Mindsence

Engineering consultancy · Medical devices

From concept to market for your medical devices.

Mindsence supports medical device manufacturers and medtech start-ups across the full product lifecycle: design engineering, European regulatory compliance, industrial strategy and the integration of artificial intelligence.

  • Assignments across France and Europe
  • Fixed-price or time-and-materials
  • Italian · French · English · Spanish
Partners & clients

Services

Four areas of expertise

One consistent goal: turning a technical or regulatory constraint into a clear, documented decision that holds up in front of a notified body.

Engineering consultancy

Designing, developing and industrialising a medical device, from concept through to production transfer.

  • Design and development under design control
  • Verification & validation, test planning
  • ISO 14971 risk management
  • Industrialisation and production transfer
  • Material and process selection

Regulatory compliance

Building and defending a technical file that complies with the European medical device regulation.

  • MDR 2017/745 technical documentation
  • ISO 13485 implementation and maintenance
  • Classification, CE marking, intended purpose
  • Audit and notified body preparation
  • Post-market surveillance (PMS, PMCF)

Strategy

Informing the product, industrial and regulatory decisions that commit the company for years to come.

  • Product roadmap and project portfolio
  • European market access strategy
  • Structuring the R&D function
  • Technical and regulatory due diligence
  • Make-or-buy decisions, supplier selection

AI implementation

Moving artificial intelligence from experiment to industrial use, with no regulatory blind spots.

  • Use-case framing and feasibility studies
  • Prototyping through to production rollout
  • Automation of quality and documentation processes
  • AI embedded in a device: IEC 62304, clinical data
  • Monitoring the regulatory framework for AI and its interplay with the MDR

Approach

A three-step method

Every assignment starts with a short, free scoping call. You know from the outset what will be delivered, when, and at what cost.

Scoping

A one-hour conversation to qualify the need and identify technical and regulatory risks, followed by a written proposal covering scope, deliverables and schedule.

Delivery

Working embedded in your teams or independently, with regular progress reviews. Deliverables are designed to slot straight into your document management system.

Handover

Nothing stays in my head: documentation, team training and method transfer, so that you are fully autonomous once the assignment ends.

About

The person behind Mindsence

Riccardo Donati, founder of Mindsence

Riccardo Donati

Founder & consultant

A biomedical engineer trained at the University of Bologna, I have spent seven years in biomedical engineering, from research through to the medical device industry. I started in signal processing — at Oregon Health & Science University on Parkinson's disease, then at the University of Bologna, resulting in two scientific publications.

On the industry side, at Angiodroid I rolled out a CO₂ injector with more than fifty practitioners, across twenty-five hospitals in five countries — qualifying the need, designing the content, implementation and follow-up. Then, as an R&D engineer at Cefla France, I worked on medical imaging: weighing a product's features against technical constraints, clinical needs and deadlines, working directly with the clinical, project and sales teams.

I founded Mindsence in 2025 to put that experience at the service of medical device manufacturers. That dual background — research and field, product and user — is what lets me hold both ends of a project: the technical decision, and the file that will have to justify it.

7 years
of biomedical engineering experience
5 countries
25 hospitals supported
4 languages
Italian, French, English, Spanish

Clients

Selected assignments

  • Project leadership
  • Integration
  • Documentation

Technical integration following an acquisition

Leading a technical and documentation integration programme following an acquisition: scoping, planning, coordination of internal teams and external providers, with direct reporting to management.

  • Pharmacovigilance
  • Artificial intelligence
  • Documentation

AI applied to pharmacovigilance and regulatory affairs

A study on the use of artificial intelligence for scientific literature surveillance in pharmacovigilance: research, assessment of existing solutions and their limitations, delivered as a presentation. Production, with the support of AI, of Environmental Risk Assessment (ERA) documentation compliant with EMA guidelines.

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Contact

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