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Where Silogram fits next to what you use.

Publication and medical-writing teams usually combine a planning suite, an AI writing tool and their statisticians' code. Here is what each kind of product documents publicly, and what Silogram adds: the path from the analysis code to the signed document.

Comparison as of 5 October 2026, from public materials only. Corrections

Three kinds of product, one gap between them.

Publication-planning suites

Plan the publications

Pubstrat MAX, iEnvision Datavision, PubsHub, Veeva Publications, Mavens Scientific Publications Cloud, SCIMAX PUBS and PubPro plan publications across a portfolio, run workflows and approvals; most also hold journal and congress data.

With Silogram: the plan says what to publish and when; Silogram takes each document from the analysis code to signed, and forecasts when it will get there.

AI regulatory and medical writers

Draft from source documents

Products such as Yseop Copilot, Certara CoAuthor, Weave, Peer AI, Narrativa, Artos, Asthra and AuroraPrime draft CSRs, protocols and summaries from tables, listings and prior documents.

With Silogram: drafting starts from the analysis code itself, so when the analysis changes and the document syncs, every linked number updates and Silogram shows what moved.

Code-to-document platforms

Run and trace the analysis

Posit, Quarto, Code Ocean, Domino and SAS LSAF help statisticians run R, Python or SAS and keep their outputs reproducible; Verisian uses AI agents to generate and validate analysis code, data and results with full traceability.

With Silogram: the code stays where it is. Silogram reads it read-only and carries its numbers into the documents that writers, reviewers and approvers sign.

Side by side with the products built for the same job.

Publication-planning suites and AI writers, like Silogram, exist to get documents written and approved. Each cell summarises the products reviewed in that category; the numbered note explains it and names the products.

Yes: documented by most products reviewed in the category
Partial: documented by some, or in a limited form
Not documented: not found in any reviewed product's public materials

Silogram, publication-planning suites and AI regulatory and medical writers, by capability
Capability	Silogram	Publication-planning suites (7)	AI regulatory and medical writers (19)
Publication planning and approval workflow1	Partial	Yes	Partial
Journal and congress requirements2	Partial	Yes	Partial
AI drafting of first drafts or sections3	Yes	Partial	Yes
AI and agent edits arrive only as tracked suggestions a person accepts4	Yes	Partial	Partial
Word round-trip with real tracked changes5	Yes	Partial	Partial
Reads the analysis code (SQL, R or Python in Git)6	Yes	Not documented	Not documented
Each number linked to the code line and commit that produced it7	Yes	Not documented	Partial
Numbers linked to a source table, dataset or document8	Yes	Not documented	Partial
Re-runs the team's analysis in an isolated sandbox to check cited outputs9	Yes	Not documented	Not documented
Regulatory documents (CSR, protocol, SAP, CTD Module 2)10	Yes	Partial	Yes
Payer and HTA dossiers (AMCP, EU JCA, MolDX)11	Yes	Not documented	Partial
House style learned from the team's past documents12	Yes	Partial	Partial
Bring your own AI model or agents13	Yes	Partial	Partial
Audit trail and e-signatures for 21 CFR Part 11 work14	Yes	Partial	Partial
Most-likely and 90% completion dates for each document15	Yes	Partial	Partial
Each week of delay priced against the access decision it holds up16	Yes	Not documented	Not documented

Tools teams combine instead.

Code-to-document platforms and general AI writing tools serve different main purposes: running analyses, and writing in general. Teams often stitch them together to do what Silogram does in one place.

Silogram, code-to-document platforms and general AI and writing tools, by capability
Capability	Silogram	Code-to-document platforms (10)	General AI and writing tools (4)
Reads the analysis code6	Yes	Yes	Partial
Re-runs the team's own analysis code in an isolated sandbox9	Yes	Yes	Not documented
Each number linked to the code line and commit7	Yes	Partial	Not documented
AI drafting3	Yes	Partial	Yes
AI edits only as tracked suggestions4	Yes	Partial	Partial
Word round-trip with real tracked changes5	Yes	Partial	Partial
Regulatory documents10	Yes	Partial	Partial
Payer and HTA dossiers11	Yes	Not documented	Not documented
Bring your own AI model or agents13	Yes	Partial	Partial
Audit trail and e-signatures for Part 11 work14	Yes	Partial	Partial

What Silogram doesn't do.

Knowing where a product stops is part of choosing it.

Franchise-wide publication plans. Silogram plans each document from its start date and forecasts it against its target date. A planning suite remains the place for a multi-year plan across many products, KOL and author agreements, and large journal and congress databases.
Running your statistics environment. Your code keeps running where it runs now. Silogram only reads the repository (a read-only token is enough) and re-runs it only on a runner you install, or in its hosted sandbox for data with no PHI.
Replacing writers or agencies. People write and decide. Writers, agencies and agents all work in the same draft, and every edit an agent makes waits for a person to accept it.

