About

Why Protocolis?

Too many academic investigators abandon a good research idea because the journey from idea to synopsis to protocol to ethics committee takes months. Protocolis shortens that slope and lets the investigator stay in control of the methodology.

Our approach

We do not replace the methodologist.

We do not process any patient data.

We stay in France, siloed by institution.

The team

Two people, many investigators around them.

Marie De Solère

Promotion coordinator, DRCI, GHICL

Clinical research coordinator at GHICL (Lille), specialised in epidemiology and public health. She supports investigators daily from first synopsis to multicentre trials.

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The developer

CTO

Software engineer with 20 years of experience, SaaS platform specialist. Architect of the Protocolis technical platform.

The mission

Protocolis was born from this observation, in the corridors of a hospital in Lille.

Marie De Solère, the founder of Protocolis, is promotion coordinator at the Clinical Research and Innovation Department (DRCI) of the Groupement des Hôpitaux de l'Institut Catholique de Lille (GHICL). Every day, she supports investigators in building their research projects — from residents writing their first thesis protocol to hospital practitioners launching multicentre trials, as well as midwives, physiotherapists and occupational therapists conducting paramedical research.

Investigators arrive with an idea, sometimes a very vague one. My job is to help them structure it. But we spend weeks doing what could be done in a few hours, if only we had the right tools.

Marie De Solère, founder of Protocolis, clinical research coordinator

Specialised in epidemiology and public health, Marie combines an intimate knowledge of the hospital environment with solid regulatory expertise (ICH-GCP, ANSM, CPP, CNIL). It is this dual perspective — scientific rigour and the day-to-day reality of a clinical research office — that shaped Protocolis.

The tool

Protocolis is an AI ally that guides researchers from idea to structured synopsis. Not a form to fill in, but a conversation: your ally asks the right questions, searches the literature on PubMed and ClinicalTrials.gov, deduces the appropriate methodology, and generates a document ready to share with the clinical research office.

The investigator stays in control of every decision. The tool speeds up and structures the work — it replaces neither the methodologist, nor the biostatistician, nor the institutional validation processes.

Who is it for?

  • Hospital investigators — residents, clinic heads, senior consultants — who want to structure their project quickly
  • Allied health professionals — midwives, physiotherapists, occupational therapists, nurses — who conduct clinical research
  • Students — PhD and Master's students — writing their first synopsis
  • Clinical research teams who support researchers and want to receive better-prepared submissions

Timeline

  1. 2025

    Initial idea

    Identifying the lack of suitable tools in academic DRCI.

  2. Q1 2026

    First conversational prototype

    Tested with investigators and methodologists.

  3. Q2 2026

    Pilot phase

    First real users, field iterations.

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