CASE STUDY: How Storke uses Valyu to cut clinical evaluation timelines in half
Storke Engineering Team - May 2026
About Storke
Storke helps medical device makers get innovative devices to market 3x faster. Their AI agent platform takes the regulatory grunt work (systematic literature reviews, state-of-the-art summaries, clinical evaluation reports) that consultants and medical writers normally do, and embeds it directly into the tools regulatory experts already use.
The European regulatory process can stretch into years because of the sheer volume of documentation required. Storke compresses that timeline so life-saving technologies don't sit on the shelf waiting on paperwork.
The Challenge
Every clinical evaluation rests on a PRISMA-compliant systematic literature review: structured searches across scientific databases, result screening, and an evidence trail that a regulatory expert can defend.
Manually, this research phase alone takes consultants and medical writers weeks. Per device. Every time the underlying state of the art shifts, the review has to be rerun.
Storke needed a retrieval layer that could give their AI agents direct access to peer-reviewed academic and regulatory literature, return results structured enough to support PRISMA-compliant search reports, and slot natively into their multi-agent stack.
The Solution: Valyu as the research layer
Storke integrated Valyu into the retrieval and research layers of their clinical evaluation pipeline. Their agents pull peer-reviewed papers, regulatory texts, and scientific database content through a single API call, with every retrieval logged.
That same API drives three artefacts inside Storke's product:
- PRISMA-compliant search reports: Structured, reproducible searches across academic and scientific databases, generating the systematic search documentation notified bodies expect.
- State-of-the-art summaries: Agents compile comprehensive summaries of the current state of the art for any given device category, drawing on academic and regulatory sources in real time.
- Clinical evaluation reports: Retrieved evidence feeds straight into the full report, so every claim is grounded in citable, traceable literature.
Valyu powers the retrieval and research layers in our clinical evaluation pipeline, giving our agents access to real academic and regulatory literature that feeds directly into PRISMA-compliant search reports, state-of-the-art summaries, and clinical evaluation reports.
- Ahmed Mehrez, CTO, Storke
What Valyu Got Right
A handful of details made Valyu a good fit for a regulated MedTech product.
Native agent tooling: MCP and AI SDK-compatible tools dropped into Storke's existing multi-agent architecture with effectively no setup needed. Agents call Valyu as a tool the same way they call anything else in the stack.
Real academic and regulatory source coverage: Peer-reviewed papers, clinical databases, and regulatory texts are directly retrievable, not paraphrased through a web summary. Citations trace back to the primary source, ready to drop into a clinical evaluation report.
Traceable, replayable retrievals: Every search response carries a transaction ID Storke can persist alongside the generated report. When a citation needs auditing months later, the original retrieval is replayable end to end.
One API, multiple artefacts: The same retrieval layer powers search reports, state-of-the-art summaries, and clinical evaluation reports. The engineering team builds against one integration, not three.
Valyu was incredibly straightforward to integrate. Their MCP and AI SDK-compatible tooling slotted cleanly into our existing multi-agent architecture. The platform itself is also super useful and easy to use, with effectively no setup needed.
- Ahmed Mehrez, CTO, Storke
Results & Impact
Since integrating Valyu, Storke's customers have seen measurable change in how clinical evaluation work gets done.
50%+ time savings on clinical evaluation - The research phase that used to take weeks now runs automatically through Storke's agents. Regulatory professionals spend their time on review and decision-making, not on searching and screening.
Traceable, defensible evidence - Every clinical evaluation report ships with citations traceable back to peer-reviewed academic and regulatory sources, giving regulatory teams an evidence base they can stand behind.
Faster routes to market - With the research bottleneck removed, devices move through the regulatory process faster, delivering on Storke's core promise: 3x faster to market.
Valyu delivers our users a super streamlined clinical research experience that is also seamlessly integrated into our platform. It allows them to free up more than half the time they spend on clinical evaluation, so that they can focus on more strategic work and take on more clients.
- Ahmed Mehrez, CTO, Storke
Why Valyu
Clinical evaluation sits at the intersection of peer-reviewed academic literature, regulatory documentation, and agentic AI workflows. Storke needed all three covered by a single retrieval layer, accessible natively to an autonomous agent.
Valyu provides that combination through one API, with MCP and AI SDK support out of the box. Storke plugged it in and immediately had production-grade research capabilities running across their entire clinical evaluation pipeline.
As Storke continues to expand the platform, Valyu remains the retrieval and research layer underneath every clinical evaluation report it produces.
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