Notes

1All seven planning suites reviewed document publication planning, workflow and approvals. Silogram lays out each document's plan from its start date, forecasts whether it will meet its target date, and runs reviews and e-signed sign-off; teams that manage full publication plans across a franchise may keep a planning suite alongside it. Among AI writers, Sorcero describes publication and congress intelligence, and AuroraPrime, IBM Regulate.AI and Hexaware MedWriter.ai document review and approval workflows; managing a publication plan was not documented.
2Silogram shows each journal requirement in its catalog with the sentence it came from, and marks fields it could not verify; congress requirements are not catalogued yet. Planning suites document venue data or targeting: Pubstrat MAX (Journal Selector and Conference Authority), PubsHub Journals & Congresses (ICON states 5,500+ journals and 4,400+ congresses), PubPro, Mavens and SCIMAX PUBS. Among AI writers, Sorcero states adherence to CONSORT, STROBE, ICMJE and GPP 2022 and offers congress intelligence; journal-specific requirements were not documented. Among general tools, Paperpal Preflight checks a manuscript's readiness for submission.
3Planning suites: Mavens and SCIMAX PUBS generate plain-language summaries, and Veeva describes Publications as AI-enabled; drafting full manuscripts was not documented for the suites themselves (Envision describes AI-assisted first-draft manuscripts as part of its own team's work). AI writers document drafting across the group. Code-to-document: Verisian generates submission documents and Stencila has AI agents. General tools: Microsoft 365 Copilot drafts in Word; Paperpal and Overleaf offer AI writing help.
4In Silogram, model and agent edits arrive as tracked suggestions under the agent's name, and a person accepts or rejects each one. Asthra states that every change its agent makes comes back as a tracked change or a before-and-after diff, and that the agent cannot switch tracking off; press coverage reports that Collate requires human verification before documents are exported; Sorcero describes mandatory expert review; IBM describes human-in-the-loop review for Regulate.AI. Among planning suites, SciMax routes AI-generated plain-language summary drafts to writers and editors for refinement and approval, and Mavens' AI quality check flags gaps and inconsistencies before submission. Among code-to-document platforms, Stencila documents that its AI agents can propose edits as suggestions a person reviews before accepting, and Verisian says experts review and approve its AI outputs. Microsoft says Copilot in Word respects Track Changes: when it is on, Copilot's edits are tracked.
5Silogram exports to Word with real tracked changes and imports a co-author's Word edits as suggestions. Veeva Publications documents co-authoring in Microsoft 365, and Veeva Vault keeps Word tracked changes in the source document; SCIMAX PUBS authors in Microsoft 365; Datavision's doDOC shows tracked changes in the browser. Asthra documents enforced tracked changes; several AI writers are Word add-ins whose tracked-change handling is not documented. Quarto outputs Word. Copilot's edits in Word are tracked when Track Changes is on, and Paperpal has a Word add-in.
6Code-to-document platforms are built to run R, Python or SAS (Posit, Code Ocean, Domino, SAS LSAF, Quarto, Hex); Verisian builds its traceability by analysing the study's specifications, code and data. The Posit AI assistant works on code in RStudio and Positron. Reading the team's analysis code was not documented by the planning suites or AI writers reviewed.
7Silogram links each live number to the commit that produced it, and to the line of code when the analysis records that line in its values file; its number audit flags numbers typed by hand. An analyst's verification of a cohort, variable or endpoint definition goes stale when that code changes. Verisian states that its audit trail connects every response to health-authority questions to the code, data and result it is based on, and Quarto computes numbers from code inside the document; per-number commit links were not documented. Asthra's own analysis agent logs the exact code that produced each output it computes; linking numbers to the customer's own code and commit was not documented by the AI writers reviewed.
8Narrativa links through to the source table or dataset, Weave cites a source file for each table cell, and Peer AI, Artos (Source Tracer), AuroraPrime and Asthra (sentence-level citations) document source links. Yseop, Sorcero, IBM Regulate.AI and Biolevate describe outputs as traceable to their sources without documenting number-level links. Verisian documents an audit trail to the code, data and result behind each response, and Code Ocean documents provenance to code, data and environment.
9Silogram re-runs the analysis at a commit in a container with no network access and compares the outputs with those the documents cite, on the customer's own runner inside its network or, for data without PHI, in a hosted sandbox. Reproducible execution is central to code-to-document platforms (Code Ocean capsules, Domino, Posit, Quarto). Running the customer's own analysis code was not documented by the AI writers reviewed. Microsoft 365 Copilot's code interpreter writes and runs its own Python in a sandbox; re-running a team's existing analysis code was not documented by the general tools reviewed.
10AI writers document CSR, protocol and IND drafting across the group (for example Yseop, Certara CoAuthor, Weave, Peer AI, Narrativa, Asthra and AuroraPrime). Verisian drafts CSR sections and reviewer's guides, and Posit cites use in submission workflows. Among planning suites, doDOC (Datavision's co-authoring editor) said in 2019 that it is used for clinical study protocols and IND applications; drafting them was not documented. Among general tools, Paperpal for Life Sciences says it turns research notes into scientific documents for medical and regulatory submissions; CSR, protocol, SAP or CTD drafting is not named. Silogram outlines CSRs, protocols, SAPs and CTD Module 2 summaries and drafts the sections that report the analysis (populations, methods and results) from the analysis code and its outputs.
11Silogram outlines AMCP Format 5.0 formulary dossiers, EU joint clinical assessment dossiers and MolDX technical assessment packages. Biolevate lists HTA dossier co-authoring and country adaptation, and Sorcero markets value evidence and dossiers, including ICER/AMCP-format evidence modules. None of the other products reviewed names AMCP, EU JCA or MolDX formats.
12Silogram learns spelling, voice, number formats, preferred terms and abbreviations from past documents, and its mechanical fixes arrive as tracked suggestions. Some AI writers document related customisation: Narrativa says its CSR automation adapts to each organisation's preferred writing style by training on a provided corpus; Asthra uses prior CSRs as an optional style reference and offers writing-rule tuning to house style on its Enterprise plan; Peer AI works with customers' templates and style guides; AINGENS offers model fine-tuning on its Enterprise plan; and Artos offers custom templates. Among planning suites, SciMax says its plain-language summary agent tailors drafts to the team's therapeutic areas and brand voice.
13Silogram's assistant runs on a model the customer approves from the vendors Silogram supports, with the customer's own keys, and outside agents from any vendor connect over MCP or a REST API with scoped tokens; neither can edit text directly, only suggest. Veeva Vault AI for Medical supports custom agents and MCP. Asthra can route through a customer's Bedrock or Vertex endpoint, AINGENS Enterprise offers any AI model, and Peer AI lists API and MCP integrations with customers' templates, style guides and data sources. Posit supports bring-your-own key, and Code Ocean offers an MCP server for agents.
14No official 21 CFR Part 11 certification exists (Microsoft says so explicitly); these are vendors' own statements. Silogram is designed to support Part 11. Veeva Vault documents e-signatures and audit trails, PubsHub and PubPro document audit trails, and SciMax states a GxP-compliant environment with audit logs for its plain-language agent; a Part 11 statement specific to a publications product was not found. AlphaLife and Sorcero state Part 11 compliance, and Yseop and Narrativa state GxP support. Domino, Posit and Code Ocean make Part 11 statements. Microsoft says its audited controls can support customers' own Part 11 work.
15Silogram forecasts most-likely and 90% dates from each document's actual progress. Planning suites track schedules with plans, dashboards and progress reports. Among AI writers, Peer AI's Command Center shows documents, deliverables and dependencies across a program and warns when upstream delays threaten downstream timelines, and Weave lists a Program Planner. Probability-based forecasts were not documented.
16Silogram links each document to the coverage, guideline, formulary or HTA decision it supports and prices a week of delay with the customer's own revenue estimate. It is the customer's arithmetic, not a promised result. Not documented by the products reviewed.

