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Ideagen tracks compliance with standards. Seal runs the work the standards are about.

Seal, the GxP execution system, is your eBR, your QMS and more. Neil, your AI agent, does the paperwork across your systems. You sign. Skye Biologics cut non-⁠conformances by 40%. Start with one process beside Ideagen Quality Management.

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Where Ideagen Quality Management falls short.

From Ideagen’s own listing and pricing on the UK government’s G-Cloud.

  • Implementation
    £1,000 a day
    Validation pack
    £4,000
    Or validation as a service
    £12,000
    Seal, a first process
    With its validation pack

    Validation sold separately.

    Ideagen’s G-Cloud pricing for its standard tier charges implementation by the day and validation on top. Seal prepares the first working process and its validation pack to evaluate within 48 hours, once the scope is agreed and the inputs received.

    Ideagen, G-Cloud 15 pricing, January 2026
  • Priced modules
    Documents, audit, CAPA
    And
    Suppliers, assets, training
    Laboratory, batch records
    Not among them

    A quality system only.

    The modules Ideagen prices on G-Cloud are documents, audit, CAPA, customers, suppliers, assets, and people and training. In Seal, the laboratory, batch records and quality share one set of records.

    Ideagen, G-Cloud 15 pricing, January 2026
  • Configuration
    Windows Admin Console
    An upgrade
    A new client to roll out
    Seal
    In the browser

    Configured in a Windows console.

    Ideagen’s G-Cloud listing says administrators need the Windows-based Admin Console for configuration, and customers roll out a new client during an upgrade. In Seal, configuration is in the browser.

    Ideagen, G-Cloud 15 listing
  • Its API
    SOAP
    Integrations
    Built and maintained by you
    Updates
    A limited set of records
    Seal
    Connectors, REST API, Scripts

    Integration is yours to build.

    Ideagen’s API toolkit uses SOAP, customers build and maintain their own integrations, and the API updates only a limited set of records. Seal connects through connectors, a REST API and Scripts.

    Ideagen, G-Cloud 15 listing

See it in Seal.

Real Seal screens with fictional test data: one late transfer, from the batch record to the fix, then Neil’s overnight release review.

  1. 1

    Each value at the step it belongs to.

    Batch B-041’s readings are recorded as the work happens, with its sample and its deviation linked to the record.

    Batch record B-041, post-mix hold and transfer, in Seal: the instruction to transfer within 45 minutes of completing the mix, process readings at 10:12, 10:42 and 11:04 with temperature and pH, and the linked lab sample IPC-041 and investigation DEV-018.
    1. The step’s limitTransfer within 45 minutes of completing the mix.
    2. Recorded as it happensMix complete at 10:12, transfer at 11:04: 52 minutes.
    3. The deviation, linkedDEV-018 sits on the batch record it concerns.
  2. 2

    The deviation starts with its evidence.

    DEV-018 has the batch, its readings and the sample linked, so the investigation starts from the facts.

    Deviation DEV-018, extended post-mix hold, in Seal: the affected batch B-041, the transfer 52 minutes after mixing against a permitted 45, and a table of evidence from the process readings, temperature readings and sample IPC-041.
    1. The batchB-041, the batch the deviation concerns.
    2. What happened52 minutes, against a permitted 45.
    3. The evidenceReadings and the sample, from the same records.
  3. 3

    The fix is a change to the workflow.

    CC-019 makes the record calculate the hold and route anything over 45 minutes. It is verified before release, and the next batch runs the new version.

    Change CC-019, elapsed-time check, in Seal: DEV-018 as the reason, the affected procedure MBR-014, a table of current and proposed workflow behaviour, a verification plan at 44, 45 and 46 minutes and a missing start time, and a release review for authorised people.
    1. From the deviationDEV-018 is the reason for the change.
    2. The workflow itselfThe hold is calculated from both timestamps, and anything over the limit is routed for assessment.
    3. Verified before releaseAt 44, 45 and 46 minutes, and with a start time missing.
  4. 4

    Neil checks every lot. People decide.

    Overnight, Neil checked each lot against its release plan and said what its record leaves out.

    The release board in Seal: 111 lots in release across three sites, $123M waiting, 86 with nothing open, and a table of the lots with findings, each with Neil’s summary, its value and a predicted certification date.
    1. The morning, in two lines111 lots and $123M waiting. 86 need only a decision.
    2. Neil’s summary of each lotWhat is open, and where Neil found it.
    3. A predicted certification dateFrom how long this site’s lots have taken.

