Alcor Bio

KOL engagement for medical affairs, done for you

The right KOLs on your calendar. You just show up.

We find the KOLs and physicians you need, write outreach they actually answer, follow up until they do, book the calls around your diary and chase the CDA and agreement to signature. Done for you, or in our software if you'd rather run it yourself.

Done for you, from shortlist to signature Or run it yourself in our software Built from hands-on Phase 3 experience

The Alcor Bio command centre: progress against the brief, the next action to take today, and the pipeline from selection to signature.
Progress against your brief Every KOL, first email to signed

What Alcor Bio is

A KOL outreach team you don't have to hire. You tell us who you need. We find them, write to them, follow up, book the calls and send the paperwork, and you always know exactly where every conversation stands.

For
Medical affairs, MSL teams and medical directors at pharma, biotech, medtech, diagnostics and CROs.
Reaching
KOLs as advisors, consultants, board members, investigators and partners.
Covering
Everything from the shortlist to the signed agreement.
Replacing
The spreadsheet, the inbox searches, the calendar ping-pong, the sticky notes and the evenings spent chasing.

Sound familiar?

Does this sound like your week?

Finding KOLs is the easy part now. Getting dozens of busy physicians to reply, book and sign is where the weeks go. Tick what applies to you.

Presentation

Get to know Alcor Bio.

A short presentation: what we do, who it's for, and what changes for your team when someone else does the chasing. Press play, it plays right here.

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Before / after

A week in medical affairs, before and after Alcor Bio.

One medical affairs lead, dozens of busy KOLs, and what changes when every conversation lives in one place.

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Before Emailed Replied Call booked Documents out Signed

Inboxes, spreadsheets and sticky notes. Interested KOLs slip through.One place. Every KOL moving. Nobody gets lost.

What we do

Four jobs that used to take a team. We do all four.

Whether we run it for you or you run it yourself, this is the engine underneath. Every screen below is the real product.

1 · The right people

Only the KOLs who fit your brief.

Tell us who you need in a sentence. We rank physicians against your brief and show you why each one fits, so every conversation is worth starting. You approve the list before anyone is contacted.

  • Require what matters: guideline authorship, industry trial experience, patient volume
  • Each match gets a suggested role: advisor, consultant, site PI or either
  • Already have names? We add your own list alongside

See discovery in the product

A ranked list of new candidates with a fit score, a suggested role such as Site PI or KOL consultant, and the reason for it.
New candidates, most relevant first, each with a fit score and a suggested role.

2 · Emails they answer

Every top KOL is courted by someone. Our emails get read.

Your KOL reads email between patients. Each message speaks to their own work, their paper, their trial, their institution, and asks for one clear thing. Worth the 30 seconds they have.

  • Written by people who have run KOL outreach on a Phase 3 program
  • Two versions tested, so the better one wins
  • Nothing goes out until you approve it

See outreach in the product

The first email editor with two versions, the sender's own address, a subject line and a message that fills in each KOL's publication and institution.
One email, two versions, written for every KOL.

3 · Nobody slips away

They don't say no. They just don't reply. So we follow up.

Anyone who hasn't answered gets the next email on the day we agreed. Anyone who said yes and went quiet gets the booking link again. Each sequence stops the moment they reply.

  • Calls booked only at times that work for you and your colleagues, across time zones
  • CDA, project deck and agreement sent in the order each person needs, then chased
  • You hear from us only when a person is needed

See calls and follow-ups

The email flow: the first email with two versions, splitting into follow-ups for people who have not replied and for people who said yes but have not booked.
Two kinds of follow-up: one for silence, one for a yes without a time.

4 · A clear picture

"Where are we?" Answered in one screen.

Who replied, who's booked, who's signed, and what needs you today, in order. No afternoon of digging before a status meeting, and nothing to rebuild for your boss.

  • Every KOL marked cold, warm, hot or engaged
  • One record per person: emails, calls, notes and documents
  • Progress against your brief, at a glance

See the CRM in the product

A list titled Needs you today: send a CDA, choose what to send after a call, record a call outcome, book a time for a KOL who went quiet.
"Needs you today": the next step for each person, in order.

When to call us

Whenever you need a physician's view.

Advisory boards, feasibility, protocol advice, investigators. If the work depends on getting busy physicians on a call, it's our job.

Medical & market insight

Hear from the experts who shape the field.

Paid advice from physicians who know the disease, the patients and how care is really delivered.

Call us when you're

  • building an advisory board, or filling the last seats
  • testing a drug, a product idea or a market opportunity
  • mapping real-world clinical practice or product use
  • seeding the market ahead of a launch
Clinical development

Get the trial designed and staffed.

Consultants who sharpen your protocol, and investigators with the patients and the experience to run it.

Call us when you're

  • running an in-house feasibility study
  • designing or revising a protocol: design, criteria, endpoints
  • looking for principal investigators and sites, in a new country too
  • partnering with KOLs on a program

Advisor, consultant or investigator? Often all three.

One physician can advise on your protocol, sit on your board and run a site. We keep the relationship in one record, whatever the role, so nobody is asked twice or forgotten.

Candidates tagged Site PI, KOL consultant or Either seat.

Two ways to work with us

We do it for you. Or you do it in Alcor Bio.

Same system, same results. The only question is who presses send.

We do it for youRecommended

You just show up to the calls.

Hand us the brief. We find the KOLs, write and send the outreach, follow up, book the calls into your calendar and chase the CDA and agreement until they're signed.

What we take off your plate

  • A shortlist of physicians who fit, with the reason for each
  • Outreach written for busy KOLs, approved by you
  • Every follow-up, reminder and reschedule
  • Calls booked around your calendar and your colleagues'
  • CDA, deck and agreement, chased to signature
  • A weekly update: who replied, who's booked, who's signed

Best for teams with no spare hands, a hard deadline, or KOLs you can't afford to lose.

