Company Profile · Healthcare IT · Santa Clara, CA

Wilco Source

The Salesforce consultancy that refused to be a generalist. One platform, one industry - healthcare and life sciences - for over a decade.

2014Founded
~440Employees
450+SF Certifications
Wilco Source team
WILCO SOURCE. The people who decided patient enrollment shouldn't live in a fax machine. Santa Clara by address, Chennai and Hyderabad by headcount.

A consultancy that does one thing, on purpose

Somewhere right now, a patient is waiting for a specialty drug. Between that patient and the medicine sits a stack of paperwork: enrollment forms, prior authorizations, financial assistance applications, safety program checks mandated by the FDA. Much of it still moves by fax. Wilco Source exists because someone has to drag that stack into software - and because the software in question is, more often than not, Salesforce.

Today the firm operates as "Wilco Source, a CitiusTech company": roughly 440 people split between Santa Clara, Chennai, and Hyderabad, holding more than 450 Salesforce certifications between them. They are a Life Sciences Cloud partner, an Agentforce Ready Partner, and a fixture on the Salesforce AppExchange. Their clients are pharmaceutical companies, medical device makers, payers, providers, specialty hubs, and labs.

What they are not is broad. Wilco Source has never been a generic IT shop. Since its founding in 2014 it has worked on exactly one platform and in exactly one industry. In consulting, where the standard pitch is "we do everything for everyone," that is almost an act of rebellion.

"Wilco Source started with a vision to change the way Salesforce is delivered to healthcare and life sciences organizations."

Company founding statement

Healthcare doesn't need more software. It needs software that complies.

Here is the tension that runs through everything Wilco Source does: healthcare is simultaneously the industry that most needs modern customer software and the industry least able to adopt it off the shelf.

A retailer can install a CRM in a quarter. A pharmaceutical company cannot, because its "customers" are patients with privacy protections, prescribers with compliance rules, and payers with their own labyrinths. Every workflow touches HIPAA. Some touch the FDA. A Risk Evaluation and Mitigation Strategy - REMS, the safety program required for certain high-risk drugs - is not a feature you toggle on. It is a regulatory regime.

Generalist Salesforce consultants would arrive at these problems, discover the regulatory swamp, and bill by the hour while learning the territory. Wilco Source's founders saw the gap: the clients didn't need Salesforce experts who could learn healthcare. They needed healthcare people who happened to be Salesforce experts.

TRANSLATION: the firm's two favorite phrases are "lead-to-cash" and "contact-to-resolution" - consultant-speak for "the money arrives" and "the patient gets an answer."

The clients didn't need Salesforce experts who could learn healthcare. They needed healthcare people who happened to be Salesforce experts.

The Wilco Source thesis, in one line

Niche down, then stay down

Kedar Relangi and Sundar Ramasamy founded Wilco Source in Santa Clara in 2014 and made it a Salesforce partner from day one. The bet was simple to state and hard to hold: specialize so narrowly that no generalist can catch up, and trust that healthcare's Salesforce spend would grow into the focus.

It did. Salesforce launched Health Cloud in 2016, then built out Life Sciences Cloud - and each platform release expanded the territory Wilco Source had already claimed. The firm grew its bench of healthcare technologists, stacked up certifications, and started productizing what it kept rebuilding for clients.

There is a small joke buried in the name, for those who like such things. "Wilco" is radio shorthand for "will comply." For a company whose entire business is regulated-industry software, the name reads less like branding and more like a job description.

Milestone Timeline

Services that turned into software

Wilco Source sells consulting - advisory, implementation, integration, managed services, staff augmentation - across the full Salesforce stack: Health Cloud, Life Sciences Cloud, Sales and Service Cloud, CPQ, Field Service, Marketing Cloud, Data Cloud, Tableau, MuleSoft. But the more interesting layer is what the consulting hardened into.

AppExchange

REMS Central

Runs FDA-mandated drug safety programs on Health Cloud through configurable rules and metadata - replacing processes that historically lived on paper.

SaaS

Wilco Docx

Intelligent document automation that accelerates patient services intake - the enrollment forms, the prior auths, the faxes.

