Whiz

Whiz (WhizAI, legally Whizdotai, Inc.) develops a conversational analytics platform that lets business users query enterprise data in natural language by voice or text on web and mobile. The platform is described as purpose-built for life sciences, pre-trained on life sciences data sources including 867 data, IQVIA data, CTMS and APLD, and on industry business terminology such as NRx, TRx, PBMs, plans and therapeutic areas, so that it can answer complex questions across billions of records in seconds. Responses are returned in whichever format best fits the request, including text, tables, graphs and reports, and users can ask follow-on questions because the system retains conversational context, switch data sources, reset context, and pin visualizations to build ad-hoc dashboards.

The company's domain now presents IQVIA's Analytics, Insights & Reporting (AIR) offering and refers to "WhizAI, an IQVIA business." In that context, WhizAI is positioned as GenAI-powered conversational analytics built on proprietary intent-ready natural language processing and a domain-tuned large language model, sitting alongside IQVIA's persona-based business intelligence reporting, IQ20/20 reporting solutions (including the Flexview tool), health equity insights reporting, and strategic advisory services for life sciences, MedTech and healthcare organizations. The wider AIR offering is described as BI-platform agnostic, working with IQ20/20, Tableau, Power BI, Qlik and ThoughtSpot, and includes AI/ML, natural language processing, tokenized de-identification and privacy tooling.

Founding story

Co-founder and CEO Rohit Vashisht, an engineer by training who began his software career in 2000 building business intelligence products, started the company in 2017 with a co-founder he had met roughly twenty years earlier while both worked on an early business intelligence product. Vashisht had previously founded a company in India in 1999, a fintech startup in 2007-2008, and the influencer marketing marketplace Sverve, which was acquired by Bloglovin and rebranded as Activate.

Business model

Enterprise software sold to life sciences organizations, with a browser-based application and a companion mobile client; in production, customers receive customized access to their own enterprise data sets rather than the publicly available sample data. Under IQVIA, the capability is offered as part of a broader portfolio spanning modular products, end-to-end implementations and consulting services.

Traction

Reported outcomes at enterprise pharmaceutical implementations include full adoption among business users and reductions in IT call volume and operational overhead within the first months of deployment. The Android mobile client, published by Whiz.ai Inc, has recorded more than 500 downloads and was last updated in September 2024.