How a panel works
Standing, not recruited fresh. Engaged on demand.
- 01
Recruit
Assemble panel members in the disease and market mix you need.
- 02
Engage
Spin up touchpoints on demand: surveys, interviews, co-design.
- 03
Renew
Keep relationships warm. Come back to the same voices.
Why a standing panel
The panel is ready before the question lands
Months saved compound across a product lifecycle. Same voices across R&D, trials, and launch, instead of starting from scratch each round.
Days, not weeks
Engage your panel in 2 to 5 days, not 4 to 8.
Relationships, not recruits
Ongoing trust, less attrition, deeper context across waves.
One panel, many touchpoints
Same voices across R&D, trials, and launch.
Real-life case studies
Global diagnostics company · 2023
One panel, three product teams, and a clear answer: text, not app
- The needThree product teams, in heart failure, cognitive impairment and cancer, needed patient input during fast development sprints.
- What the panel didOne standing panel, under one contract, served all three teams for about six months.
- What changedThe heart-failure team tested reminders with 5 patients over 6 days. Most preferred a simple text-message link to the app the team had started building.





heart-failure patients chose a text-message link over the app
Global biopharma · Type 2 diabetes · 2026
Every step of a diabetes trial, tested by the patients who would live it
- The needA trial programme needed to know where patients would struggle, from signing consent to staying in the study.
- What the panel didOne patient pool in the US, UK and Poland worked through six parts of the trial experience over about six months.
- What changedThe trial team received 22 recommendations, with anything that could derail enrolment, safety or data quality flagged first.
recommendations for the trial team
Frequently asked questions
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