Strategy · Capability · Platform

A better operating model for medical device development.

Strategy, team, and platform — built on one graph that connects every requirement, BOM line, risk, and test result from concept through post-market.

Built by operators who have taken Class II medical devices through FDA clearance — including De Novo, the first-of-kind pathway — and EU MDR. From operators, to operators.

SOC 2 Type II
In active preparation
Auditor engaged · target Q3 '26
ISO 27001
In active preparation
target Q4 '26
Data residency
EU primary (eu-central-1)
Optional US, per-tenant isolation
Incorporated
Bern, Switzerland
GDPR · eIDAS · ZertES
Responsible AI
No training on your data
Every API call audited
The Problem

Disconnected disciplines delay every milestone.

Three structural defects in how regulated devices get built today — and three reasons every program runs late.

Walled off.

ALM, PLM, and QMS sit in separate tools with separate owners. Changes don't cross the wall; they get re-typed.

Sequential.

Requirements → design → V&V → manufacturing → post-market runs as hand-offs, not concurrency. Every stage waits.

Stale.

Trace matrices are reconstructed weeks before audits. The DHF is always a retroactive artifact, never a live view.

Traditional stack

Welded.
  • Walled-off ALM, PLM, QMS
  • Sequential hand-offs between disciplines
  • Trace matrices rebuilt before every audit
  • PDFs, email, and tribal knowledge
  • Post-market signals never reach the next revision

Avera

Unified.
  • One graph — requirements, BOM, risk, V&V, post-market
  • Concurrent work, graph-enforced traceability
  • Impact analysis as a database primitive
  • LiveDocs that query the graph
  • Closed loop from field complaint to next revision

The fragmentation is not just organizational. It is architectural.

Who it's for

One positioning. Four entry points.

Ventures, corporates, engineering firms, and investors buy different outcomes — on the same underlying operating model.

How Avera works

Three pillars. One operating model.

Not a software vendor that bolted on services. A coordinated delivery model with three equal offerings — strategy, enablement, and the platform.

01 · The Roadmap

Regulatory &
product strategy.

A practitioner-led engagement that produces a defensible pathway to clearance, a quality-system blueprint, and a development plan calibrated to your runway.

  • Jurisdictional submission plan
  • QMS blueprint & hiring roadmap
  • Pre-seeded risk framework
  • Fixed-fee, 4–8 weeks
02 · The Capability

Team
enablement.

Structured upskilling of your core team on the meta-model, traceability, and review workflows — hands-on with your own program data.

  • Graph-fluency curriculum
  • Review calibration sessions
  • Audit simulation
  • Certification gate before go-live
03 · The Engine

The AI-augmented
platform.

Graph-native workspace with LiveDocs, Explorer mount, and Claude-via-MCP proposals. Billing starts only once the team is certified.

  • LiveDocs that query the graph
  • Windows Explorer mount
  • AI proposals, human approval gate
  • Immutable audit ledger

Billing on the platform starts only after the team is certified. You don't pay for unreadiness.

The Platform

AI proposes. The graph enforces. The human decides.

Deterministic core beneath a probabilistic intelligence layer, separated by an explicit human approval gate. Not a feature — a structural choice.

Probabilistic · Avera AI

Proposes, challenges, improves.

Drafts risk analyses, V&V protocols, submission sections. Claude via MCP. Context-scoped to the nodes it touches.

↓ Human approval gate ↓

Deterministic · Avera Core

System of record.

Immutable audit trail. Electronic signatures (eIDAS, ZertES). Graph-native traceability. 21 CFR Part 11 compliant.

Every AI suggestion requires human approval before entering the system of record.

No training on customer data. Every API call audited. Per-item opt-in. The graph is the source of truth; the AI is an assistant with a leash.

  • ReplacesJama · Polarion · Windchill · Arena · standalone QMS
  • IntegratesSolidWorks · Altium · MATLAB · Jira · Confluence (via Explorer mount)
  • Outputs510(k), eSTAR, MDR technical files — generated live from graph data
  • AuditEvery change attributable. Every API call logged. Trace-current by construction.
Why us

From operators, to operators.

Avera was built by people who have run regulated medical-device programs end-to-end — from first design input through FDA clearance (510(k) and De Novo), EU MDR, and post-market surveillance.

We've sat in the regulatory chair, the design chair, the manufacturing chair, and the audit chair. We know what every existing tool gets wrong because we used them all.

Not consultants who studied this market. Operators who lived in it, and built the system we wished existed.

FDA pathways
510(k) · De Novo
EU framework
MDR · IEC 62304
Standards
ISO 13485 · 14971
Lived through
Audits · post-market · recalls
M

Michael

Co-founder · Regulatory & product

Led regulated medical-device programs through FDA De Novo and EU MDR clearance. Hired the RA/QA teams, survived the audits, and rebuilt the DHF three times before deciding the tools were the problem.

R

Romain

Co-founder · Platform & architecture

Built the graph-native engine behind Avera Core after a decade of watching relational PLM and ALM tools paper over a structural mismatch. Believes traceability is a database primitive or it isn't real.

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Bring your next program to a graph, not a folder.

A 30-minute call with the founders. Tell us about your device. We'll tell you the path.

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