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Meet Qity, quality that speeds innovation up
Meet the team of Belgian software company, Qity that has officially joined our community this year. Open to collaborations with other members, Qity is ready to share its expertise. Let us introduce them!
“At A6K, we are surrounded by engineers and entrepreneurs who are building tomorrow’s technologies. It’s the ideal place to show that quality and regulatory compliance can accelerate innovation rather than slow it down.”
Qity’s mission is to make quality and regulatory compliance part of engineers’ daily work, rather than a separate task. Its applications run inside Jira and Confluence and turn what teams already do (requirements, tests, risks, documents) into compliance evidence and regulatory documentation, generated automatically.
The modules cover Document Control, Design Control, Safety Risk (ISO 14971), Product Lifecycle, Training and Quality Events (CAPA, non-conformities, deviations). They connect to tools such as Figma, Solidworks, Altium and GitHub, and rely on specialized AI agents to draft and review documents.
The traceability matrix, which links requirements, risks and tests, is a good example. What used to take hours of manual updates in Excel is now generated and kept up to date automatically, so Qity’s clients are ready for an audit at any time.
Qity also offers training (Design Control, ISO 13485, IEC 62304), migration and validation, and is currently working on Qity AIMS, an application for AI governance (ISO/IEC 42001, EU AI Act) for companies that integrate AI into their medical devices.
Some key figures
- Founded in 2021
- 15 people on the team
- 6 applications available, 3 of them already published on the Atlassian Marketplace (Design Control, Safety Risk and Quality Events)
History
Qity grew out of a simple observation, in medical device and life sciences companies, quality is still managed in dozens of Word and Excel files, disconnected from the teams’ actual work. The founders all worked in medtech companies, including Metronom Health, a medtech working on glucose monitoring, where they met. From there came the idea behind Qity, to build the quality system into the tools engineers already use, Confluence and Jira, rather than add it alongside.
The team has continued to grow since then. Pictured here are the members of its core team.
- Yve De Buysscher, CEO
- Tim Verstraete, CTO
- Dimitri Crelot, CFO
- Miguel Azevedo, COO
- Jean-François Ladry, Chief Quality & Regulatory Officer
Alongside them, a team of developers, testers and Atlassian administrators contributes to the development and delivery of Qity's solutions.
Today, Qity works with clients in Belgium and internationally, including Slow Surg, Mantyx, Agricells, Trince, FBGS (Germany), sampl.id, Robovision, NHa - Normandy Hadrontherapy (France) and Veltist – Wyss Zurich (Switzerland). Its solutions address a range of regulatory and quality standards, including ISO 13485, ISO 9001, ISO 14971, IEC 62304, ISO/IEC 27001, EU MDR/IVDR, FDA 21 CFR Parts 11 and 820, and GDPR.
Looking ahead, Qity plans to publish its remaining applications on the Atlassian Marketplace, launch Qity AIMS, obtain its own ISO 13485 and ISO/IEC 27001 certifications in 2027, and continue expanding internationally.
Fun fact?
To explain the FDA’s regulatory pathways in a playful way, Qity created CLEARED!, a card game you can discover at qity.cat. It also offers Compliance Radar (qity.app), a free tool that helps classify a medical device and identify the rules that apply. And on top of that, Qity runs its own quality system in iQMS, its own tool, with the team as the first user of its product.
