What Aretetic Solutions does

Aretetic Solutions is a private, founder-controlled product company headquartered in Sacramento, California, that builds digital infrastructure for community-driven health research and participatory data governance. The company serves healthcare and research organizations, patient advocacy groups, and large-scale enterprise and government health programs, with named customers including Biogen, IQVIA, Amgen, and a strategic partnership with Genetic Alliance. Aretetic also retains professional services arms in web development and UX design that historically supported mission-driven organizations.

The product portfolio centers on two offerings: Community-Driven Innovation (CDI), a proprietary methodology for participatory research structured into four integrated modules covering adaptive IRB governance, community data layering, insight and activation, and trust and compliance, available in subscription tiers from $5,000 (Starter) to $35,000+ (Enterprise / RaaS); and DigitalCabinet, a HIPAA and GDPR-compliant participant portal with isolated data environments, branded enrollment, study management, and multilingual support in English, French, and Spanish, for which Aretetic holds an exclusive US license from spun-off partner Ethlen. Two additional products are in earlier stages: Aisling, an AI agent for conversational research interviews now in beta and trained on nearly five years of real-world participant interviews; and SoChoice, a quadratic voting tool for collaborative resource allocation in development. The technology stack is modern web-centric, including Next.js, React, Node.js, TypeScript, PostgreSQL, MongoDB, Contentful, AWS, and Vercel, with HIPAA and GDPR alignment built into the platform architecture rather than added on.

Aretetic monetizes through recurring CDI subscriptions, DigitalCabinet platform licensing and configuration services, and project-based web development and UX engagements. Distribution combines direct enterprise sales supported by Calendly-driven consultation and demo booking with a partnership channel through Ethlen for EU market coverage and Genetic Alliance for rare disease community access. The company is 1-10 employees, has not raised institutional capital, and discloses no revenue, operating since 2017 with formal CDI and DigitalCabinet productization occurring in 2021 and 2024 respectively.

Name

Aretetic Solutions

Legal name

Aretetic Solutions, LLC

Website

https://aretetic.com

Company type

Private

Founded year

2017

Operating status

Operating

Headcount range

1–10 employees

Short description

Aretetic Solutions builds HIPAA and GDPR-compliant digital infrastructure for community-driven health research, offering its proprietary CDI methodology, the DigitalCabinet participant portal (US-licensed from Ethlen), and emerging AI and governance tools to pharmaceutical, research, and rare disease advocacy organizations.

Ownership category

akta.pro rank

Headquarters

HQ city

San Diego

HQ country

United States

HQ region

North America

Offices2 records

Markets served

GTM type

B2B

Offering type

Software

Cost components

Personnel, Technology or R&D, Operations, Marketing or Sales, Infrastructure

Revenue model

1. CDI Subscription Tiers: Three-tier subscription model for Community-Driven Innovation methodology access. CDI Starter at $5,000, CDI Research at $10,000-$20,000, and CDI Enterprise at $35,000+. Includes adaptive IRB protocols, participant registry, consent management, and analytics capabilities.
2. DigitalCabinet Licensing: Fully managed participant portal platform licensed from Ethlen with exclusive US rights. Revenue from platform deployment, configuration, and ongoing support for research institutions, biobanks, and healthcare organizations.
3. Web Development Services: Full-stack development services for mission-driven organizations including custom web applications, secure data platforms, CMS integrations, API design, and cloud infrastructure. Billed as project-based engagements.
4. UX Design Services: End-to-end UX services including research, information architecture, interaction design, usability testing, accessibility auditing, and consent/privacy UX design.

Pricing tiers

Go-to-market motion3 records

Distribution channels3 records

Marketing channels4 records

Core offering

Aretetic Solutions provides a proprietary Community-Driven Innovation (CDI) methodology and the DigitalCabinet participant portal platform for healthcare research, biobanking, and patient advocacy organizations. DigitalCabinet is a HIPAA/GDPR-compliant participant registry system offering consent management, survey collection, file vaults, and isolated data environments. CDI is sold as a three-tier subscription (Starter, Research, Enterprise) covering adaptive IRB protocols, longitudinal participant tracking, and analytics, supplemented by professional UX design and web development services.

Product overview

Aretetic Solutions is a product company (not a consulting firm) offering a suite of digital tools for health research, community engagement, and ethical data governance. The portfolio centers on two core products: DigitalCabinet — a fully managed, HIPAA and GDPR-compliant participant portal for health data — and Community-Driven Innovation (CDI) — a proprietary methodology and modular system for participatory research. These are complemented by two emerging products: SoChoice (a quadratic voting tool in development) and Aisling (an AI agent for conversational research interviews in beta). Aretetic Publishing extends the brand into academic/philosophical publishing. Aretetic holds the exclusive US license for DigitalCabinet, which is built by partner company Ethlen. Services include UX design and web development, though these are not standalone product offerings.

