Alpha Sophia
Claude Plugin

The Alpha Sophia Plugin for Claude: Healthcare Intelligence, Answered in Claude

Connect Claude to Alpha Sophia — the leading commercial healthcare intelligence platform — and answer targeting, KOL, and market-sizing questions on real, current, sourced US provider data. No more hallucinated names and numbers.

Alpha Sophia

Official Alpha Sophia plugin for Claude

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· Alpha Sophia plugin connected
Which cardiologists should my reps prioritize for our heart-failure launch in Texas?

1,976 Texas cardiologists actively managing heart failure (last 12 months). Top targets by HF patient volume:

  1. 1. Dr. S. P. · Bedford · Texas Health — 11,701
  2. 2. Dr. K. P. · Texarkana · Christus — 8,175
  3. 3. Dr. B. T. · Houston · Houston Cardio — 7,969
  4. 4. Dr. S. K. · Fort Worth · JPS Health — 7,932

Ranked on current, real-world data — sourced and safe to act on.

Illustrative example of a plugin-powered answer in Claude.

Real, sourced provider data — inside Claude

Alpha Sophia is the commercial healthcare intelligence platform life science teams use to find the right providers and size markets. The Claude plugin connects Claude to that same data backbone over MCP — so you can ask targeting and insights questions in plain English and get answers grounded in current, licensed US healthcare data, not the model's training cutoff.

Prefer ChatGPT or Cursor, or want fully autonomous workflows? See all the ways to connect AI agents to Alpha Sophia over MCP.

Why life sciences data is hard for AI on its own

A general-purpose model can't see your market. The plugin fixes the gaps that make raw AI risky for commercial and medical decisions.

No live, provider-level data

Models have a training cutoff — they can't see current procedure volumes, prescribing, affiliations, or who's publishing now.

Hallucinations, no sources

On their own, models invent provider names and numbers you have no way to verify — too risky to build strategy on.

Locked in proprietary data

Claims, NPI, and payments data are licensed and siloed — not on the open web a general model was trained on.

A high accuracy bar

A wrong target list wastes scarce rep time and budget. Decisions need defensible, sourced numbers.

The market shifts fast

Trials, practice moves, and KOL influence change every quarter — last year's snapshot is already stale.

Heavily regulated

HIPAA, the Sunshine Act, and MLR review demand outputs you can audit and defend — not a black box.

The fix: a vetted data plugin that gives Claude real, current, sourced data.

Claude alone vs. Claude + Alpha Sophia

Same question. The plugin is the difference between a hedged guess and a ranked, sourced answer you can act on.

Field sales & targeting

"Which cardiologists should my reps prioritize for our heart-failure launch in Texas?"

Claude on its own

"I can't give a reliable name-level list — I have no live provider data and a training cutoff. Directionally, look at the big advanced-heart-failure centers, then layer in your own claims/CRM data to rank individuals."

  • — Not based on recent data
  • — Sources you can't verify
  • — Too risky to build strategy on
Claude + Alpha Sophia plugin

1,976 Texas cardiologists actively managing heart failure (last 12 months). Top targets by HF patient volume, ranked and affiliation-linked.

  • + Ranked on current, real-world data
  • + Verified & sourced — safe to act on
  • + Exportable to your CRM
Medical affairs & KOLs

"Who are the top heart-failure KOLs we should engage before launch?"

Claude on its own

"I can name prominent HF experts, but treat them as starting points, not a ranking. Affiliations change and my data has a cutoff, so I can't rank by recent publications or active trials."

  • — Names may be out of date
  • — Can't rank by current evidence
  • — No sources to defend the list
Claude + Alpha Sophia plugin

163,733 HF publications in the last 12 months · 712 active trials. Leading KOLs ranked by current publications and trial activity, each sourced and affiliation-linked.

  • + Ranked by current pubs & trials
  • + Every name sourced & affiliation-linked
  • + Ready for your KOL map

Illustrative examples based on Alpha Sophia data.

How the plugin works

The plugin gives Claude both the tools (over MCP) and the playbook, so it queries Alpha Sophia the same disciplined way our in-app assistant does.

Connect the Alpha Sophia plugin to Claude over MCP with a single install and OAuth sign-in.

1. Connect the plugin once

Add the Alpha Sophia marketplace and install the plugin in Claude. Sign in with your Alpha Sophia account when prompted — OAuth, no API key. Claude is now connected to your licensed data backbone.

Ask targeting and insights questions in plain English directly in Claude.

2. Ask in plain English

No filter-building, no query language. Ask the way you'd ask a colleague — "how many", "find and rank", "how big is the market" — and Claude figures out which Alpha Sophia tools to call.

Claude resolves your terms to canonical IDs and runs structured filters against Alpha Sophia — no raw SQL, no hallucinated numbers.

