I spent the weekend to finalize the report on "who wins the AI race in pharma CX?"
- Christian Schulze

- Jun 1
- 1 min read
The answer? Nobody.
I assessed Adobe, Salesforce, and Veeva across ๐ฏ๐ญ ๐๐๐ฏ-๐ฐ๐ฟ๐ถ๐๐ฒ๐ฟ๐ถ๐ฎ in ๐ฑ ๐ฑ๐ถ๐บ๐ฒ๐ป๐๐ถ๐ผ๐ป๐. Scored each 1 to 5. Verified against 60+ sources.
The result is... uncomfortable.
Here is what I can tell you:
๐ญ. No single vendor scores above 4.0 across all dimensions.
Not one.
๐ฎ. The spread within a single vendor is brutal.
One scores 4.86 in one dimension and 2.17 in another. Same company. Same platform.
๐ฏ. The vendor with the highest overall score still has a dimension where it scores below 3.
Leadership in pharma CRM does not mean leadership in content creation. Or data. Or orchestration.
๐ฐ. The platform everyone ignores in pharma CX conversations?
It dominates 3 out of 5 dimensions with scores of 4.67, 4.17, and 3.83.
๐ฑ. The "best" architecture is not a single vendor bet.
It never was. But now there is data to prove it.
I built this assessment because I was tired of vendor marketing decks telling me they "lead in AI."
Everyone claims leadership. Nobody proves it across the full CX stack.
So I did what any consultant with two teenagers and zero patience for marketing fluff would do: I built a framework, scored it, had it QA-reviewed by three independent agents, and put 60+ sources behind it.
The full report (12 pages, spider charts, dimension breakdowns, vendor profiles, the complete 31-point framework) is available as a free download.
If you are making platform decisions in pharma right now, this might save you from a very expensive mistake.




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