Analytics

Patient Support Service Analytics

Measures what pharma hub programs actually do for patients, instead of guessing from call volume.

Clinical

Digital Labor for Clinical Trials

Trial recruitment, scheduling, and participant engagement workflows - aimed at the chronic problem of trials that can't find patients.

PICTURED ABOVE: four products, zero of which will trend on social media, all of which decide whether a patient's paperwork takes three days or three weeks.

The pattern is deliberate. Each accelerator started as a problem the firm solved repeatedly for clients until it made more sense to ship it as a product. That is how a services firm builds a moat: not by writing more proposals, but by encoding what it learned.

That is how a services firm builds a moat: not by writing more proposals, but by encoding what it learned.

On the accelerator strategy

The numbers behind the niche

Skeptics should ask: did the focus actually work? The evidence says yes, three ways.

First, scale. The firm grew from a two-founder startup to roughly 440 employees with an estimated $55.5 million in annual revenue - without venture funding, on services margins, in a market where most boutiques stall at fifty people.

Second, the client list shape. Wilco Source serves pharmaceutical companies, specialty hub providers, medical device manufacturers, payers, providers, and laboratories - the entire supply chain of a prescription, from molecule to member.

Third, the exit. In November 2022, CitiusTech - a healthcare technology firm with more than 8,000 professionals serving over 130 healthcare organizations - acquired Wilco Source. It was CitiusTech's third acquisition of a specialized healthcare technology firm in four years, and the logic was explicit: pair CitiusTech's healthcare engineering depth with Wilco Source's Salesforce muscle.

Wilco Source, by the numbers

Selected figures · public sources · approximate

Years on Salesforce
12
SF certifications
450+
Employees
~440
Revenue (est., $M)
$55.5M
NOTE THE RATIO: more certifications than employees. The average Wilco Source consultant is, statistically speaking, over-credentialed - which is exactly what you want near an FDA program.

"The acquisition enables CitiusTech to strengthen its patient and member-centric digital offerings by combining deep healthcare domain expertise with strong Salesforce implementation, integration, and product engineering capabilities."

CitiusTech acquisition announcement, Nov 2022

Get more from Salesforce. Specifically, in healthcare.

The stated mission is unglamorous and useful: help healthcare and life sciences organizations get more from Salesforce, so they realize results faster. No talk of disruption. No revolution. Just the steady claim that the platform clients already bought can do far more than it currently does - if someone who understands both the platform and the regulations wires it up properly.

That framing matters for what you can actually do with Wilco Source. A pharma company can stand up a patient services hub with automated intake. A device maker can run lead-to-cash, field service, and inventory on one platform. A payer can modernize member experience and care coordination. A clinical operations team can recruit and retain trial participants. And since 2025, all of them can ask about Agentforce - Salesforce's AI agent layer - with a partner already certified to deploy it in regulated settings.

FOR THE BUYER'S NOTEBOOK: engagement models range from advisory and full implementations to managed services and team augmentation. The phone number really does start with 855-WILCO.

The next decade is agents and analytics

Healthcare IT is entering its AI moment, and the same tension is replaying at higher stakes. Every health system wants AI agents handling patient interactions; none can afford an agent that mishandles protected health information or improvises around an FDA rule. The industry's most enthusiastic adopters are also its most constrained.

Which is precisely the gap Wilco Source has filled for a decade. Its recent moves all point the same direction: Agentforce readiness for AI agents in regulated workflows, the Hubbl Technologies partnership for automated org and process intelligence, and a 2026 push into Tableau Next analytics. The bet is that healthcare's next bottleneck is not implementation but insight - knowing what your sprawling Salesforce estate is actually doing before you hand pieces of it to an AI.

Return to that patient waiting on a specialty drug. The stack of paperwork between them and the medicine has not vanished. But at organizations Wilco Source has touched, it moves through automated intake instead of a fax queue, through a REMS program running on rules instead of paper, through support staff who can see the whole patient journey on one screen. The wait is shorter. The compliance is intact. Nobody outside the building notices, which is rather the point.

Wilco Source will comply. That was always the plan.

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