The shortest path to medical device approval starts here

Dovetail is an alternative to the consultant path. You get a senior regulatory expert embedded into your team, backed by our AI agent and purpose-built eQMS. We write the submissions, sit in the auditor meetings and stay with you until your device is approved. Full regulatory leadership, without the cost of a full-time hire.

Getting to market is hard enough. The regulatory process shouldn't make it harder

Most founders face the same three options when it comes to regulatory. None of them are good enough on their own

Consultants advise. You still do the work.

Expensive, opaque and built for large companies. They tell you what needs doing and hand it back to you to do. You're paying for direction, not delivery, and the clock runs while your runway disappears.

Software that stores documents but won't write them.

eQMS tools keep things organised, but they can't draft your technical file, run your gap analysis or explain your system when the auditor arrives. You still need to know your stuff, and someone still has to do the work.

General AI is smart, but it can't represent you.

ChatGPT and Claude will get you part of the way there, but they hallucinate on regulation, can't sit in your auditor meeting and leave your IP exposed. Intelligence isn't the same as expertise, and in this space the difference matters.
There's a gap in the middle. Dovetail fills it.

Regulatory certainty when it counts

Companies across markets trust Formly with their most complex, life-saving medical devices.

Thank God we found Formly. They saved us 3-5 years by giving us the right advice and sparing us from having to navigate it all ourselves. They are true partners, not vendors. We truly feel they are here with us.

Christiaan FultonChromacare
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A senior regulatory team in your corner, from day one to approval.

Human expertise at the helm, AI doing the work it's actually good at, and an eQMS that keeps everything audit-ready. One team, yours.

Embedded senior regulatory leadership

An expert regulatory lead who stays with you from strategy to approval that doesn't just advise, they write the submissions, run the gap analyses and sit in the meetings that matter. Your champion through the entire journey.

An AI agent trained on the boring parts

Our AI agent handles what AI is genuinely good at: drafting, checking, explaining and searching live regulation sources, so your regulatory lead spends their time on the decisions that need real human judgment.

An eQMS built to be used, not filed away

Built for and used by our own expert team on the most complex cases every day. Store design files, collaborate in real time, migrate in from your existing system and port out whenever you need, with no lock-in.

Packaged for Startups

Milestone-Based

100% Money-Back Guarantee*

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Secure your place in the market

The numbers behind the founders who chose the shortest path.

80+

Successful certifications

100%

Audit success rate

5x

Faster submissions

€70K

Average avoided costs

Global market access

Your path to global approval no longer requires different specialists for every jurisdiction.

  • FDA
  • EU MDR
  • EU IVDR
  • UKCA
  • ISO 13485
  • MDSAP
PLATFORM

Packed full of features to make your life easier

Used by our own regulatory experts on the most complex cases every day, so by the time it gets to yours, it's road tested where it matters.

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Illustration of collaborative regulatory work in Formly

Designed by regulatory experts and used by them every day on real submissions to the FDA, notified bodies, and beyond. Every feature in here has earned its place.

How we're different

Not a consultancy. Not just software.

Consultants
eQMS-only
Formly
Write the submission
Advise only
No
Yes
AI agent, trained for medtech
No
Sometimes
Yes
Named senior lead, stays with you
Often churns
N/A
Yes
Money-back guarantee on clearance
No
N/A
Yes
Startup-aligned pricing
Rarely
Sometimes
Yes
PRICING

Startup focused pricing

Priced for runway, not billable hours. Milestone-based payments, rear-loaded terms, and no payment at all if your device doesn't clear. Here's how most founders start.

Free Discovery Session

€0

HOW IT WORKS

Speak directly with our regulatory experts and get an honest assessment of your device classification, your pathway to market and exactly where you stand before you commit to anything.

    • No obligation to proceed

    • All discussed under NDA

    • Your IP stays yours

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    Call for pricing of your classification

    HOW IT WORKS

    Everything from QMS implementation and technical file creation through to management of submissions and audits, clinical evaluation planning, post-market surveillance setup and multi-jurisdiction submissions run in parallel.

      • Fixed pricing

      • Milestone based payments

      • Money-back guarantee

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      APPROVAL STAGES

      The shortest path to medical device approval

      Working with Dovetail typically involves five core stages. These aren't always strictly sequential and often run in parallel, because regulatory clearance rarely moves in a straight line. Find your path to approval.

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      1. Regulatory Strategy

        Identify the ideal pathway for your device

      2. QMS Build-Out

        eQMS setup, SOPs, and training

      3. Design Freeze

        Feature sets under design control

      4. Testing

        Test with efficiency and confidence

      5. Audits & Certification

        We're in the meeting and you pass.

      Just need the software?

      If you've got regulatory expertise in-house and just need a better QMS that's supercharged by AI then we've got you covered.

      Frequently Asked Questions

      Here's some common questions we get, if you've got one that's not here feel free to get in touch.

      Safe and secure

      Your IP, design files and trade secrets are protected by full NDAs, ISO 27001-aligned security and comprehensive contracts, so you retain complete ownership of everything you bring to us.

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      Ready for market?

      Start with a 30-minute discovery call. We'll tell you whether Dovetail is right for you and, if so, what the shortest path to clearance looks like. No sales pitch, no obligation, and everything discussed under NDA.

      In good company

      We work closely with leading medtech accelerators, industry associations and the investors backing the next generation of devices. That network is part of what you get when you work with Formly.