
Leveraging AI agents to turn HCP interactions into personalized next steps before the momentum dies.
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A year ago, Patrina and Pierre ran a session on turning raw congress data into insights using AI. You’d feed a spreadsheet into ChatGPT, ask for an analysis, and walk away with a dashboard. Useful. But still manual. You were doing all the work in the chat interface and then copying the output somewhere else to act on it.
2026 is a whole new game. Agents don’t just summarize. They do things.
Patrina’s analogy: AI chats have a brain but no arms or legs. Agents have both. And in some cases, eyes too. They can open your Outlook, read your congress spreadsheet, find the right HCP, draft the email, and route it. You simply review and hit send. That’s a very different workflow.
Pierre walked through what a full congress engagement picture looks like for a single HCP: booth scan, medical inquiry, symposium attendance, knowledge quiz, question asked live on stage, one-on-one KOL meeting transcript. 7,000 signals across roughly 400 to 500 HCPs in the demo data set.
An MSL isn’t going to comb through that manually. And even if they tried, they’d probably miss what matters most.
That’s the gap agents close. Patrina’s MSL Congress Follow-Up Genie pulled that spreadsheet in, identified the personalization signals for a specific HCP (Dr. Carter Richardson in the demo), built a multi-step outreach plan mapped to his awareness and belief levels, and drafted the emails. In minutes.
Pierre explained the Ebbinghaus curve. Essentially, HCPs give you roughly 7 days post-congress before the window closes. Not 3 weeks. Not whenever you get back from the next event prep cycle.
Patrina built an agent live using Claude inside Copilot Studio. She prompted it to build a follow-up agent, watched it name itself, write its own instructions, and test its own output. Including taking screenshots to check its own work, which is how agents compensate for not having eyes.
The output: a structured follow-up plan with cross-functional collaboration suggestions, a long-term outreach sequence, and drafted emails. Not generic. Tied to what that specific HCP did at the congress.
Pierre then explained how Onomi comes into play: instead of uploading a spreadsheet, the agent connects directly to the Onomi Congress MCP. Real-time access to congress signals, with proper access controls (you see your own HCPs, not your colleagues’) and compliance guardrails built in. If an HCP hasn’t given consent, the agent flags it before an email goes anywhere.
Two layers here. The first is consent. Onomi captures it at the point of interaction, whether that’s a booth scan, a symposium registration, or a KOL meeting. If an HCP hasn’t provided consent, the agent flags it before any outreach is drafted. No consent, no follow-up recommendation. Full stop.
Patrina’s advice before logging off: think about your post-congress workflow as individual steps, then identify which step would actually benefit from an agent. Going too big too fast is where most teams get stuck. Start with: I’m an individual MSL, I need a follow-up plan for one HCP. Build from there.
Onomi is a platform that helps pharma instrument scientific exchanges at congresses, webinars and advisory boards – connecting KOL engagement, booth insights, and symposium data into a single evidence layer integrated with your CRM.
With over 22 years of experience & trusted by 15 of the top 20 life science companies, Onomi creates engaging HCP experiences, measures real impact & is more cost-effective than traditional point solutions.
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MSL Excellence Lead
Patrina is a scientist by training (PhD in Cell Biology from Yale) and a visionary in the field of
Medical Affairs.
She is the founder of MSL Mastery and runs the highly regarded Medical Affairs Value blog.
She has worked with over 100 Medical Affairs teams globally, helping them move beyond
simple KPIs to demonstrate true strategic value. Patrina is particularly recognized for her
expertise in MSL insights and her forward-thinking approach to integrating AI into Medical
Affairs.
CEO
Pierre has spent over two decades helping enterprises engage their live audiences. After joining SpotMe in 2001, he led its pivot to SaaS in 2011, and as CEO since 2016 has built the company around making every face-to-face interaction count where it matters most: inside the CRM.
That conviction led him to launch Onomi, a customer engagement platform for life sciences. Pierre is a computer scientist by trade and holds degrees from EPFL and INSEAD.