What Seal’s customers measured.

Each figure links to the customer’s story.

QualityAcclinate and Skye Biologics

−50%
quality cycle times at Acclinate, from a procedure change to everyone trained.Acclinate
−40%
non-conformances at Skye Biologics, with training checked before execution.Skye Biologics

RecordsMiAlgae and Bioventix

−75%
documentation time at MiAlgae, from the lab to commercial production.MiAlgae
−80%
document admin time at Bioventix, after two decades on paper.Bioventix

Ideagen Quality Management and Seal, side by side.

Every source is listed under References.

Ideagen Quality ManagementSeal
What it isQMS for standards compliance, once Q-Pulse¹²The GxP execution system, with QMS built in
Built forHealthcare, pharma, manufacturing¹Devices, diagnostics, drugs, biologics
Data modelModules for documents, audits, CAPA, suppliers, training³Primitives your team composes: record types, their relationships, steps and checks
AIMazlan: risk insights, faster investigations¹Neil, Seal’s AI agent, prepares changes to the process; your team approves them
ConfigurationWindows-based Admin Console⁴Browser-based, one platform
UpgradesA new client to roll out, per its listing⁴Browser-based; no client to roll out for users
Laboratory and plantNot on its G-Cloud module list³LIMS, ELN and batch records built in
Audit evidenceDigital checklists, mobile capture⁵Linked records, at the exact version
A findingTriggers an integrated CAPA⁵Assessment, change and verification
EffectivenessVerified with SPC⁶Measured on the records that follow
IntegrationsAPI toolkit; you build integrations⁴Connectors, REST API and Scripts
Getting started“30 days to go live”, its claim¹A 48-hour evaluation of one process, once the scope is agreed and the inputs received

Summary

The story
Ideagen Quality Management is good for standards compliance. It began as Q-Pulse, the first product of Gael, a Scottish company,⁷ as a Windows package for ISO 9000 records, with modules for audits, documents, nonconformance, CAPA, suppliers, training and equipment.² Today’s Professional edition is priced as nearly the same set of modules,³ configured by designated administrators in a Windows admin console,⁴ with implementation charged by the day.³ Ideagen’s quality page says “30 days to go live” and that its AI, Mazlan, “configures itself through natural conversation”.¹ Its customers have included airlines as well as life sciences and health.⁷⁸ If you need records kept to a standard, it can work well. Most teams need the quality system to change what happens next in the work.

1What Ideagen Quality Management offers.

Ideagen sells it as a quality management system for standards compliance: document control, CAPA, audits, inspection, training and competency, and supplier quality in one system, with ISO 9001, ISO 13485 and other standards built into its workflows.¹ Auditors work through digital checklists, and a documented finding triggers a CAPA whose effectiveness is verified through statistical process control.⁵⁶ Its AI, Mazlan, launched in 2025, turns “Three days of investigation” into “three hours”, Ideagen says, “Human-approved, every time”.¹⁹

2Neil does the paperwork across Q-Pulse. You sign.

You can keep Ideagen. Seal’s Q-Pulse connection reads selected data through your approved JSON API or gateway and is read-only. The captured responses are shared with chosen Seal groups, so people can ask Neil, your AI agent, to summarise a nonconformance and its actions and name the evidence still missing. Neil cites each record, your team decides, and Neil is not used in GMP execution. SOAP, Windows authentication and private installations need an approved gateway from your IT team.

3Start beside Ideagen.

  1. Choose a finding that reaches the work, such as batch review evidence that is hard to retrieve or a gap that keeps coming back.
  2. Bring the audit request, a small defined evidence population, the relevant procedures and the records you can already access. Start with sample material, or arrange an NDA first.
  3. Neil configures the request workflow from your procedure, and your quality team checks it against how the audit should run. Once the scope is agreed and the inputs received, Seal prepares the first working process and its validation pack to evaluate within 48 hours. Production timing then depends on scope, interfaces, migration and your release requirements.
  4. Share the Q-Pulse responses the process needs through the connection, and prove selected versions, a missing source and a reviewed replacement before extending the workflow.
  5. As more processes move, agree which records move and which stay retrievable in Ideagen, and reconcile representative records before you rely on the new workflow. Retention obligations continue for what stays.

