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Researcher workspace

Run a study from one clear view.

Give your team one place to set up protocols, coordinate participant schedules, monitor enrollment, review safety signals, and prepare study data.

Guide scope

Audience
Study teams
Surface
Researcher Dashboard
Includes
9 workflows
Updated
July 2026

The TrialPilot Researcher Dashboard is the operating workspace for study teams. It brings study setup, participant monitoring, safety review, and data preparation into one de-identified view, so coordinators and investigators can move from protocol design to day-to-day operations without switching tools. The exact options you see depend on your organization role, enabled sign-in methods, and whether the active study is still in draft or has already been published.

RoleTypical access
Organization AdminManage organization settings, members, studies, and study operations.
Study AdminCreate and configure studies within an organization.
InvestigatorReview study status, participants, recruitment, safety, and reporting workflows.
CoordinatorMonitor participants and day-to-day trial operations.
ViewerRead-only visibility where granted.

Getting started

Register

  1. Open the Researcher Dashboard registration page.
  2. Enter your display name, email address, and password.
  3. Select Register.
  4. If email verification is enabled, check your inbox and follow the verification link.

Passwords must be at least 8 characters when registering. If Google sign-in is enabled, you may also use Continue with Google. A Google-created account may not have a password at first; you can add one later from Account Settings.

Log in

  1. Open the Researcher Dashboard login page.
  2. Enter your email address and password.
  3. Select Login.

If email sign-in flows are enabled, you can request a one-time magic link by entering your email address, selecting Email Me a Magic Link, and opening the link from your inbox.

Account security

From Account Settings, you can:

  • Update your display name.
  • View your account email address.
  • Resend email verification when your email is unverified.
  • Add or change your password.
  • Review linked external sign-in methods.
  • Unlink an external sign-in provider when another sign-in method remains available.
  • Review active sessions, including the current session.
  • Select Log Out Everywhere to revoke active sessions across devices and browsers.

Workspace setup

After login, the dashboard opens your active workspace. If you already have a selected study, you are taken to that study's dashboard. If you do not belong to an organization or study yet, TrialPilot shows setup prompts.

TrialPilot Researcher Dashboard
TrialPilot Researcher Dashboard study dashboard with enrollment, assessment completion, withdrawal, and engagement charts.
The study dashboard becomes the main workspace once an organization and active study are selected.

Create an organization

  1. Select Create Organization.
  2. Enter the organization name.
  3. Select Create Organization.

The person who creates an organization is automatically set as its organization administrator. Organization names on the creation form can be up to 30 characters.

Join an existing organization

If your organization already exists, ask an organization administrator to invite you. The invite is sent to the email address associated with your account. The invited email must already have a TrialPilot researcher account.

Organization administration

Organization administration is available to organization admins.

Studies

View all studies in the active organization, including study type, status, visibility, invite code, participant count, principal investigator, and created date.

Members

Invite organization users by email, choose a role, change another member's role, or remove a member from the organization.

Settings

Manage organization logo, name, primary contact, IRB contact information, mailing address, and website.

Logo uploads

Logos appear in participant-facing materials. Uploads accept PNG or JPEG images under 2 MB.

Creating a study

  1. Make sure the correct organization is active.
  2. Select Create Study from the no-studies prompt or Organization > Studies.
  3. Enter the study name.
  4. Select Create Study.

Study names can be up to 50 characters and are visible to participants. New studies begin in draft status, and TrialPilot opens the Study Builder after creation.

TrialPilot Researcher Dashboard
TrialPilot Researcher Dashboard Study Builder with protocol fields, study phase, invite code, and navigation tabs.
After creating a study, the Study Builder guides setup across protocol, participants, assessments, safety, regulatory, localization, and publishing.

Study Builder

Study Builder configures protocol information, participant criteria, assessments, interventions, consent, regulatory details, localization, randomization, and publishing. When you leave a tab with unsaved changes, TrialPilot asks whether you want to save, discard, or cancel.

Protocol

  • Protocol identification: short title, study phase, full title, protocol number, IND study status, and invite code.
  • Study design: design type, blinding, control type, randomization ratio, duration, intervention start delay, and wearable baseline duration.
  • Study team: principal investigator, clinical project manager, medical monitor, and study coordinator.
  • Objectives and endpoints: primary, secondary, exploratory, and safety objectives.
  • Regulatory and oversight: sponsor information, responsible party details, NCT number, FDA serial number, and protocol version metadata.

Participants

Define total sample size, per-arm sample size for randomized designs, inclusion criteria, exclusion criteria, and withdrawal or discontinuation criteria. For randomized designs, the dashboard shows ratio and power-calculation context based on the sample size inputs.

Interventions, safety, and consent

Interventions define product name, generic name or class, administration route, formulation, comparator, and dose escalation schedule. Safety & Consent configures eConsent content, IRB or ethics information, adverse-event definitions, SAE definition, and Data Safety Monitoring Board information.

Regulatory profile

Configure the reporting regime, sponsor-investigator IIT setting, IND or IDE numbers, exemption rationale, Investigator's Brochure version, investigator-to-sponsor reporting window, and red-flag rules.

Randomization and adaptive platform studies

Randomized controlled, crossover, and factorial designs expose the Randomization tab. Use it to configure arms or factors, block settings, strata, allocations, locking, participant randomization, audit review, and emergency unblinding with a required reason.

Adaptive platform studies evaluate multiple intervention arms against a shared control. Enabling platform mode reveals the Platform tab for arms, coded labels, allocation weights, control status, error-control policy, response-adaptive guardrails, and combination design settings.

TrialPilot Researcher Dashboard
TrialPilot adaptive platform study screen showing arm status and platform study controls.
Adaptive platform studies add a dedicated runtime workspace for arm management, blinded status, and audit review.