You run it in Alcor Bio

One coordinator. The reach of a whole team.

Use the same system yourself. Connect your mailbox and calendar, choose who to contact, approve the emails, and Alcor Bio runs the follow-ups, booking and paperwork.

What's inside

  • Discovery ranked against your brief
  • Personal emails from your own mailbox, A/B tested
  • Two kinds of follow-up that stop on reply
  • Booking links across everyone's calendar
  • CDA, deck and agreement in order, per person
  • A CRM that shows what needs you today

Best for teams with a coordinator who wants control and a lower cost per KOL.

Inside the product

The engine behind the service, screen by screen.

This is what we run your project on, and what you'd use if you run it yourself.

KOL discovery: filters on the left and a ranked list of candidates with fit scores and suggested roles.

Ranked against your brief, with a reason for each.

Describe who you need. Alcor Bio returns the physicians who fit, their fit score, a suggested role and why. Filter by credentials, patient volume, trial experience and geography, and hide anyone already in the project.

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Screens show sample data.

How it works

Turnkey. Tell us who you need. We take it from there.

Four steps, and only one of them needs much of your time. Prefer to run it yourself? It's the same four steps, inside the software.

  1. Brief us in 30 minutes

    The project, the kind of physicians you need, how many, by when, and who joins the calls on your side.

  2. Approve the shortlist and the emails

    We send you a ranked list with the reason for each name, and the outreach we'll use. Your compliance team can review it. Nothing goes out until you say so.

  3. We reach out and keep it moving

    Emails, follow-ups, booking, rescheduling and the CDA → deck → agreement sequence. Every week you see where everyone stands.

  4. You show up to the calls

    Calls land in your calendar with the KOL's profile attached. After the call, we send the paperwork and chase the signature.

What you won't need

  • A new hire to chase replies
  • Evenings writing forty "personal" emails
  • Another spreadsheet of who said what
  • Calendar Tetris across three time zones

Who it's for

Built for medical affairs.

Alcor Bio is for you if you…

  • lead medical affairs, an MSL team or medical strategy at a pharma, biotech, medtech, diagnostics company or CRO
  • need KOLs for an advisory board, an expert opinion, a feasibility study, a protocol or your sites
  • have dozens of physicians to reach, not one or two
  • are short on hands and long on deadlines
  • were hired for strategy, not for chasing

Built from hands-on experience

Our founder ran KOL identification and outreach for the feasibility study and protocol work of a Phase 3 trial at a life sciences company. Finding the KOLs was easy. Keeping dozens of conversations moving by hand wasn't. So we built the system that was missing, and now we run it for other teams.

What Alcor Bio isn't

Not a data vendor, and not a CRO. We don't run your sites or your study. Our job ends at the signed agreement; the science stays with your team.

Questions

What people ask first.

Something else on your mind? Bring it to the intro call.

What exactly do you do for us?

Everything between "we need KOLs" and "the agreement is signed". We build the shortlist, write the outreach, send it and follow up, book the calls into your calendar and chase the CDA and agreement. You approve the list and the emails, then you show up to the calls.

How is this different from a KOL database?

A database tells you who. We get them to answer. Names are easy to find now. Replies, booked calls and signed agreements are the hard part, and that's the part we do.

Who do the KOLs hear from?

Every email is approved by you before it goes out, and we agree up front whose name and mailbox it's sent from. If you use the software, emails go from your own mailbox and replies land back next to each person's record.

Is the outreach compliant?

We write for scientific exchange and paid advisory work, never to promote a product. Your medical, legal and compliance teams can review every template first. Every email carries an opt-out, and opt-outs are honoured straight away. Fair market value and contract terms stay with your team.

How quickly can you start?

We agree the brief on the intro call. The aim is a shortlist for you to approve within a week, with the first emails going out right after.

How much does it cost?

Done-for-you is priced per project and agreed up front, so there are no surprises. The software is an annual subscription. You'll have a number for your project at the end of the intro call.

What is KOL identification and engagement?

Key opinion leaders (KOLs) are physicians and scientists whose expertise shapes how a disease is treated. KOL identification means finding the right ones for a specific need, such as an advisory board, a protocol review or a trial site. Engagement is everything after that: the first email, the follow-ups, the call, the CDA and the signed agreement. Alcor Bio does both, and most of the work is in the second part.

Do you work with medtech, diagnostics and CROs, or only pharma?

All of them. We work with pharma, biotech, medtech, diagnostics companies and CROs, and with any life sciences team that needs physicians' input. The work usually sits with medical affairs or MSL teams, but we also support clinical operations, clinical development, R&D and business development.

Which therapeutic areas and countries do you cover?

Your brief decides. We search for physicians by indication, expertise, publications, trial experience and location, so we can work in any therapeutic area where physician expertise matters, and across countries and time zones.

Can we use our own list of KOLs?

Yes. Send us your list and it sits alongside the physicians we find, in the same pipeline.

Do my colleagues need accounts?

No. A medical director or regulatory lead who only joins calls never signs in. Their calendar is synced so KOLs are only offered times that work for everyone.

What happens after a KOL signs?

That's where our job ends. We get you from the first email to the signed agreement, and the work itself carries on with your team and your tools.

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Tell us who you need. We'll get them on your calendar.

A 30-minute call about your project. We'll tell you how we'd run it, how long it would take and what it would cost. If we're not the right fit, we'll say so.

  1. 5 minYour project, and who you need to reach
  2. 15 minHow we'd run it: the shortlist, the outreach, the timeline
  3. 10 minYour questions, and a price for your project

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