The Free Clinical Trial Tracker That Actually Monitors Changes

Most free tools let you search trials. DataLookout watches them every day and tells you when something changes — for free, forever.

Why most trial tracking is manual

Before DataLookout, tracking clinical trial changes meant one of two things: manually checking ClinicalTrials.gov every week, or paying $10,000-50,000/year for an enterprise intelligence platform.

ClinicalTrials.gov is free and comprehensive, but it's a registry — it shows you the current state of a trial, not what changed. There's no way to set up a watchlist, get alerts, or see a history of modifications.

Enterprise platforms like Citeline, Cortellis, and Evaluate Pharma add monitoring features, but they bundle them with patent data, revenue forecasts, and analyst reports that push the price into five figures.

What DataLookout monitors for free

The free plan gives you 1 sponsor watchlist and 1 disease watchlist with full change detection. Every day, DataLookout checks ClinicalTrials.gov and detects changes to 8 tracked fields:

• Status changes — recruiting, completed, terminated, suspended
• Primary endpoint modifications — the most important signal in competitive intelligence
• Enrollment shifts — increases or decreases with percentage change
• Site count changes — trial expanding or contracting geographically
• Phase transitions — moving between Phase 1, 2, 3
• Arm count changes — new treatment arms added or removed
• Lead sponsor changes — ownership transfers
• Why stopped — early termination reasons

Who uses the free plan

• BD professionals at biotech startups with no budget for enterprise tools
• Academic researchers tracking trials in their field
• Individual investors monitoring Phase 3 readouts
• Consultants who need quick competitive intelligence for client projects
• Anyone who currently checks ClinicalTrials.gov manually