What is the Alethios Study Planner?

At Alethios, we believe building a high-quality human health study shouldn’t require tens of thousands of dollars, weeks of contracting, or a massive in-house clinical operations team. That’s why we built the Study Planner: a powerful, accessible tool designed to help researchers create, configure, and launch a rigorous virtual study from start to finish—for just $100/month.

The Study Planner is the centerpiece of the Alethios platform, and it brings together everything you need to run your study in a single, intuitive workspace. Whether you’re a Consumer Health company running your first or your hundredth consumer perception study or RCT, a biotech company doing your first pilot studies, a medical device company capturing user feedback, or an academic researcher exploring new endpoints, the Study Planner helps you design, digitize, and launch research quickly and affordably.

What Can You Do with the Alethios Study Planner?

Plan and Design Your Study

• Choose your study design: Single-arm observational, open-label RCT, crossover, parallel-arm RCT, and more.
• Set your enrollment target: Define how many participants you want, and by when.
• Use AI QuickStart: If you're still in the idea phase, describe your goals and intervention in natural language and receive a structured draft study design.
• Upload an existing protocol: Already have a draft or IRB-approved protocol? Upload it directly and have the system extract and pre-fill relevant details.

Build the Participant Experience

• Create eligibility screening: Add inclusion/exclusion logic, free-text review questions, file upload questions (e.g. photo or PDF), and branching logic.
• Define manual or automatic participant approval: Choose manual approval to closely vet early participants.
• Create onboarding flows: Build welcome messages, consent walkthroughs, demographic questions, and baseline surveys.
• Configure the participant app: Everything participants see and do in the web-based experience is fully configurable, including language, timelines, visuals, and tasks.
• Set adherence targets: Visualize what “compliant” participation looks like, for both participants and your team.

Add Core Study Components

• Library of validated instruments: Browse and select clinically validated PROMs to add to your protocol.
• Add wearables: Integrate supported wearable devices for passive data collection (step count, sleep, HRV, etc).
• Add at-home biomarker tests: Select biomarker tests via Alethios partners (first partner: Ash); configure delivery and instructions.
• Build your full Study Schedule: Digitally define what happens when—surveys, wearables, biomarkers, tasks, check-ins, instructions.

Recruit and Launch

• Create recruitment assets: Use AI to generate ad copy, social captions, and imagery based on your target audience and study goals.
• Set recruitment rules: Define quotas, demographic targets, and prescreening criteria.
• Configure compensation: Define incentives and automate post-study delivery.
• Set up study kits: Build your kit list, logistics rules, and participant instructions. Define how receipt and usage will be confirmed.
• Preview and test: View the full study experience as a participant to validate clarity and flow.
• Export for IRB: Download a complete IRB-ready protocol packet with design details and participant-facing materials.
• Freeze and launch: Lock your design to prevent changes, then publish and begin onboarding participants.

Collaborate and Manage

• Add collaborators: Invite teammates to view and edit your study.
• PI Pal support: Use our support chat assistant to get help with study design, logic, and best practices.
• Set safety contacts and event reporting: Configure who will be contacted for adverse events, and how they’ll be managed.

Best Practices When Using the Study Planner

1. Use AI QuickStart Thoughtfully
QuickStart is not a replacement for a finalized protocol, but a powerful way to start from zero. Provide a detailed description of your intervention, study goals, and population to get a structured, editable draft you can refine.

2. Preview and Test Your Study as a Participant
Before launching, always preview your study from the participant's perspective. The "Test as Participant" function is essential: it helps you understand the clarity of instructions, timing of tasks, and the overall study experience. We recommend this before sharing with teammates or submitting to IRB.

3. Start with Manual Participant Approval
For your first few participants, select manual approval to carefully review screening responses. This ensures your criteria are functioning as intended and helps you fine-tune your eligibility logic before enabling automatic approval.

4. Use the Study Schedule as a Communication Tool
Design a clear and motivating schedule. Use simple language, include visuals or videos, and explain why each step matters. This increases adherence and reduces participant confusion.

5. Leverage Validated Instruments
Use the built-in instrument library to strengthen your data. These instruments are pre-mapped for compliance and analytics.

6. Don’t Skip Kit Logistics
Even for fully virtual studies, plan exactly how kits will be received, confirmed, and used. Clear instructions and thoughtful delivery timelines go a long way in reducing dropout.

7. Ask Questions Early
Use PI Pal to get fast answers to protocol design questions, onboarding logic, or data collection best practices.

A Tool for Teams, a Platform for Progress

The Study Planner makes it possible to rapidly digitize and execute research that used to require entire departments and six-figure budgets. Whether you’re running a pre-market pilot, building evidence for a future claim, or launching your first decentralized trial, the Alethios Study Planner is where it all begins.

Still ideating? Start from scratch.
Already have a protocol? Upload and go.
Want to move fast? Try AI QuickStart.

Whatever rung you’re starting from on the research ladder, the Study Planner helps you climb.

Want a live demo? Book one directly at alethios.com.

Want a try it for free immediately? Sign up here: https://www.alethios.com/study-planner-free-trial-sign-up

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