VERDICT

The problem

Research ethics committees juggle submissions, reviewer opinions, meetings, queries, letters and fees across email and spreadsheets. Working on the data and regulatory side of clinical trials, I saw how hard it is for applicants, reviewers and secretariats to know where a study stands.

What I built

• Applicants register, add institution and site details, submit study packages, see fee notices when billing is on, and download the signed approval letter once it is issued.
• Reviewers submit opinions (Satisfactory, Requires clarification, Not satisfactory) with comment rules from a catalog. Each opinion stays hidden from other reviewers until they submit their own, and reviews lock once a decision or letter is issued.
• The secretariat works from a query-letter workspace showing "X of Y responded", alongside package documents and applicant management.
• Meetings, messages, notifications, invoices, a metrics dashboard, resources and help, plus password reset and email verification.
• Committee name, letterhead and reference prefixes are configurable, so the platform works for any institution. Each committee runs on its own deployment and database.

The marketing site

I also built verdictethics.com, the product's marketing site, with Astro and Tailwind: product, security and pricing pages, a demo-request form with spam protection, and a server-side www-to-apex redirect.

Outcome

VERDICT is in use by the VIBRI Ethics and Scientific Review Committee.

Screenshots

Public pages only: the marketing site and a committee sign-in screen. No applicant, protocol or production data is shown.

verdictethics.com

verdictethics.com/product

verdictethics.com/security

committee sign-in