The 2026 CDISC AI Innovation Challenge winners present today in Denver. None published code — except one adjacent R package. We read synadam's source and compare it to our own synthetic ADaM pipeline.
ARD turns tables from pixels into data — machine-reviewable, traceable, reusable. How the cards standard works, how gtsummary speaks it natively, and why reviewers will eventually ask for it.
The series compressed into one argument: standards absorbing tooling, tooling absorbing validation, validation absorbing AI — where the field goes, and the book this series becomes.