# THREAD

> THREAD is a Cary, North Carolina clinical-research technology company whose one platform lets biopharma sponsors and CROs run studies without forcing patients into a clinic. It bundles eConsent, eCOA/ePRO, eSource, sensors, telehealth virtual visits, patient recruitment and AI-driven patient-voice analysis into a single, configurable system used across roughly 60 countries. The pitch is a number: one platform, five times more inclusive, 30% more efficient - what the company calls its 1/5/30 mission.

- **Founded:** 2016
- **Headquarters:** Cary, North Carolina, United States
- **Founders:** John Reites (Chief Executive Officer, Co-Founder)
- **Team size:** ~130 employees
- **Products:** THREAD One Decentralized Platform, Telehealth Virtual Visits, Sensors & Wearables Integration, inVibe Patient & HCP Listening, CureClick Recruitment Network
- **Notable:** Grew platform reach to roughly 60 countries and 100,000+ trial participants., Supported 100+ decentralized clinical studies., Co-authored research showing decentralized trials proved more resilient than traditional site-based trials during the COVID-19 pandemic.

## Products & services

- **THREAD One Decentralized Platform** — A single, configurable platform bundling around 12 clinical-trial technologies - eConsent, eCOA/ePRO, eSource, EDC-style data capture, reminders and dashboards - for hybrid and fully decentralized studies.
- **Telehealth Virtual Visits** — Built-in video visits connecting participants, caregivers and remote nurses so study assessments can happen from home.
- **Sensors & Wearables Integration** — Continuous, multimodal data capture from connected devices and wearables, stored alongside visit and survey data.
- **inVibe Patient & HCP Listening** — Voice-powered research: records how patients and clinicians actually talk about a disease, then applies NLP, linguist review and GPT-powered analysis to inform protocol design, recruitment and retention.
- **CureClick Recruitment Network** — A crowdsourcing community of thousands of patient ambassadors and advocates across 75+ disease states, used to drive trial awareness and enrollment.
- **Modus Outcomes (COA / PCOR science)** — Clinical outcome assessment and patient-centered outcomes research consulting - the endpoint and measurement science behind the technology.

## Achievements

- Grew platform reach to roughly 60 countries and 100,000+ trial participants.
- Supported 100+ decentralized clinical studies.
- Co-authored research showing decentralized trials proved more resilient than traditional site-based trials during the COVID-19 pandemic.
- Completed four acquisitions (Modus Outcomes, inVibe, CureClick and earlier assets) to assemble an end-to-end patient-journey platform.
- Subject of a Harvard Business School case study on decentralized clinical trials.
- Introduced GPT-powered analysis into its inVibe patient-voice capability.

## Latest updates

- **2022-04** — Acquired CureClick, adding a crowdsourced patient-ambassador network to connect trial awareness with enrollment.
- **2022-01** — Acquired inVibe, integrating voice-of-the-participant capture and NLP into the platform.
- **2021-11** — Acquired Modus Outcomes, adding clinical outcome assessment and patient-centered outcomes research expertise.
- **2023-01** — Rolled out GPT-powered features in inVibe and expanded AI automation with AWS across the platform.

## Links

- Website: https://threadresearch.com
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/threadresearch
- Twitter/X: https://twitter.com/thread
- Facebook: https://facebook.com/TREADResearch/

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Last updated: 2026-08-21