3. Claude pulls real, sourced data

Behind the scenes, Claude resolves your terms (a specialty, a drug, a condition, a city) to canonical IDs, builds a structured filter, and runs it against Alpha Sophia — the same parse, build, execute pipeline as the app. Numbers come from data, not memory.

Get a finished deliverable — a ranked, sourced list or market-size answer you can export.

4. Get a deliverable

A ranked target list, a market-size number by state, a KOL shortlist — with the filters Claude applied stated in plain English so you can trust and refine the result, then take it into Alpha Sophia to export or sync to your CRM.

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Questions you can ask on day one

The same data backbone powers every role — so each team moves from days of research to minutes of answers.

Field Sales & Targeting

Needs: HCP volumes, affiliations & contacts

  • Which cardiologists should my reps prioritize for our heart-failure launch in Texas?
  • Show me the top 50 interventional cardiologists in Florida by PCI volume.
  • Who are my highest-volume endocrinologists for this quarter in the Northeast?

Marketing

Needs: Geographic & procedure trends

  • Which metros over-index for total knee replacement — where should we spend?
  • Where is demand for this procedure concentrated geographically?
  • How is procedure volume for this CPT code trending nationally?

Market Access

Needs: Sites of care, by geography

  • How many sites of care perform TAVR, and where are they?
  • List hospitals in Texas that perform knee replacements, ranked by volume.
  • Which laboratories run this diagnostic, by state?

Medical Affairs / MSL

Needs: Publications, trials & KOLs

  • Who's publishing and running trials on this indication right now?
  • Rank heart-failure KOLs by recent publications and active trials.
  • Find top investigators on Alzheimer’s trials in California.

Sales Ops

Needs: Clean, exportable target lists

  • Build a CRM-ready target list with volumes and affiliations.
  • Match this conference attendee list to NPIs and enrich it.
  • Segment these providers by specialty and territory.

Commercial Insights

Needs: Market sizing & benchmarks

  • Size the addressable market for this therapy by state.
  • What's the national market size for hip replacement procedures?
  • How many publications on this drug have come out since 2022?

Run end-to-end workflows with Claude Cowork

A single answer is great. A finished deliverable is better. In Claude Cowork, Claude works as an agent — chaining multiple Alpha Sophia calls and its own reasoning into a complete piece of work.

Reach for an agent when…

  • — it needs live data or your tools
  • — it takes more than one step
  • — you want a finished deliverable
  • — you'll run it again (make it a repeatable skill)

A chatbot is plenty for a quick answer or a reworded email. For a ranked, sourced, exportable deliverable, use an agent.

What Cowork chains together

  1. 1. Resolve the disease, procedure, and geography to canonical IDs
  2. 2. Pull and rank providers by real-world volume
  3. 3. Cross-reference KOLs by recent publications and active trials
  4. 4. Assemble a target list or territory plan
  5. 5. Hand off to Alpha Sophia to export or sync to your CRM
Build and rank a target list from live data as an end-to-end Claude Cowork workflow.

Build a ranked target list

"Build and rank a Texas heart-failure target list from live data, then draft a one-line territory note for each rep."

Create a pre-launch KOL engagement map end to end in Claude Cowork.

Map your KOLs before launch

"Create a pre-launch KOL map: top authors and investigators for our indication, with affiliations and recent output."

Produce a market-sizing brief by state end to end in Claude Cowork.

Produce a market-sizing brief

"Produce a market-sizing brief by state for our therapy, with sites of care and procedure volumes, laid out as a table."

The full data backbone, exposed to Claude

Every Alpha Sophia entity is available to the plugin — the same data that powers the web app, scoped to your organization.

Search, count, and market-size US healthcare providers (HCPs) in Claude.
Providers (HCPs)
Search, count, and market-size physicians and clinicians by specialty, procedure, diagnosis, prescribing, location, and affiliation.
Find and rank sites of care — hospitals, clinics, labs, pharmacies — in Claude.
Sites of care (HCOs)
Hospitals, clinics, labs, and pharmacies — by procedure, geography, org type, and affiliated-provider footprint.
Search clinical trials and investigators in Claude.
Trials & investigators
Clinical trials by phase, status, and condition — plus the investigators (KOLs) running them.
Search publications and authors in Claude.
Publications & authors
The literature by topic, journal, and chemical — and the authors (KOLs) publishing on your area right now.
Market sizing across providers and sites of care in Claude.
Market sizing
Sum procedure volume, estimated sales, prescription cost, or open-payments dollars across any filter.
Resolve medical terms to canonical IDs before filtering in Claude.
Entity resolution
Specialties, procedures (CPT/HCPCS), ICD-10 codes, drugs, conditions, journals, and locations resolved to canonical IDs — never guessed.
Alpha Sophia

Install the Alpha Sophia plugin

Two commands in Claude Code, then sign in. Your organization needs an Alpha Sophia subscription with the API and Agent modules enabled.

