Daniel Branco
The founder and operator of BioAlma

Built by someone who’s been in your shoes.

Daniel Branco, MD, PhD, MBA · neurologist, neuroscientist, venture builder

BioAlma and I are thinking partners for biotech founders. BioAlma is the intelligence platform and I’m its human operator. AI can now do much of the information work in a biotech. What it cannot supply is initiative, experience and aspiration. That’s where I come in.

Why it’s different

The big vendors sell you a platform. I sit on the other end of it.

I have sat in your seat: needing a sharp read on the competitive landscape, quickly, without a six-figure platform contract and a training program to learn it.

That is the real difference. The big intelligence vendors sell you software and leave you alone with it, with no one to call and no one to ask “can you cut this another way?” With BioAlma, I build your intelligence boards myself, and I am on the other end: to talk through what the data means, refine a view, or run a new analysis the moment your questions change.

“The big platforms give you software. I give you the analysis, and a real person to ask when you need it cut another way.”

Working with me

The information work, done for you. The judgment, done with you.

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I set up your instance

On BioAlma’s cloud, or on a server your company owns, secured and encrypted, with your own sign-in.

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I build the dashboards you need

Competitors, trials, investigators, key opinion leaders, regulatory precedent: shaped around the decisions in front of you.

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I turn your documents into a library

Your records indexed, searchable and cited back to the source page, mapped to what you are building toward, such as a regulatory submission.

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I keep it current

Agents track new publications, trial updates, competitor moves and the commitments you have made, so nobody has to remember.

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We think together every week

A standing meeting where the intelligence meets experience: what changed, what it means, what to do about it.

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I report in writing

A monthly written summary of the work done and the hours spent. No surprises.

Who I am

A physician who turns science into business decisions.

Science into decisions about money

I trained in neurology, neuroscience and business. At Artiva Biotherapeutics I was responsible for financial planning through the company’s IPO, and then for medical and competitive intelligence. Before that, I built and led ventures in medicine and clinical research in Brazil and the US.

Relationships with high stakes

My whole career has been built on demanding relationships: with physicians as a hospital’s chief medical officer, with investors and corporate clients as a consultant and an entrepreneur. Trust is what makes intelligence useful.

Along the way I have worked with Novartis, Roche, Ionis, Bain, the Economist Intelligence Unit, Pátria and the IFC, and with the hospitals and founders who taught me most of what I know.

How we start

From a first conversation to a weekly rhythm, in a few weeks.

Step 1

A conversation

What you are building, what decisions are coming, what information you are missing.

Step 2

A shared workspace

A plan, options and costs in one place, written for your team to review.

Step 3

Your instance

Installed where you choose, connected to your documents, with your own AI account if you prefer.

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The weekly rhythm

The dashboards and the library grow with the work; our meeting keeps them pointed at what matters.

Simple terms: an hourly rate with a monthly minimum that also covers the platform. Infrastructure and AI usage can sit in your own accounts, so you see every cost directly.

First engagement · rare disease

A small rare-disease biotech

BioAlma runs on a server the company owns, reads from its own document store and uses its own AI account. I set up the instance, the sign-in and the encrypted data area within days of signing; next, years of records become one cited library.

Client details shared only with permission.

What stays yours

Operated by me. Owned by you.

Trust built into the architecture, not promised in a slide.

Your data and your instance

If you choose your own server, it is in your company’s name. If we stop working together, you keep everything and can keep running it.

Your AI account

The in-app agent can run on your own AI provider account, under commercial terms that do not train on your data.

Least privilege

I get the access the work needs and nothing more. Your administrators control it.

Confidential by default

Your name, your data and your plans are never used to sell to anyone else.

Let’s see if we’re a fit.

Thirty minutes is enough to know whether working together makes sense for your company.