Products reviewed

Publication-planning suites (7). Anju Software Pubstrat MAX; Envision Pharma Group iEnvision Datavision; ICON PubsHub; Veeva Veeva Publications (Veeva's product sheet lists its status as "Early"); Mavens Scientific Publications Cloud; SciMax Global SCIMAX PUBS; BP Logix PubPro.
AI regulatory and medical writers (19). Yseop Copilot; Certara CoAuthor; Weave; Peer AI; Collate; Narrativa; Artos; Deep Intelligent Pharma; Faro AI; AlphaLife AuroraPrime; Asthra; Regfo; Sorcero; AINGENS MACg; Biolevate; Indegene NEXT Medical Writing Automation; Axtria Rapid CSR; Hexaware MedWriter.ai; IBM Regulate.AI.
Code-to-document platforms (10). Posit Team; Posit Connect Cloud; Quarto; Code Ocean; Domino; SAS Life Science Analytics Framework; Verisian; Hex; Stencila; Curvenote.
General AI and writing tools (4). Microsoft 365 Copilot; Overleaf; Paperpal; Posit AI.

Corrections. We compare from public materials only, and products change. If something here is wrong or out of date, email mmargolis27@gmail.com with documentation and we will review it within five business days and note the change here. Vendors are welcome to send documentation for anything marked "Not documented".

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Changes: 5 October 2026, first published.