- Before
- Copies commitments from each new letter into a tracker by hand and finds out about a slip when the owner does.
- Now
- Reads each letter with every item already found, matched and highlighted; confirms, edits or rejects, and signs once.
One FDA letter, from the mailbox to the annual report
On Oct 6 the FDA’s supplement approval for Veltrimab in Crohn’s disease (BLA 761412/S-008) lands in the regulatory mailbox. Here is what happens next, screen by screen, in the working solution.
- 01Morning, Oct 7
Every date we owe, on one horizon
Omar Haddad · Regulatory leadOmar opens the Horizon: 29 open commitments to 8 health authorities across 4 products, every milestone laid out by product for the next 12 months. The nearest clocks sit across the top — the 180-day progress report on TLX-301 is due in 7 days, the HMW species limits re-evaluation in 24. Six things wait for him.
Needs you: “Sign 3 items from the Veltrimab S-008 letter — FDA supplement approval · 1 is a change to CMT-101.”
- 02One click
The agents read the letter, page by page
Correspondence Reader · Commitment ExtractorOmar opens the new FDA letter. The Correspondence Reader records it as a supplement approval letter for Veltrimab, FDA, 3 pages. The Commitment Extractor finds 3 items with page anchors and sets a standing reminder aside; the Change & Duplicate Checker sees that one of them changes CMT-101; the Owner Router proposes owners. Each passage is highlighted in the letter as it is found.
“Nothing enters the register until you sign.”
- 037.4 seconds later
A new requirement, in the FDA’s own words
Commitment ExtractorThe first item is PMR 4512-7, a deferred paediatric study under PREA: “Conduct a study to evaluate the pharmacokinetics, safety, and efficacy of Veltrimab in pediatric patients 6 to 17 years of age with moderately to severely active Crohn’s disease.” Page 2, 97 % confidence, with its three dates — final protocol 03/2027, study completion 06/2030, final report 12/2030 — and Dr. Maya Chen proposed as the functional owner.
Agent limit: wording is copied exactly — never paraphrased — and every item carries its page.
- 04Same letter
A change to a requirement we already hold
Change & Duplicate CheckerThe letter says PMR 4512-1 “is revised as follows”. The checker matches it to CMT-101, the pregnancy exposure registry, and shows the difference: “women with ulcerative colitis” becomes “women with ulcerative colitis or Crohn’s disease”. The schedule is unchanged — final report 06/2032. Omar can apply it to CMT-101, add it as a new record, or reject it. The adverse experience reporting reminder (21 CFR 600.80 / 600.81) is marked as not a commitment, so nothing is added.
- 054 of 4 decided
He decides each item, then signs
Omar Haddad · Regulatory leadOmar confirms the paediatric study and the ADA assay commitment, applies the revised wording to CMT-101 and agrees the reminder adds nothing. He signs with his password and the meaning of the signature — “I approve these register entries”. Because one item changes an existing commitment, it also goes to Dana Okafor in compliance for countersignature; the original wording stays in the record history.
- 06Signed
In the register, owners told, alerts set
Owner RouterCMT-113, CMT-101 and CMT-114 are updated in the register. Dr. Maya Chen, Claire Dubois and Lena Ortiz are notified as owners, and alerts are scheduled at 90, 60, 30 and 7 days before each milestone. Every agent step and every decision is written to the audit trail.
“Signed and in the register. CMT-113 · CMT-101 · CMT-114 — owners notified, alerts scheduled at 90, 60, 30 and 7 days.”
- 07Drafted
The Veltrimab annual status table, drafted and cited
Status ReporterBLA 761412 reaches its approval anniversary on Oct 21, so the status report is due Dec 20 under 21 CFR 601.70. The Status Reporter writes one row for each of the 8 requirements and commitments — original and current schedule, the agency’s status category and a short explanation with its evidence. The two new items from S-008 go in as Pending. One does not fit: PMC 4512-6 is Delayed, with no revised date yet.
Agent limit: Submitted is never written as fulfilled; a delayed item always carries a reason and a revised date.
- 08On the record
A date that cannot be met, raised early
Deadline MonitorPMC 4512-6 asks for the HMW species limits to be re-evaluated after 30 commercial lots, with the CBE-30 final report due Oct 31. Only 21 lots have been made; the 30th is planned for Feb 2027. On Oct 5 at 06:00 the Deadline Monitor compared Lena Ortiz’s internal targets with plan, saw three of them missed, and raised the slip on the record more than three weeks before the agency date.
“The Oct 31 date cannot be met — a revised date and an explanation are needed in the annual report.”
- 09Request a new date
The reason, drafted in the agency’s terms
Omar Haddad · Regulatory leadOmar asks for a new date of May 31, 2027 and presses “Draft it for me”. The Deadline Monitor reads the progress and the cause of the slip; the Status Reporter writes the reason: demand for the 200 mg/mL presentation was lower than forecast, the 30th lot is scheduled for February 2027, and the revised final report submission is 05/2027. He signs and applies it, and it goes to Dana Okafor for countersignature.
“Reported as Delayed with this explanation in the next annual status report; the agency is also told by letter now.”
- 10Any day
How we are keeping up, across every agency
Omar Haddad · Regulatory leadThe dashboard shows what is owed and where the risk is: 31 open commitments after the S-008 letter, 93 % of milestones met on time this year (37 of 40), 12 due in the next 90 days with 3 at risk, and 31 letters read by the agents with 46 items found, each one signed.