IRB operations,distilled toclarity.
One workspace for investigators, administrators, and reviewers. Built-in knowledge of federal research regulations to predict review categories, catch compliance problems early, and draft determination letters — from intake to decision, without scattered tools and inboxes.
View ArchitectureEmail, PDFs, and spreadsheets—no single source of truth for status.
Admins lose hours to rewrites, document chases, and revision letters by hand.
Reviewers read guidelines differently— inconsistent outcomes for investigators.
Legacy IRB workflows were not built for today. Most teams still stitch together tools from another era. Arbiter replaces that patchwork with one governed workspace — with federal regulation built in, so compliance problems surface before they slow you down.
Three steps to
decision.
Every step is logged so teams can answer who did what, and when, without digging through inboxes.
Intake
Investigators submit through a guided portal. As documents arrive, the system reads the full protocol and predicts the review category — exempt, expedited, or full board — so administrators know what to expect before they open it.
Triage
Every submission is checked against federal regulations for missing consent elements, incomplete risk disclosures, and similar gaps. Admins see what needs attention right away, triage with summaries, and draft revision letters in minutes instead of hours.
Outcome
Structured evaluations lead to clear decisions. Draft determination letters cite the specific regulatory criteria behind each outcome, and renewal reminders go out automatically — no more chasing over email.
Functional
Architecture.
The system carries built-in knowledge of federal research regulations — it predicts review categories, catches compliance problems, and drafts language your team would otherwise write by hand. Every final decision stays with your board.
Built on Federal Regulation
The system knows the Common Rule, FDA human-subjects requirements (21 CFR 50/56), HIPAA, and your institutional policies. It references the same regulatory text your board does.
When a protocol arrives, it reads the submission and supporting documents, then predicts the review category — exempt, expedited, or full board — before an administrator opens it.
Compliance Checks Before Review
Every submission is checked for common problems before it reaches a reviewer — missing consent language, incomplete risk disclosures, vulnerable-population safeguards that fall short of regulatory requirements.
Each issue comes with an explanation and a reference to the relevant regulation, so investigators can fix problems before formal review begins.
Governance by Design
Strict role-based access controls and an immutable, append-only audit trail structured specifically for serious compliance review and institutional security requirements.
Unified Threads
Every proposal has its own conversation thread. Attachments, reminders, and discussion live alongside the submission — nothing gets lost between email, shared drives, and spreadsheets.
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