ABOUT PRELUDE

Built for Animal Health, By People Who Take It Personally

For two decades, Prelude has been the platform behind animal health research, built alongside the researchers who run it. Every study, every species, one platform. From lab to label.

The Belief

Animal Health Deserves Infrastructure Built for Animal Health

Every breakthrough in animal medicine, every feeding trial that improves livestock productivity, every safety study that gets a new therapy to market faster, matters. That belief is baked into everything Prelude builds. We handle the technology so your team can focus on the science, and the animals.

Our Story

Prelude Didn't Start With a Product. It Started With a Problem.

The animal health community was running complex, cross-species studies on tools built for human trials, or on spreadsheets and paper. Study teams spent their time managing workarounds instead of managing science. So Prelude set out to build something different: a platform actually made for animal studies. The researchers, data managers, and study directors at animal health's leading organizations weren't just our first clients, they were our co-architects. They showed us what was broken and what they needed to move faster and file with confidence. We listened, built, and kept listening. That instinct still defines us.

TWO DECADES IN

How We Got Here

2003

Founded

A team of former Lockheed Martin engineers built Prelude and brought one of the first eSource and EDC solutions to market.

2006

The platform expands

Randomization, inventory management, invoicing, and document storage, built to handle complex study design.

2017

Self-service builds

A drag-and-drop, no-code build interface put study setup in researchers' hands.

2021

Investment in the future

An investment group backed Prelude's foundation and helped scale the platform.

2024

Focus sharpens

After two decades of word-of-mouth growth, Prelude committed to the market that needed it most, animal health.

Today

Global and hands-on

Thousands of studies across 25+ countries, and trusted by 8 of the 10 largest names in animal health.

BUILT FROM THE ANIMAL, FOR ANIMAL HEALTH

We Handle the Tech. You Handle the Science.

Much of Prelude was built in concert with our clients, which is why so many feel it was made for them, because it was. Our team knows animal health, supports every build and pivot, and treats your outcomes as ours. We call our clients partners for a reason.