Product Comparison

Atlas vs Cortellis

Cortellis is built for deep, specialized intelligence across the drug lifecycle. Atlas is built to turn a research question into a structured, publication-ready report by combining scientific literature, patents, clinical trials, and company evidence into one decision-ready deliverable.

A specialized intelligence ecosystem and a research workflow

Atlas and Cortellis both support evidence-based R&D decisions.

So what's the difference?

Atlas

Atlas is a research intelligence platform built around the process of producing a finished report. Teams define a question, approve the scope and research plan, review the draft, and receive a structured deliverable that combines public evidence with their own internal knowledge.

Cortellis

Cortellis is a broad portfolio of life sciences intelligence products built around specialized datasets, analytics, and workflows for areas such as drug discovery, clinical trials, competitive pipelines, licensing deals, regulatory intelligence, CMC, product intelligence, and translational safety.

At a glance

 
Atlas
Clarivate Cortellis
Primary focus
Structured research intelligence
Specialized life sciences intelligence
Best suited for
R&D, innovation, technology scouting, competitive intelligence, and academic research
Pharmaceutical, biotechnology, clinical, regulatory, portfolio, and business development teams
Core experience
Brief-to-report research workflow
Portfolio of specialized intelligence products
Main outputs
Publication-ready research reports
Data, analytics, profiles, forecasts, alerts, and intelligence
Research areas
Technologies, companies, scientific literature, and competitive positioning
Drugs, trials, deals, regulations, discovery, safety, CMC, and product intelligence
Human approval checkpoints
Built into every report
Varies by product and organizational workflow
Internal knowledge integration
Internal and public evidence cited together
Enterprise data and platform integrations
Entry point
Free self-service plan
Product-specific commercial access

Different approaches to R&D intelligence

Atlas
Start with the research question.

Atlas is organized around a structured research pipeline. Teams submit a brief, approve the scope and outline, allow specialist agents to conduct research, review the resulting draft, and export a finished report.

The emphasis is on methodology, traceability, collaboration, and the quality of the final deliverable.

Clarivate Cortellis
Start with the intelligence domain.

Cortellis is organized as a portfolio of life sciences intelligence solutions. Teams select the product aligned with their workflow, such as competitive intelligence, deals, clinical trials, drug discovery, regulatory intelligence, CMC, product intelligence, or translational safety.

The emphasis is on specialized life sciences data, domain coverage, and decision support across the drug lifecycle.

Which platform fits your work?

Choose Atlas if you need to
  • Build a technology landscape
  • Conduct a structured literature review
  • Map companies and potential partners
  • Compare competitors or strategic positions
  • Evaluate an emerging scientific field
  • Produce an executive-ready research report
  • Combine internal documents with public evidence
  • Establish a repeatable research methodology
  • Review and revise findings before delivery
  • Rerun research to track changes over time
Choose Cortellis if you need to
  • Analyze pharmaceutical pipelines
  • Research drug discovery and preclinical assets
  • Evaluate clinical trial activity
  • Investigate licensing and partnership deals
  • Track global regulatory requirements
  • Access CMC intelligence
  • Assess product and supply-chain intelligence
  • Analyze translational safety signals
  • Support asset valuation and portfolio strategy
  • Work from specialized life sciences datasets

Compare the research experience

Atlas: from brief to finished report.

1
Brief
Write your research question, select report type, parameters, and any reference attachments
2
Scope
Review & approve the AI-parsed scope before research begins
3
Outline
Approve or revise the chapter structure & research plan
4
Research
Specialist agents run targeted searches across multiple dimensions; a Review Agent verifies coverage and re-runs when gaps are found
5
Draft
Highlight text, add comments, request revisions. Atlas previews its plan and shows a diff of every change
6
Deliver
Export to PDF or Word — formatted and ready to share
Green checkmarks indicate human review checkpoints — you approve before the pipeline advances.

Cortellis: specialized intelligence across the drug lifecycle.

Discover

Drug discovery, biological knowledge, target and mechanism intelligence.

Develop

Clinical trial planning, translational safety, and CMC intelligence.

Evaluate

Competitive pipelines, asset value, market opportunity, and portfolio strategy.

Partner

Deals intelligence, licensing analysis, and business development.

Navigate

Regulatory intelligence and compliance across global markets.

Commercialize

Product intelligence, supply-chain visibility, and market planning.

What each platform produces

Atlas outputs
  • Technology landscape reports
  • Literature reviews
  • Company intelligence reports
  • Competitive position analyses
  • Structured evidence synthesis
  • Executive summaries
  • Inline citations and references
  • PDF and Word exports
  • Versioned report history
  • Recurring research updates
Cortellis outputs
  • Drug and pipeline intelligence
  • Clinical trial intelligence
  • Deals and partnership data
  • Regulatory intelligence
  • Discovery and preclinical intelligence
  • CMC intelligence
  • Product intelligence
  • Translational safety insights
  • Forecasting and portfolio inputs
  • Domain-specific alerts and analytics

Where Atlas stands apart

The deliverable is the report

Atlas is designed to take a team from an initial brief to a complete, shareable research document rather than leaving users to assemble outputs from multiple searches and intelligence views.

