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

  • Writer: Christian Schulze
    Christian Schulze
  • Jun 1
  • 1 min read

The answer? Nobody.


I assessed Adobe, Salesforce, and Veeva across ๐Ÿฏ๐Ÿญ ๐˜€๐˜‚๐—ฏ-๐—ฐ๐—ฟ๐—ถ๐˜๐—ฒ๐—ฟ๐—ถ๐—ฎ in ๐Ÿฑ ๐—ฑ๐—ถ๐—บ๐—ฒ๐—ป๐˜€๐—ถ๐—ผ๐—ป๐˜€. Scored each 1 to 5. Verified against 60+ sources.


The result is... uncomfortable.


Here is what I can tell you:


๐Ÿญ. No single vendor scores above 4.0 across all dimensions.

Not one.


๐Ÿฎ. The spread within a single vendor is brutal.

One scores 4.86 in one dimension and 2.17 in another. Same company. Same platform.


๐Ÿฏ. 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.


๐Ÿฐ. 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.


๐Ÿฑ. 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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