Evidence-First Drug Repurposing

Find the next blockbuster indication before anyone else.

SweetSpot transforms completed clinical trial evidence into strategic intelligence for drug repurposing, indication prioritization, clinical development and study design — helping organizations make better investment and regulatory decisions.

Where drugs work best — trusted by biotech, pharma and life-science investors
The Problem

Most drugs fail in their lead indication

High failure rates — especially in late-stage trials — persist because preclinical models poorly predict patient outcomes, and efficacy often fails despite early safety and pharmacology signals. The key challenge is identifying the right indication early.

33.6%
Phase I to II
41.7%
Phase II to III
41.0%
Phase III to Approval
86.2%
Overall Attrition
Failure rate by development stage — Wong CH et al., Biostatistics (2019)
High attrition, especially late-stage, is the norm. Better indication selection early can change the odds.
Evidence-First Platform

Delivering innovation in indication finding

We combine advanced analytics and deep therapeutic-area expertise to turn completed randomized clinical trial evidence into a clear, defensible roadmap — informing smarter, faster decisions across the drug development lifecycle.

Drug Repurposing

Identify clinically meaningful therapeutic opportunities from completed randomized clinical trials, uncovering signals that traditional discovery methods miss.

Clinical Development

Select indications, optimize endpoints and strengthen development programs before launching new studies, reducing avoidable trial risk.

Strategic Benchmarking

Compare assets, evaluate competitive landscapes and prioritize investments with a shared, evidence-based frame of reference.

Regulatory Intelligence

Support evidence-based decisions that maximize approval probability and commercial value across target indications.

Our Philosophy

Finding the Sweet Spot

The right indication. The right patients. The right benefit-risk balance — the specific indication and patient population where a drug delivers maximum benefit, acceptable risk and reaches the biology most likely to respond.

Maximum Benefit

Strong, clinically meaningful efficacy — not marginal or statistically fragile effects.

Acceptable Risk

A manageable safety profile appropriate to the population and setting.

Right Patient Population

The biology most likely to respond, defined by indication, patient characteristics and dose/regimen context.

Rigorous Method

We re-analyze completed trials as if run for another indication

Randomized controlled trials are patient physiological perturbation experiments. By systematically re-examining dose, target engagement and outcomes, we reveal heterogeneity of response, integrate benefit-risk evidence, and define the sweet spot for each asset.

Data

Evidence Ingestion

Randomized controlled trials (drug vs. control), drug mode of action, disease landscape and patient-level outcomes are aggregated and harmonized.

Analytics

Cross-Indication Modeling

Drug effect on trial outcomes, Bayesian probability-of-success modeling, and effect prediction in new indications.

Key Attributes

Treatment-Effect Benchmarking

Drug mode of action and clinical effect are linked to disease and trial outcomes across the full evidence base.

Result

Evidence Map

Proof of pharmacology, benefit-risk assessment, and predicted effect in new indications — a clinical development roadmap.

Key success criteria: quality data, rigorous methodology, indication finding, specificity assessment and robustness benchmarking. Quality in. Clarity out.
Numbers Driving a Brighter Future for Patients

Impact at a Glance

Our platform integrates the full landscape of relevant clinical trial data to guide indication selection with greater confidence and speed.

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Drugs with Repurposing Options
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Indications Screened per Asset
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% Evidence Driven — No Proprietary Datasets Required
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M$+ Average Cost of Drug Development We Help You Avoid Repeating
Value · Trust · Decide

Strategic services when and where it counts

We evaluate your assets and objectives to strategically guide your program's roadmap, delivering a targeted indication strategy supported by rigorous evidence, robust analytics and a trusted network of therapeutic-area experts.

  • Value: An indication guide without a new study
  • Trust: Source-verified, retrospectively validated evidence
  • Decide: Benchmark all compounds in clinical development and prioritize new indications
100% Life Sciences Focused
Evidence-Based Methodology
Aligned, Success-Based Incentives

Why organizations choose SweetSpot

100% Life Sciences. Our entire commitment to life-science innovation is built to improve program development and deliver faster, positive outcomes for patients.

In-Depth Expertise. By fully understanding your program, we determine your asset's potential and define the most relevant roadmap forward.

Rigorous, Data-Driven Analytics. Our indication-finding pipeline turns dense clinical evidence into clear, decision-ready intelligence — with retrospective validation that's easy to verify on drugs already on the market.

Our Story

Where clinical trial statistics meets drug pharmacology and AI

SweetSpot was born from a simple observation, made across hundreds of clinical trials: the evidence needed to find a drug's next indication is usually already sitting in completed trial data, waiting to be re-read the right way. We combined deep clinical trial biostatistics expertise with drug pharmacology and modern AI-driven analytics to build a platform that turns that evidence into a repeatable, defensible discipline.

Leadership

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Francois Vandenhende, PhD

Founder

A PhD statistician with experience as study statistician and line manager across more than 100 clinical trials spanning Phase I to Phase IV, in therapeutic areas including respiratory, pediatrics, ophthalmology, nephrology and cardiovascular disease. Francois founded SweetSpot to bring together rigorous clinical trial biostatistics, drug pharmacology (PK/PD modeling, Bayesian methods) and AI-driven analytics — building the evidence-based indication-finding discipline the industry has been missing.

Company

SweetSpot is a global drug development technology company.

Headquarters
30 rue Bon Air
Genappe, Belgium

Competitive Edge

Fast turnaround. Proven evidence. Decision-ready insight.

No authorization required from the manufacturer, and no reliance on proprietary or contracted datasets.

Inputs — What We Use

  • Real patient-on-drug clinical data
  • Published clinical trial results
  • Public-domain biomedical information only
  • Real-time data integration
  • Fully automated analytical pipeline

Outputs — What You Get

  • 24-hour indication assessment turnaround
  • Reliable, evidence-based analytics
  • Ranked indication opportunities per asset
  • Interactive indication explorer
  • Investor-ready strategic report
Better Investment Strategy

Trusted by investors, developers and manufacturers

The average cost of drug development exceeds $800M — with significant de-risking available simply by targeting the right indication. SweetSpot aligns its model with your outcome.

Along the Value Chain

  • Investors: Select the right candidate
  • Developers: Choose the right indication
  • Manufacturers: Expand in the right market

SweetSpot Cost of Use

  • Aligned incentives — shared risk model
  • Low upfront evaluation fee
  • Success-based incentive
We succeed when the asset succeeds. Decide without a new trial — restart directly from late phase.

"Complexity is rarely solved by doing more. It's solved by doing better."

Francois Vandenhende, PhD — Founder, SweetSpot