Human review is part of the process

Scope, outline, and draft approvals are built into the workflow.

Research coverage is actively reviewed

A Review Agent checks whether the research adequately covers the approved scope and launches an additional targeted pass when gaps are found.

Broader research flexibility

Atlas can support life sciences questions, but it is not limited to pharmaceutical intelligence. Teams can also investigate materials, energy, semiconductors, advanced manufacturing, emerging technologies, and other research areas.

Internal knowledge becomes part of the evidence base

Atlas can cite proprietary organizational documents alongside external sources within the same report.

A consistent methodology across report types

Literature reviews, technology landscapes, company intelligence, and competitive analyses all follow the same structured workflow.

Where Cortellis stands apart

Specialized life sciences depth

Cortellis is designed specifically for pharmaceutical, biotechnology, clinical, regulatory, and commercialization workflows.

Intelligence across the drug lifecycle

Its portfolio spans discovery through clinical development, regulatory approval, partnerships, manufacturing, and commercialization.

Domain-specific datasets

Cortellis provides structured information focused on areas such as drug pipelines, clinical trials, licensing deals, regulatory requirements, safety, and product intelligence.

Multiple purpose-built solutions

Organizations can select products based on the precise intelligence function they need rather than using one generalized research workflow.

Atlas and Cortellis may be complementary

Not every organization needs to replace one with the other. A life sciences organization could use Cortellis as a specialized intelligence source while using Atlas to structure broader research questions, combine Cortellis findings with other public and internal evidence, and produce a finished report for stakeholders.

Cortellis intelligence
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Scientific literature
+
Internal research documents
+
Company and market evidence
Atlas research report

For teams already invested in specialized databases, Atlas can serve as the research and reporting layer that turns information from multiple sources into a coherent, reviewable deliverable.

Use-case comparison

Research need
Better fit
Why
Review a therapeutic pipeline
Cortellis
Specialized drug and competitive pipeline intelligence
Analyze global clinical trials
Cortellis
Purpose-built clinical trial data and intelligence
Monitor regulatory changes
Cortellis
Dedicated global regulatory intelligence
Benchmark licensing deals
Cortellis
Specialized deals intelligence and analytics
Produce a structured literature review
Atlas
Built around evidence synthesis and report delivery
Map an emerging technology landscape
Atlas
Combines scientific, company, and strategic evidence
Prepare a cross-functional executive report
Atlas
Produces a complete, shareable research deliverable
Blend internal documents with external research
Atlas
Mixed evidence and citations within one workflow
Investigate an area outside life sciences
Atlas
Broader cross-industry research scope
Support a complex life sciences decision
Potentially both
Specialized intelligence plus structured synthesis

Pricing and adoption

Atlas
  • Free Researcher plan
  • Two reports per month
  • No credit card required
  • Professional plan for greater volume and an internal knowledge repository
  • Enterprise plan for teams, security, and custom report volume
Clarivate Cortellis
  • Commercial product portfolio
  • Access depends on the specific Cortellis solution selected
  • Designed primarily for organizational and enterprise intelligence workflows
  • Prospective users typically engage with Clarivate to identify the appropriate products

Frequently asked questions

Is Atlas a replacement for Clarivate Cortellis?

Not in every use case. Cortellis is better aligned with teams that need specialized pharmaceutical, clinical, regulatory, deals, safety, or product intelligence. Atlas is better aligned with teams that need to turn a complex question into a structured, publication-ready research report.

Can Atlas support life sciences research?

Yes. Atlas can produce literature reviews, technology landscapes, company intelligence reports, and competitive analyses for life sciences and biotechnology topics.

Does Atlas include the same proprietary data as Cortellis?

Atlas conducts structured research across available public and proprietary sources and can incorporate a customer's internal documents. Cortellis provides specialized life sciences intelligence products and curated datasets; Atlas should not be positioned as containing the same proprietary datasets.

Can a team use Atlas and Cortellis together?

Yes. A team may use Cortellis for specialized life sciences intelligence and Atlas to synthesize evidence from multiple sources into a structured report.

Which is easier to start with?

Atlas offers a self-service free plan for teams that want to begin producing reports immediately. Cortellis adoption depends on the products, data, and enterprise workflows an organization requires.

Need a finished research report, not another intelligence dashboard?

Atlas turns complex R&D questions into structured, cited, publication-ready reports with human review built into the process.