Differentiator

Problem solved

Functional benefit

Brands

• DigitalCabinet: A privacy-first, GDPR-compliant registry and consent platform for health data. Built by Ethlen; exclusively licensed to Aretetic in the US. Provides private participant portals for research institutions, biobanks, hospital networks, and disease advocacy organizations.
• Community-Driven Innovation (CDI)
• SoChoice
• Aisling
• Aretetic Publishing

Products and services

• DigitalCabinet A fully managed, HIPAA- and GDPR-compliant participant portal for research institutions, biobanks, hospital networks, and disease advocacy organizations. Provides private data infrastructure with physically isolated storage, branded enrollment experiences, study management, survey collection, file vaults, and optional payment gating. Built by Ethlen; Aretetic holds exclusive US license.
• Community-Driven Innovation (CDI) A proprietary methodology and modular system for participatory research that allows organizations to continuously collect, govern, and act on community-driven data with built-in compliance, consent, and adaptability. Includes four integrated modules: Adaptive Governance Engine, Community Data Layer, Insight + Activation Layer, and Trust + Compliance Layer. Available in three tiers: CDI Starter ($5,000), CDI Research ($10,000-$20,000), and CDI Enterprise ($35,000+).
• Web Development Services Full-stack web development services for mission-driven organizations including custom web applications, secure data platforms, CMS and content integrations, RESTful and event-driven API design, responsive front-ends, and cloud infrastructure deployment on AWS and Vercel. Built using modern frameworks including Next.js, React, Node.js, and TypeScript.
• UX Design Services End-to-end UX design services including UX research and discovery, information architecture, interaction design and prototyping, usability testing and validation, accessibility auditing, and specialized consent and privacy UX design. Designed for healthcare registries, research dashboards, and governance tools.

Named customers4 records

Segments3 records

Ideal customer profiles3 records

Technology focussed Yes

API detail

Has API

No

API docs

API detail

Core technology

AI maturity

App detail

AI capability4 records

Feature4 records

Partnerships

Two partnerships are on record, tiered core.

• EthlencoreOEM/ Whitelabel/ Licensing Partner · 1 January 2024Ethlen built DigitalCabinet originally as internal tooling at Aretetic. When Ethlen spun off to focus on sovereign data infrastructure and EU compliance, Aretetic retained exclusive US license to deploy and support DigitalCabinet. Ethlen owns DigitalCabinet globally; Aretetic combines Ethlen's infrastructure with US market expertise and research network.
• Genetic AlliancecoreStrategic or Co-development PartnerStrategic partnership advancing rare disease registries and community-driven research infrastructure. Genetic Alliance is a major network in the rare disease community, providing access to patient advocacy organizations and research communities.

Scale indicators4 records

Recent moves7 records

Expansion highlights6 records

Broad incumbents

• Medidata (Dassault Systèmes): Medidata provides a comprehensive clinical trial technology platform (EDC, eConsent, RWE, trial management) used across biopharma. Overlaps with Aretetic's clinical research infrastructure for similar enterprise pharma customers but at vastly larger scale and breadth.
• Veeva Systems: Veeva is a broad cloud platform for life sciences covering clinical, regulatory, quality, and commercial operations. Serves the same biopharma buyers Aretetic targets (Biogen, Amgen) with a much larger portfolio spanning trial management and quality.
• Advarra: Advarra provides IRB review and research compliance technology for clinical trials and health research. Overlaps with Aretetic's adaptive IRB governance angle within the same healthcare research buyer market.
• WCG: WCG provides IRB, research compliance, and clinical research enabling services across trial sponsors. Comparable in serving the regulatory and compliance layer of clinical research alongside Aretetic's adaptive governance approach.
• IQVIA: IQVIA is the world's largest CRO and a major real-world evidence technology provider. It is both an Aretetic customer and a broader competitor in clinical research services and patient-centered data collection at global scale.
• Datavant: Datavant offers privacy-preserving health data connectivity and tokenization for research and life sciences. Comparable in delivering regulatory-grade (HIPAA/GDPR) data infrastructure that de-identifies and connects participant records for biopharma research, though at a much larger scale.

Direct peers

• Castor EDC: Castor provides a HIPAA- and GDPR-compliant clinical research data capture platform for hospitals, sponsors, and academic researchers. Directly comparable to DigitalCabinet and the CDI methodology stack, serving the same customer base with similar eCRF/EDC functionality for clinical studies.
• OpenClinica: OpenClinica offers electronic data capture and clinical trial management for research institutions. Overlaps with Aretetic's clinical research data infrastructure positioning, though historically focused on clinical trials rather than community-led research.
• AllStripes (Selah): AllStripes (rebranded to Selah) is a rare disease patient data platform that builds structured evidence from consented patient records. Closely mirrors Aretetic's approach of standing up registries and structuring participant data for rare disease research.

Emerging players

• Within3: Within3 runs an insights and engagement platform for life sciences that includes physician and patient community interaction. Partially overlaps with Aretetic's community-driven research infrastructure serving biopharma R&D teams.

Market position

Strengths5 records

Weaknesses5 records

Competitive moat6 records

Key risks5 records

Key highlights6 records

Customer concentration

• LinkedInlinkedin.com/company/aretetic-solutions-llc

Compliance2 records

Revenue estimate

Valuation estimate

Number of profiles

Profiles2 records

Funding overview

Funding rounds

Investors

Funding detail is available on the Subscription and Enterprise plan.Contact sales →

M&A

Investments

M&A and investment is available on the Subscription and Enterprise plan.Contact sales →

Frequently asked questions about Aretetic Solutions