References

  1. 1Quality management system for standards compliance, Ideagen. https://www.ideagen.com/solutions/quality/quality-management (read 5 November 2026)
  2. 2Quality Software Reviews: Q-Pulse 3.16, Jeff Kempton, Quality Digest, November 1998. https://www.qualitydigest.com/static/magazine/nov98/html/qsoft.html (read 5 November 2026)
  3. 3Ideagen Quality Management Professional Pricing Document, G-Cloud 15, Ideagen Technology Limited, Digital Marketplace. https://assets.applytosupply.digitalmarketplace.service.gov.uk/g-cloud-15/documents/704432/307017188120620-pricing-document-2026-01-26-1145.pdf (read 5 November 2026)
  4. 4Ideagen Quality Management Professional (formerly Q-Pulse), G-Cloud 15 service listing by Ideagen Technology Limited, Digital Marketplace. https://www.applytosupply.digitalmarketplace.service.gov.uk/g-cloud/services/307017188120620 (read 5 November 2026)
  5. 5Audit management solution for internal audit excellence, Ideagen. https://www.ideagen.com/solutions/quality/quality-management/audit-management-solution (read 5 November 2026)
  6. 6CAPA management for corrective action control, Ideagen. https://www.ideagen.com/solutions/quality/quality-management/capa-management (read 5 November 2026)
  7. 7Tougher regulations work in Gael's favour, Business Insider (insider.co.uk), 12 December 2008. https://www.insider.co.uk/news/tougher-regulations-work-gaels-favour-9889745 (read 5 November 2026)
  8. 8Software company acquired in £18m deal, Business Insider (insider.co.uk), 19 December 2014. https://www.insider.co.uk/news/software-company-acquired-18m-deal-9891972 (read 5 November 2026)
  9. 9With 40% of agentic AI projects predicted to fail, Ideagen via Medianet, December 2025. https://newshub.medianet.com.au/2025/12/with-40-of-agentic-ai-projects-predicted-to-fail-leading-software-developer-says-compliance-is-the-one-place-where-agentic-ai-will-thrive/131451 (read 5 November 2026)

AQuestions and answers

Is Seal better than Ideagen Quality Management (Q-Pulse)?

Yes. Ideagen Quality Management is good for standards compliance. It began as Q-Pulse, the first product of Gael, a Scottish company, as a Windows package for ISO 9000 records, with modules for audits, documents, nonconformance, CAPA, suppliers, training and equipment. Today’s Professional edition is priced as nearly the same set of modules, configured by designated administrators in a Windows admin console, with implementation charged by the day. Ideagen’s quality page says “30 days to go live” and that its AI, Mazlan, “configures itself through natural conversation”. Its customers have included airlines as well as life sciences and health. If you need records kept to a standard, it can work well. Most teams need the quality system to change what happens next in the work. Seal has no fixed model of one kind of work. It is built from primitives: record types, the relationships between them, and the steps and checks that use them, which your own team composes into your process, with Neil able to prepare each change for approval. So one platform runs process development, the laboratory, manufacturing, batch release and the quality system, and each change becomes a new version, released once its selected tests pass, while earlier runs keep theirs. Moving from paper, Skye Biologics cut non-conformances by 40%, with training checked before execution.

Is Q-Pulse now Ideagen Quality Management?

Yes. Ideagen says Q-Pulse was the name of one of its quality management products and that it is now part of Ideagen Quality Management. The UK G-Cloud listing names the edition Ideagen Quality Management Professional (formerly Q-Pulse).

Do we have to replace Q-Pulse?

No. Seal’s Q-Pulse connection reads selected JSON responses through your approved API or gateway and shares the captures with chosen Seal groups, so Neil can answer questions about findings, actions and missing evidence while you start one process in Seal.

What does Ideagen Quality Management cover?

The modules Ideagen prices on G-Cloud are documents, audit, CAPA, customers, suppliers, assets, and people and training, with occurrences and incidents on its higher tier; laboratory and batch records are not among them. Seal runs a complete QMS on the platform that runs the laboratory and manufacturing.

How does Ideagen’s AI compare with Neil?

Ideagen says its AI, Mazlan, shows where risk is forming, shortens investigations and is human-approved. Neil prepares changes to the process itself, with their tests, for your approval, and each change is released as a new version. Neil is not used in GMP execution.

How long does it take to start with Seal?

Once the scope is agreed and the inputs received, Seal prepares a first working process and its validation pack to evaluate within 48 hours, configured from one of your procedures. Production timing then depends on scope, interfaces, migration and your release requirements.

Start beside Ideagen Quality Management.

Keep Ideagen. Seal’s Q-Pulse connection reads selected records through your approved API or gateway, so Neil can work from them while you start with one audit or one recurring finding, and nothing has to move on day one.

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