Background Paths
Background Paths

Opendelphi

No research study should be designed on one person's assumptions. Design data-collection instruments by expert consensus, grounded in current science.

From study goal to consensus instrument

1Describe your study goals
2AI drafts citation-bound candidate instruments
3Your expert panel converges through Delphi rounds
See How It WorksFree for research use

How It Works

From study goal to deployed, consensus-backed data collection.

01

Describe

A principal investigator describes the study goals in plain language.

02

Draft

AI drafts candidate instruments grounded in validated research instruments and current literature — corpus citations are validated against the retrieval set, and ungrounded drafts are flagged for review.

03

Converge

An anonymous expert panel converges through structured Delphi rounds with convergence statistics and a full audit trail.

04

Collect

Consensus materializes into modular forms that contributing institutes deploy and fill under HIPAA-aligned access controls.

Consensus-driven instrument design, end to end

Every data-collection instrument on Opendelphi is traceable to an AI-assisted, expert-consensus process grounded in current science.

Delphi Consensus Engine

Multi-round expert panels with anonymity controls, convergence statistics (median, IQR, percent agreement), and moderator tooling.

AI Instrument Drafting

Drafting grounded in a corpus of validated research instruments and current literature. Corpus citations are validated against the actual retrieval set, and any item drafted without grounding is flagged for moderator review.

Open Round 0

Experts generate ideas first; AI clusters them. Anti-anchoring by default — AI-drafted starting points are strictly opt-in.

Modular Forms

Instruments compose from toggleable modules — clinical, demographic, pathology, and more. Each institute enables the modules it can fill.

Multi-Institute Collection

Jurisdiction, IRB, and data-use-agreement gates are checked before collection opens. Role-based access scopes every response to its institute.

Built for HIPAA Compliance

Row-level security on every PHI table, append-only audit logging, eConsent capture, and a de-identification pipeline for exports.

Interoperates with your research stack

Built to fit existing research workflows, not replace them.

REDCap

Round-trip REDCap data dictionaries — import existing instruments and export deployable ones.

CSV Export

Export study data as CSV with a field-level metadata sidecar documenting provenance.

ACIWriter

Hand off de-identified consensus findings to ACIWriter to draft research papers from your results.

Free for research use

Running a Delphi round or deploying a collection form will never be paywalled.

The research core — free

The full instrument-design and data-collection platform.

  • AI-assisted instrument drafting with citation binding
  • Structured Delphi consensus rounds
  • Modular form composition and deployment
  • Multi-institute data collection
  • Audit trails and eConsent capture
Get Started

Paid tier — planned

A future paid tier will cover analytics across studies — never the core.

  • Aggregated cross-study analytics
  • Unified querying across public data repositories

Not yet available — no pricing published.

Design your next instrument by consensus

Free for research use. Built for HIPAA compliance.