Pharma Guide Inc.

$400,000.00 CAD

≈ 5 Canadians' average pay for a year
Department
National Research Council Canada
Program
Industrial Research Assistance Program
Recipient country
Canada
Fiscal year
2026-2027
Agreement period
June 1, 2026 – March 29, 2027
Reference
nrc-cnrc:172-2026-2027-Q1-1044240

Published purpose

PharmaGuide is developing an end-to-end Al intake agent that ingests prescription-related documents from every channel pharmacies use today - fax, email, SMS, voicemail, and direct upload - and parses, validates, enters, and processes them through to transaction fulfillment. Using contextual Al techniques (patient and prescriber lookup, trend detection, and template memorization), the system is designed to replace manual data-entry work at high-volume pharmacies and enterprise chains with a single autonomous workflow. The project will develop and validate the agent through controlled experiments in sandbox environments, measuring channel coverage, parsing accuracy, end-to-end automation rate, and time-to-entry against current manual baselines.

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