Rigorous Literature Reviews Start Here. The Platform Built by Experts, for Experts

Built on over a decade of literature review expertise and experience delivering more than 1,500 reviews, Costello Medical have developed Clarata, an industry-leading literature review platform. Clarata brings review management and reporting together in one transparent environment, helping teams generate trusted, reproducible evidence with greater efficiency and confidence.

Clarata dashboard interface

Why Teams Choose Clarata

We understand that literature reviews vary in scope, methodology and stakeholder expectations. Clarata supports systematic, targeted, pragmatic and scoping reviews, providing the flexibility needed to accommodate different review approaches.

Whether you’re conducting a rapid targeted review or a large-scale systematic review, Clarata adapts to your methodology, governance requirements and team structure, streamlining review delivery without disrupting established processes.

A literature review is worthless without confidence in its findings. Whether you’re informing internal research or supporting regulatory submissions, Clarata brings transparency to every stage, generating evidence you can trust.

Transparent workflows, reviewer oversight and quality- controlled data extraction strengthen methodological rigour. Data extraction is conducted in line with guidance, enabling both single-review extraction with independent verification and dual independent extraction with comparison.

Coordinating multiple reviewers and stakeholders makes alignment and transparency difficult. Clarata centralises review activities in a single platform, giving teams a shared view of progress, decisions and responsibilities throughout the review process.

Clarata’s flexible user roles, project-level oversight and documented decision-making help maintain consistency, strengthen effective collaboration and ensure stakeholders remain aligned as reviews progress.

Literature reviews rely on expert judgement, yet reviewers often spend significant time on repetitive administrative tasks. Clarata reduces the administrative burden of conducting reviews, accelerating review delivery without compromising quality.

By streamlining review processes, Clarata frees reviewers to focus their expertise on generating the value that matters most: interpreting findings, identifying evidence gaps and supporting informed decision-making.

What Can Clarata Do?

 

Upload records from reference managers or database searches through CSV and RIS file imports. Searching multiple databases? Clarata handles multiple uploads and automatically flags duplicate records for review.

Clarata supports both title/abstract and full-text screening. Choose between single-reviewer and dual-reviewer modes to tailor the process to your review. An audit trail records screening decisions throughout the review process.

Clarata enables both manual and AI-supported data extraction. Specify the number and type of extraction fields, and group related fields together to keep extraction organised.

Generate clear, dynamic visualisations from extracted data within Clarata. Filter your visualisations by characteristic captured during extraction and explore.

Clarata’s project dashboards provide real-time visibility of review progress and activity. Team management is fully flexible. Add or remove users, assign roles and adjust permissions throughout the review process.

Features

 

AI on Your Terms

Clarata puts reviewers firmly in control. Every AI feature is optional and can be enabled or disabled, so you decide how AI fits within your review.

  • AI-generated PICO summaries streamline screening decisions with concise, structured overviews of each record
  • AI-supported extractions allow you to develop custom prompts to tailor automated data extraction to your review

Review-Tailored Screening

Clarata’s screening features accelerate decision-making without compromising rigour.

  • Screening quality checks let project owners review a subset of screening decisions to review quality and ensure alignment in decision making between reviewers
  • Colour-coded keywords highlight relevant terms, accelerating inclusion/exclusion decisions
  • Custom inclusion/exclusion labels mean that you set the number and names of decision labels to fit each review. This supports the stratification of included and excluded studies for PRISMA flow diagram development and evidence prioritisation
  • Custom tags enable filtering of screened records by key characteristics
  • Notes enable reviewers to record the rationale behind each decision, maintaining context alongside decisions

Flexible Insights and Reporting

Clarata enables teams to monitor review activities, explore findings and generate insights tailored to their needs.

  • Project owner and reviewer roles provide role-specific access, with a shared project dashboard that gives teams visibility of review progress and enables project owners to maintain oversight
  • Record tags and inclusion/exclusion labels enable teams to filter and interact with data at a granular level, supporting evidence prioritisation as your review develops
  • Extracted data and visualisation filtering supports targeted exploration of findings, allowing teams to analyse data from different stakeholder perspectives and easily adapt as priorities shift
Clarata interface

Built on a Decade of Evidence Synthesis Expertise

Costello Medical has delivered more than 1,500 literature reviews, spanning over 100 indications, including more than 120 SLRs supporting HTA submissions.

Years of workflow iteration, practical learning and improvements to how evidence is identified, reviewed and reported have made Costello Medical an industry leader in delivering high quality literature reviews. Clarata embeds that experience into a single platform.

Built on over a decade of experience, designed for evidence you can trust.

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