Solution Spotlight: Acumetis Model Builder

Acumetis Model Builder is a web-based platform that generates complete, formula-linked Excel cost-effectiveness and budget impact models in minutes. Through a guided interface, users define the decision problem, model structure, costs, and analyses before downloading a fully editable model aligned with international HTA guidance and payer expectations. By automating model construction, Model Builder enables teams to focus more time on model optimisation, interpretation, evidence generation, scenario evaluation, and strategic decision-making, rather than rebuilding model architecture.

What problem or status quo deficiency are you solving?

Health economic models are essential for demonstrating value to payers and HTA bodies, yet, traditional model development is often slow, manual, and resource intensive. Analysts can spend several weeks building model structures, creating formulas, linking calculations, and validating outputs before meaningful evidence and model optimisation discussions begin to maximise the value of your product. This approach can introduce inconsistency across models and increase exposure to manual calculation errors. As payer and HTA requirements continue to evolve, organisations need a faster, more consistent way to develop cost-effectiveness and budget impact models while maintaining transparency, accuracy, and alignment with international HTA guidance. 

What has made this problem challenging to address in the past?

Developing health economic models requires teams to define the decision problem, comparators, perspective, model structure, time horizon, types of costs, and uncertainty analyses before creating a fully functioning model. Traditionally, this has involved weeks of analyst build time spent constructing manual model mechanics, creating formulas, linking calculations, and reviewing outputs. Model design and implementation can also vary across analysts and projects, creating inconsistencies and increasing exposure to manual error. In many cases, teams are reluctant to test model structures until sufficient evidence is available, delaying the development and review process. 

What new innovations does your solution bring to bear on these challenges?

Acumetis Model Builder transforms health economic model development by automating the generation of complete, formula-linked Excel models through a guided online interface. Rather than manually building model architecture, users define the key characteristics of their decision problem and inputs to capture, and the platform generates either a cost-effectiveness or budget impact model aligned with international HTA guidance. Key innovations include automated model construction, support for multiple model structures, built-in sensitivity analyses, placeholder data functionality, and a standardised design framework that improves consistency across projects, teams, and markets.

How does your solution work?

Users answer a structured set of questions about your decision problem, including the disease area, intervention, comparators, perspective, and choose model structure, health states, costs, and analytical requirements. The platform then automatically assembles the corresponding worksheets, formulas, calculations, and outputs into a fully editable Excel model. No modelling code, macros, or template wrangling is required. Teams can either upload their own data through a spreadsheet-style editor or generate a working model using placeholder data before evidence is finalised. The result is a transparent, payer-ready model that can be reviewed, adapted, and shared immediately.

What makes your solution stand out in the market?

Acumetis Model Builder combines the speed of automated model generation with the transparency and flexibility expected by payers, HTA bodies, and modelling teams. Unlike many tools that rely on proprietary platforms or restricted outputs, Model Builder produces fully editable Excel models with no hidden code or locked cells. It supports both cost-effectiveness and budget impact modelling from a single interface while applying a consistent, HTA guidance-aligned design standard. This enables organisations to develop high-quality models more efficiently while maintaining transparency, credibility, and adaptability across global and local market access activities.

What concrete outcomes and KPI benefits does your solution deliver?

Acumetis Model Builder reduces model development timelines from several weeks of build time to a complete, formula-linked Excel model generated in under five minutes. By automating calculations and model assembly, it reduces exposure to manual formula and linking errors while improving consistency across projects through a standardised design approach. The platform enables teams to evaluate model structures earlier, accelerate evidence generation activities, begin payer and HTA discussions sooner, and redirect analyst time from model construction to evidence assessment, assumptions testing, scenario analysis, and strategic interpretation. The result is faster model availability, improved efficiency, greater consistency, reduced manual effort, and increased confidence in model outputs.

How does your solution improve the experience for the end user?

Acumetis Model Builder simplifies a process that has traditionally required significant technical expertise and manual effort. Through an intuitive, guided interface, users can move from decision problem to a completed model without building formulas, linking calculations, or managing complex templates. Models can be generated using placeholder data or populated with evidence as it becomes available, allowing teams to review and refine approaches earlier in the development process. The resulting Excel files are fully editable, transparent, and easy to understand, making collaboration, review, adaptation, and knowledge transfer simpler across global, regional, and local teams and external stakeholders.

What do your customers have to say about this solution?

A common question from customers is: What do you need to get started with Acumetis Model Builder? 

• A current web browser to use the platform. 
• Microsoft Excel 2010 or later to open and run the exported model. 
• No installation, licences, or IT set-up beyond that.

About Acumetis

Acumetis is a global expert commercialisation partner purposefully built to help life sciences companies win in the age of connectivity. With an integrated model spanning the full asset lifecycle, deep functional and therapeutic-area expertise, and rigorous, outcome-driven thinking, Acumetis reframes complex problems and shapes solutions that are both imaginative and achievable. With more than 350 experts globally and experience across 50+ geographic markets, Acumetis helps clients unlock value, accelerate performance and deliver better outcomes for patients.