the match was immediate: the ideal partner to digitize Artha’s clinical operations.
Unlike the complex and costly pharma tools, Datacapt offered an intuitive interface, lightning-fast training (just a few minutes for a physician to be fully up and running), and responsive support, including Brazilian Portuguese after a quick language adaptation.
At the time, Artha’s team was formalizing their processes and procedures: the foundation of their future operations. Discovering Datacapt revealed a unique opportunity: to build a modern, agile organization powered by a tool that could structure and streamline clinical activity. More than just a software solution, Datacapt addressed many of the critical challenges the team was facing.
From the very first project, Artha was won over by Datacapt’s promise of rapid implementation. Within a week, the team had a fully operational EDC system, ready to collect and secure data. This fast setup came with nearly instant onboarding, the interface’s simplicity allowed physicians and CRAs to work independently, without time-consuming training.
Beyond agility, what truly set Datacapt apart was its ability to adapt to Artha’s quality standards. Whether it was validated processes or built-in controls, the platform was easily configured to match specific needs while automating Good Clinical Practice (GCP) compliance tracking.
Sponsors also benefited immediately from secure, remote access to study progress, boosting transparency and mutual trust. This always-on visibility, with zero extra effort from the team, helped stabilize operations and minimize disruptions caused by team changes.
By combining ultra-fast deployment with a highly configurable and secure platform, Datacapt naturally became Artha’s solution of choice. Today, it powers 100% of their studies, a tangible example of the perfect balance between operational agility and quality excellence.
Concrete Benefits:
50% Efficiency Gains and Controlled Growth
Rolling out Datacapt for Artha’s first studies marked a strategic turning point. The platform was adopted within hours, even by local physicians, thanks to its intuitive design and quick training. For Thais, it was the first time an EDC truly lived up to the promise of simplicity and accessibility.
But the impact went far beyond ease of use. With complete data digitalization via Datacapt, Artha estimates a direct 50% reduction in clinical staffing needs compared to “traditional” setups a significant gain for a fast-scaling organization.
The platform also boosted Artha’s resilience to staffing changes. With standardized and well-documented processes, the effects of turnover or sudden workload increases were minimized. This allowed the company to scale confidently, even with complex projects, without compromising on quality.
For clients, Datacapt’s real-time transparency — giving sponsors access to their data at any moment — strengthened trust and engagement. Today, 100% of Artha’s studies use Datacapt. Even more: it has become a true commercial differentiator, fully aligned with Thais’s founding vision.
Artha is not your typical CRO. It was born from a bold vision: clinical research that’s simpler, more transparent, more efficient, and fully digital. But in a complex ecosystem, making that vision a reality required more than just a tool — it required a true partner.
With Datacapt, Thais found that rare alliance. A secure, intuitive, fast-to-deploy solution that fits into the team’s daily workflow and supports growth without sacrificing quality.
This partnership not only helped Artha fulfill its promise of modernity — it also created lasting value for both clients and teams.
Today, Datacapt is far more than an EDC at Artha. It’s the technological backbone of a new way to run clinical research: smoother, more human, and aligned with today’s needs.