Code
# 1. Add the Alpha Sophia marketplace
/plugin marketplace add alphasophia/claude-plugins

# 2. Install the plugin
/plugin install alpha-sophia@alpha-sophia

# 3. Reload, then sign in when Claude first calls a tool
/reload-plugins
OAuth sign-in

No API key. Claude prompts you to sign in with your Alpha Sophia account on the first question.

Scoped to your org

Every answer is drawn from your licensed data and metered against your agent token balance.

Same data as the app

The plugin uses the same pipeline as the Alpha Sophia web app, so answers stay consistent.

Not sure if your plan includes plugin access? Talk to our team.

Built for your commercial & medical teams

Same data backbone — every role moves from days of research to minutes of answers.

Field sales

Highest-volume targets for the quarter, with affiliations and contacts.

Marketing

Which metros over-index for a procedure — so you know where to spend.

Market access

How many sites of care perform a procedure, and exactly where they are.

Medical affairs / MSL

Who's publishing and running trials on your topic right now.

Sales ops

Clean, exportable target lists with volumes and affiliations.

Commercial insights

Addressable market sizing and benchmarks by therapy and geography.

Enterprise-grade access controls and human review for regulated AI workflows.

Defensible by design

Access is authenticated per user and scoped to your organization, under the same enterprise-grade controls trusted by 100+ life science customers. Because answers are sourced from Alpha Sophia rather than the model's memory, they're traceable and auditable. As with any AI in a regulated setting, keep a human in the loop before outputs inform irreversible actions or regulated content.

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FAQs

What is the Alpha Sophia plugin for Claude?

It's an official plugin that connects Claude to Alpha Sophia — the leading commercial healthcare intelligence platform. Once installed, Claude can answer targeting and insights questions using real, current, sourced US provider data instead of guessing from its training data. It bundles our MCP (Model Context Protocol) server and a built-in playbook so Claude uses the data the same way our in-app assistant does.

How does the plugin work with my Alpha Sophia subscription?

The plugin connects Claude to the same data backbone that powers the Alpha Sophia web app, scoped to your organization. You sign in with your Alpha Sophia account, and every answer is drawn from your licensed data — providers (HCPs), organizations (HCOs), sites of care, clinical trials, investigators, publications, and authors. Your org needs the API and Agent modules enabled, an active subscription, and available agent tokens.

What is MCP and how does Claude get the data?

MCP (Model Context Protocol) is the open standard Claude uses to call external tools. The Alpha Sophia plugin exposes tools like resolve_entity, search/count/market_size for providers and sites of care, and search/count for clinical trials, investigators, publications, and authors. When you ask a question, Claude resolves your terms to canonical IDs, builds a structured filter, and runs it against Alpha Sophia — no raw SQL, no hallucinated numbers.

How do I install the Alpha Sophia plugin in Claude?

In Claude Code, add our marketplace and install the plugin: "/plugin marketplace add alphasophia/claude-plugins" then "/plugin install alpha-sophia@alpha-sophia". Restart or run "/reload-plugins", and sign in with your Alpha Sophia account when prompted on the first question.

Do I need an API key?

No. The plugin uses OAuth: the first time Claude calls an Alpha Sophia tool, it prompts you to sign in with your Alpha Sophia account and approve access. There is no API key to copy or environment variable to set.

What kinds of questions can I ask?

Anything you would use Alpha Sophia for: building and ranking target lists, market sizing, finding sites of care, mapping KOLs by publications and trials, and geographic or procedure trend analysis. Ask in plain English — for example, "Which cardiologists should my reps prioritize for our heart-failure launch in Texas?" or "Size the addressable market for this therapy by state."

What is Claude Cowork and how does it help?

Claude Cowork lets Claude work as an agent that chains multiple steps into a finished deliverable. With the Alpha Sophia plugin connected, Claude can resolve a disease and geography, pull and rank providers by volume, cross-reference KOLs by publications and trials, and assemble an exportable target list or territory plan end to end — turning days of research into minutes.

Are the answers sourced and verifiable?

Yes. Because every answer is generated from Alpha Sophia data rather than the model’s memory, results are current and traceable to the underlying provider, site, trial, publication, and author records — so they are defensible enough to build commercial strategy on.

Which teams is it built for?

Commercial and medical teams across life sciences and healthcare: field sales and targeting, marketing, market access, medical affairs and MSLs, sales operations, and commercial insights. Everyone works from the same data backbone, so answers stay consistent across roles.

Is it secure and compliant?

Access is authenticated per user and scoped to your organization, under the same enterprise-grade controls trusted by 100+ life science customers. As with any AI workflow in a regulated environment, review outputs before they inform irreversible actions or regulated content.

Find and engage the right physicians, fast

Make informed connections with the most suitable healthcare providers for your product.

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