Incoming material disposition
Compare each certificate of analysis with the active specification and prepare the disposition for qualified review.
QMS software, reimagined
Short answer
Does Ovada replace your QMS?
No. Your QMS stays the system of record for documents, quality events, and approvals. Ovada is an AI quality agent that works across it: it gathers evidence, applies your approved procedures, follows up for missing inputs, and prepares review-ready records your team approves.
System of record
Side by side
Whether your team calls it QMS software, quality control software, or an eQMS, the job is the same: keep regulated records controlled. Ovada adds the labor that fills them.
| The job | Traditional QMS software | With Ovada |
|---|---|---|
| Procedures | Stores and routes controlled documents | Finds the procedure and specification that apply to each task |
| Records | Holds the record once someone fills it in | Retrieves and compares the records, then drafts the entry, cited to source |
| Data checks | Validates that form fields are complete | Flags missing, conflicting, or out-of-spec data against the specification |
| Missing inputs | Shows the task as overdue | Follows up with the owner until the input arrives |
| Decisions | Routes the form for signature | Routes judgment calls to qualified people, with the evidence attached |
| Where the work happens | Inside the QMS application | In the tools your team already uses, and your QMS |
Your quality system already spans a QMS, controlled documents, specifications, email, and shared drives. The QMS stores the final record, but the work behind it happens everywhere else. Ovada is an AI quality agent, not another app to manage: it works in between, through the tools your team already uses.
Your people
Ovada
Systems of record
Ovada does not replace your QMS. It expands how much quality work your team gets done through it.
An AI teammate and a chatbot added to a form can sound alike in a demo. These questions separate them. For more, read why an AI quality agent does not replace your QMS, or, if you are weighing Veeva, our comparison with Veeva Falcon and Vault AI.
With Ovada, yes. It works across your QMS and prepares approved outputs for it.
Every finding links to the records, procedures, and specifications behind it.
Qualified people. Ovada prepares the work and routes every judgment call to the person authorized to make it.
Ovada supports GAMP 5 validation, with Part 11 signatures and an append-only audit trail.
No. Ovada works through the tools your team already uses and brings people in when a decision or signature is needed.
Compare each certificate of analysis with the active specification and prepare the disposition for qualified review.
Gather evidence, support the investigation, and draft corrective and preventive actions for sign-off.
Reconstruct the event, draft the deviation record, and recommend whether CAPA should be considered.
Track supplier records and expirations, request updated documents, and close the loop.
Watch approved sources for changes, contradictions, expiring records, and training gaps.
These are five of Ovada’s 62 skills. Every one follows the same model: your approved procedures, cited evidence, and a qualified person at every decision.
See all 62 skillsQMS software, or quality management system software, gives regulated companies a controlled place to manage documents, quality events, CAPAs, approvals, and records. Ovada adds an AI quality agent that performs the evidence-heavy work behind those records across your existing systems.
No. Your QMS remains the system of record. Ovada works across your connected and authorized systems to perform quality work and prepare approved outputs for the right destination.
No. An eQMS, or electronic quality management system, is the system of record for documents, quality events, and approvals. Ovada works across your eQMS and other systems to do the evidence-heavy work behind those records.
AI quality management uses AI to perform parts of quality work, such as gathering evidence, checking records against specifications, and drafting documentation. Ovada is an AI teammate built for that work in FDA-regulated operations, and qualified people keep every regulated decision.
Ovada provides capabilities buyers look for in QMS software through a different operating model. Instead of becoming another standalone destination, it acts as an AI quality agent across the quality systems you already use.
No. Ovada performs the work leading up to the decision. Qualified people keep final judgment, review, authorization, and accountability.
Every finding links to the records, procedures, specifications, and evidence used to reach it, and the review and signature history is preserved with the approved record.
Bring one repetitive, evidence-heavy workflow and watch Ovada do the work between your systems.