About Harbor
Meet the agentic EDC
Harbor is electronic data capture software that helps medical device, biotech, and pharma companies set up studies and collect high-quality clinical data. While "agentic" has taken on a new meaning in the AI era, we define it simply: we turn the EDC from a passive database for data collection into an active worker in your clinical studies. Our software reads and interprets your study protocol, parses through messy source documents and enters data into CRFs for coordinators, and constantly looks through your data to identify any potential issues. As a result, we give lean clinical teams the capacity to run ambitious studies, while preserving the data quality and traceability regulated research demands.
What Harbor does
Your protocol shapes the study. Harbor gives your team flexible forms and AI-assisted workflows to put it into practice, with human review built into data capture.
Build from your protocol
Magic Build generates draft CRFs and source documents from your protocol PDF and CRF library. Your team reviews, refines, and tests the study build before going live.
Bring any source into your EDC
Magic Capture turns uploaded source records from paper, eSource, EHRs, and other systems into data ready for your EDC, with no custom configuration. Your team reviews and confirms the extracted values with the source evidence attached.
Review source alongside study data
Monitors can review source documents alongside EDC data remotely. Having both in one place helps teams investigate discrepancies as study data comes in.
Support your validation process
Audit trails, controlled access, and electronic signatures support traceable clinical workflows. Commercial plans include validation documentation to support your study setup and review.
Review study changes before launch
Study versions let your team preview how existing subject data maps into a revised design before promoting an amendment. Full user acceptance testing in Harbor gives the team a place to check the revised workflow.
What makes Harbor different
Any source to EDC, with no custom configuration
Bring records from paper, eSource, EHRs, or other source systems, and Harbor's AI maps the data to your study forms. Sites can use the source workflows they already have while your team reviews the extracted data in Harbor.
An agentic CRA assistant for your study
Harbor gives your clinical team an AI assistant for the day-to-day work of a clinical research associate. Delegate study work to the assistant within your EDC, with your team overseeing the results.
AI-generated reports and dashboards
Use AI to create custom reports and dashboards around the questions your study needs to answer. Give your team views of study data tailored to your protocol and the way you oversee the trial.
A study build generated from your protocol
Magic Build turns your protocol into a draft study build with CRFs and source documents for your team to review. UAT checklists help get your study live faster.
Truly remote and centralized monitoring
Magic Capture keeps original text and page references alongside each extracted value, so your team can do source data verification (SDV) in one platform, fully remotely.
Evaluating Medidata Rave, Veeva EDC, Viedoc, Medrio, or REDCap? Compare study setup, source review, and the work your team owns in each system.
Who uses Harbor
We focus on small and growing medical device, biotech, and pharma companies whose clinical teams need software that adapts to their studies.
- Medical device teams planning feasibility, pivotal, or post-market studies.
- Biotech and pharma teams bringing a new therapy into clinical development.
- Lean sponsor teams coordinating study data with research sites and external CROs.
The team behind Harbor
Harbor grew out of Albert's work on clinical trials at Biolinq, where he worked across clinical, regulatory, and product development from first-in-human studies through FDA authorization. He and Nathan founded Harbor to make the software clinical teams depend on easier to use, with automation built around the work of running a study.
Our founding team combines clinical and regulatory experience with engineering leadership. Albert is our CEO, and Nathan leads technology as CTO.
Albert Cai
Co-Founder & CEO
Albert worked on clinical, regulatory, and product development at Biolinq and was previously Head of Diabetes Technology at Close Concerns. He studied biomedical engineering at Michigan.
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Nathan Leung
Co-Founder & CTO
Nathan was the first employee at Jupiter (YC S19) and built products at Google, Ramp, and Caldera. He studied mathematics at UCLA and computer science at Michigan, and brings his experience building secure systems to Harbor.
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Start with your study
A demo is a chance to discuss your protocol requirements and see how Harbor fits your team's workflow. Study setup includes reviewing the generated forms and preparing the database for use; the scope of your study determines the timeline.
Support for your clinical team
Commercial plans include training for sites and clinical research associates, plus priority support through a Slack channel. Enterprise plans include a dedicated customer success manager; contact [email protected] to discuss onboarding responsibilities and support response commitments for your study.
Key facts
- Company Name
- Harbor
- Type
- Clinical trial software company
- Founded
- 2025
- Founders
- Albert Cai and Nathan Leung
- Backed by
- Headquarters
- San Diego, California
- Website
- runharbor.com
- Core Offering
- Agentic electronic data capture (EDC) software for clinical trials
- Contract Terms
- Contact us to discuss terms for your study or portfolio.
- Services
- Study setup support, validation documentation, and training for sites and clinical research associates.
- Communication
- Email support; priority Slack support included with commercial plans.
- Customers Served
- Medical device, biotech, and pharma companies, plus academic research teams.
- Projects Delivered
Frequently asked questions
What does agentic EDC mean?
An agentic EDC takes on work your clinical team would otherwise do by hand. Harbor carries out that work within your study, with your team overseeing the results and retaining control of the clinical data.
Can we use Harbor with our CRO?
Yes. Role- and organization-based access controls let sponsors collaborate with external CROs and research sites within the study.
How does Harbor support regulated studies?
Harbor provides audit trails, controlled access, electronic signatures, and validation documentation for commercial studies. Compliance also depends on your SOPs, validation process, and how the system is used.
How long does study setup take?
Simple studies can launch in days. Protocol complexity, review cycles, edit checks, integrations, and validation requirements determine the timeline for your study.
What kinds of source data can Harbor use?
Harbor can extract data from uploaded records originating in paper, eSource, EHRs, and other source systems, with no custom configuration. The AI maps values to your study forms for your team to review and confirm, so sites can keep their existing source workflows.
What does Harbor cost?
Commercial studies start at $2,000 per month, and every license includes Harbor's AI tools. Final pricing depends on study complexity, site count, modules, and portfolio scope.
Careers
Join our team in San Diego.
Our team is based in sunny San Diego, California. We're minutes from the ocean and work right next to some of the most innovative medtech and biotech companies in the world.
Open positions
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| Sales Development Representative | San Diego, CA / Remote | Apply |
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| Forward-Deployed Engineer | San Diego, CA | Apply |
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