Localization and publishing

Localization manages authoring and target languages, validation coverage, and published localized participant content. The Publish tab reviews whether required fields are complete and sets the study to enrolling when validation passes.

Assessments and study sessions

In TrialPilot, study sessions are built from scheduled assessments, daily check-ins, intervention logs, wearable baselines, and PEM capture. The Assessments tab defines the participant tasks that make up the study schedule.

Add an assessment

  1. Open Assessments.
  2. Select Add Assessment.
  3. Filter by category if needed.
  4. Select an assessment.
  5. Select Add Assessment.
  6. Configure its schedule if it is not continuous.

Assessment schedule types

  • Baseline: performed before the study begins.
  • None: included without a repeating schedule.
  • Daily.
  • Weekly.
  • Custom weeks, such as week 2, week 4, and week 8.
  • Continuous assessments are added without a schedule dialog.

How schedules become participant tasks

  • Baseline assessments open before the study starts.
  • Daily and weekly assessments become recurring participant tasks.
  • Custom week assessments open on the selected study weeks.
  • Intervention logs are driven by the intervention and dosing setup.
  • Daily check-ins track participant symptoms and PEM signals.
  • Wearable baseline settings define the pre-intervention wearable run-in.
TrialPilot Researcher Dashboard
TrialPilot mobile assessment screen showing a participant completing a study task.
Scheduled assessments become participant-facing tasks in the mobile app.
TrialPilot Researcher Dashboard
TrialPilot wearable metrics screen showing cohort wearable coverage and trends.
Wearable baseline and ongoing wearable collection help the team monitor real-world data coverage.

Study operations

Study dashboard

The dashboard is the operational home for an active study. It shows study status, visibility, type, principal investigator, enrollment progress, completion rates, withdrawal count, average study day, health signals, attention-needed items, metrics charts, recruitment funnel, wearable cohort status, and recent activity.

Common actions include Share Invite, Export Study, Configuration, and Participants. Participant-level recent activity may be hidden until the study has at least 20 participants.

Participants

The Participants page monitors de-identified participant progress with study-scoped IDs, enrollment date, current study day, health status, assessment completion, daily check-in rate, intervention log rate, wearable status, last active time, participant status, and adverse event count.

Participant detail pages include Overview, Daily Check-Ins, Assessments, Interventions, Wearable, and PEM episodes tabs. Participant-level researcher views are suppressed for small cohorts until a study has at least 20 participants.

TrialPilot Researcher Dashboard
TrialPilot Researcher Dashboard Participants page with pseudonymous participant IDs, study day, health status, completion rates, and adverse event counts.
The participant table uses study-scoped pseudonymous IDs and highlights completion, wearable, activity, and safety signals.

Recruitment

Recruitment queries the TrialPilot research registry for potential participants beyond the current study's direct reach. Researchers see counts only, TrialPilot sends the invitations, and members are not contacted more than once every two weeks.

Safety operations

Escalations

Escalations show red-flag reports routed to emergency care. Participants are already instructed to contact emergency resources at the moment of reporting; the study team's role is follow-up and documentation.

Triage queue

Triage is where reviewers inspect patient symptom reports, review severity and red-flag status, convert reports into recordable adverse events, or dismiss reports with a reason. The system does not classify self-reports as adverse events on its own.

TrialPilot Researcher Dashboard
TrialPilot PEM episodes dashboard showing detected post-exertional malaise episodes by participant.
PEM and safety views make participant-reported signals easier to review without exposing direct identifiers.

Adverse events and reporting

Adverse events show verbatim term, participant pseudonym, seriousness, CTCAE grade, reportability, and workflow state. Event detail pages support seriousness, causality, expectedness, reportability, reporting obligations, submission completion, resolution, and E2B(R3) ICSR generation.

Reporting shows every reporting clock across the study, links each obligation to its adverse event, highlights overdue clocks, and surfaces sponsor task checklists when available.

TrialPilot Researcher Dashboard
TrialPilot compliance and safety workflow screen with regulatory status cards.
Safety, reporting, and compliance workflows are designed to keep review actions traceable.

Data and regulatory

Data management

Data management covers trial-of-record workflows: queries, coding, controlled lock, export, and audit. It is designed around Part 11 / ALCOA+ expectations with versioned and auditable values.

TrialPilot Researcher Dashboard
TrialPilot data export screen showing EDC and CDISC-oriented export controls.
Data management supports query, coding, lock, export, and audit workflows for trial-of-record data.

Regulatory workspace

Regulatory manages overview status, submissions, amendments, and reportable events. It is intended to support activation gates so a study cannot enroll without current approval when that rule applies.

Exports and invite codes

Export Study supports data type, format, start date, end date, and wide format when supported. Each study has an invite code that can be copied from Study Builder or shared from the study dashboard. Public studies may appear in participant-facing discovery surfaces; invite-only studies require an invite path.

Recommended first-study checklist

  1. Register or log in.
  2. Create or join an organization.
  3. Complete organization settings, including contact and IRB details.
  4. Invite study-team members and assign roles.
  5. Create a study.
  6. Complete the Protocol tab.
  7. Complete participant criteria and sample size.
  8. Add assessments and configure their schedules.
  9. Configure interventions and dosing.
  10. Complete Safety & Consent.
  11. Complete the regulatory profile.
  12. Configure randomization or adaptive platform settings when applicable.
  13. Configure localization when needed.
  14. Review the study for publishing.
  15. Publish the study.
  16. Share the invite code or run recruitment feasibility.
  17. Monitor enrollment, completion, wearable coverage, and safety queues.
  18. Use reporting, regulatory, and data-management workspaces throughout the study.