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About Asthra

We're building the writing layer for regulated science.

Asthra was founded by a team that has lived inside the regulatory writing process — and a team that has built large-scale AI systems. We bring those two worlds together so writers get leverage without losing trust.

Regulatory writing is one of the most consequential text-creation jobs in the world. A CSR can decide whether a drug reaches patients. A PSUR can flag a safety signal years before it would surface otherwise. The text matters — and the provenance of the text matters even more.

Generic AI doesn't fit this work. Hallucinations are a non-starter. Open-internet retrieval pollutes the source set. “Rewrite this paragraph” is not the unit of work that ships.

So we built Asthra around the actual unit of work: a section, drafted from a writer-approved source set, cited at the sentence level, reviewed by a human, and shipped with an audit ledger. Speed without compromising compliance.

Principles

How we build.

PRINCIPLE / 01

Writers stay in charge

The agent proposes; the writer disposes. Every retrieval plan, every source decision, every section is reviewable before anything ships. Asthra never overrides judgment.

PRINCIPLE / 02

Closed beats clever

We chose closed-system retrieval over the open internet, deterministic citations over plausible-sounding synthesis, and explicit gap flags over confident guessing. Less magic, more trust.

PRINCIPLE / 03

The ledger stays with the document

Audit readiness can't depend on a vendor staying in business. Every claim, every retrieval, every edit is captured in an append-only ledger embedded in the .docx itself.

Team

Who's behind Asthra.

A small founding team of regulatory-writing operators and AI engineers. Backed by advisors from pharma safety, regulatory affairs, and applied AI.

SN
Sangnan AI Founders
Founding team
Engineering and product leads with prior experience shipping document-intensive AI products and regulated SaaS.
VD
Varun Dua
Advisor · Pharmacovigilance
Founder of PV Analytica. Two decades in pharmacovigilance and aggregate safety reporting.
RA
Regulatory advisors
Advisory network
Senior medical writers, regulatory leads, and quality-assurance heads who shape how Asthra writes for each module type.
Backed by

Built on Claude. Designed for pharma.

AnthropicClaude API · enterprise
MicrosoftWord add-in · partner
PV AnalyticaSafety advisory
+ pilot partnersPharma · device

Talk to the team.

We're early, focused, and selective about pilots. If your team writes regulated documents, we'd like to hear about your process.