An H1 alternative for the sales motion.
H1 is a global source of truth on healthcare professionals — publications, trials, congress activity, and claims across markets — built for medical affairs, clinical, and commercial teams at life-sciences enterprises. Oystercatcher answers a narrower question: which US providers should your reps call next, and why — explained, cited, and self-serve.
Global scientific-activity data
HCP and KOL profiles built on publications, clinical trials, congress activity, and claims spanning the US and international markets — geographic and scientific breadth a US public-data platform does not attempt.
Medical affairs and KOL workflows
KOL identification, advisory-board and speaker selection, and engagement recommendations — a standard motion for medical affairs teams at life-sciences enterprises.
An enterprise life-sciences suite
Products spanning medical affairs (HCP Universe), clinical trial and site selection (Trial Landscape), and commercial prescriber targeting (Prescriber Universe), with conversational AI on top — adopted by major pharma organizations.
Say the profile, get the list
Describe your target the way you would brief a rep — "high-volume knee-replacement surgeons in owner-operated practices" — and get back a ranked, scored list in seconds. No query builders, no analyst queue.
Scores that explain themselves
A 0–100 composite across fit, readiness, and reachability — with the explanation attached, tuned by your recorded outcomes.
Cited, agentic research per provider
On-demand dossiers — publications, trials, news, industry relationships — with every claim cited, generated in minutes for any provider in the pipeline.
Self-serve, on auditable public data
Pharma, devices, diagnostics, and healthcare SaaS teams all target providers here, on US public datasets (NPI, CMS, Open Payments, state boards) with per-field provenance, published pricing, and a free trial — no quote cycle to see the product.
Works inside your AI assistant
A full MCP connector — included on every paid plan and the free trial — lets Claude, ChatGPT, Cursor, or any MCP client run the whole workflow: plain-English search, campaign scoring, cited research, exports. Per-user OAuth consent, org-level admin controls, and a complete audit log. See the connector page.
You are a medical affairs, clinical, or enterprise commercial organization that needs global KOL and scientific-activity intelligence — publications, trials, congresses, and claims across markets — with workflows for advisory boards, site selection, and KOL engagement.
You are a provider-facing sales team that wants to describe its ideal US provider in plain English and get an explained, scored, researched call queue — on data whose provenance you can audit, at published pricing with a free trial.
H1 does not publish pricing; platform evaluations start with a demo and contracts are custom-quoted, with no publicly reported range available to cite. Verify current pricing directly with the vendor. Oystercatcher pricing is published on our pricing page.
Two workflows, two owners.
Selling to physicians divides into two jobs that share almost nothing, and tools in this category tend to serve one or the other. Knowing which one you are buying for is the fastest way to evaluate any option on this page — including ours.
Quarterly — campaign launch, territory reset
Daily — before each call or visit
The order matters: A sets the ceiling on B. Research on the wrong physician is careful work spent in the wrong place, so a tool that only prepares conversations inherits whatever list it is given. Oystercatcher is built for both — see how the four systems divide.
H1 alternatives, honestly.
If you are evaluating H1 alternatives, the honest first question is which job you are hiring for: global KOL and scientific-activity intelligence for medical affairs, or a scored, explained call queue for a US provider-facing sales team. The commonly evaluated alternatives:
Vendor descriptions are our good-faith reading of public positioning, not evaluations — verify capabilities and pricing with each vendor.
Switching questions.
Is Oystercatcher an H1 alternative?
For US provider targeting and pre-call research on a sales team, yes. H1 is a global source of truth on healthcare professionals — publications, trials, congress activity, and claims across markets — with its center of gravity in medical affairs and KOL workflows at life-sciences enterprises. Oystercatcher is provider intelligence for any team selling to US healthcare providers: natural-language targeting, explainable 0–100 scoring, and cited research, self-serve with published pricing. For global KOL identification, H1 is the stronger fit; for a rep call queue, that is what Oystercatcher is built for.
Does Oystercatcher have global HCP data like H1?
No — the coverage is deliberately US: NPI, CMS procedure and prescribing data, Open Payments, and state boards, with per-field provenance your compliance team can audit. Oystercatcher does surface publications, trials, and news for individual providers, but as cited on-demand research dossiers rather than a global scientific-activity database.
Can we evaluate Oystercatcher without booking a demo?
Yes — that is a deliberate difference in motion. H1 platform evaluations run through a demo and a custom quote; Oystercatcher signup is self-serve with a 14-day free trial, no card required, and pricing is published rather than quote-only. A rep can build a scored, researched target list the same day.
Let the agents
do the research.
Your team does
what it does best.
Want proof first? Read an example dossier — sample data, real mechanics.