How Meta Reality Labs Accelerates Product Innovation with AI

Meta Reality Labs, Meta’s hardware and AI division, partnered with Ketryx to build a lifecycle intelligence system to support compliance and quality management system from the ground up as it entered the regulated medical space. The team needed a way to meet FDA and international compliance standards without changing how their world-class engineering and AI teams work.

Impact

Reduced review cycles from weeks to minutes

AI-assisted reviews reduce review and approval cycles.

Sustained Engineering Velocity

Continued use of Meta’s development practices and tools.

Automated Documentation

Continuous traceability and automated checks

Industry

MedTech

Device Type

Biosensing Wearable + SaMD

Tech Stack

Jira, GitHub, internal engineering tools

Challenge: Balancing Speed with Regulatory Rigor

For Meta Reality Labs, one of the world’s most advanced engineering and AI organizations, slowing down was not an option. As the team transitioned into regulated functionality, the challenge was to introduce formal quality and compliance controls without compromising the speed and sophistication of their existing development practices.

Key challenges included:

• Preserving engineering velocity with regulatory compliance: Introducing design controls without disrupting rapid iteration or developer flow.
• Eliminating manual documentation overhead: Reducing time spent on low-value, repetitive compliance tasks.
• Achieving real-time traceability: Knowing—at any moment—whether a product is ready to ship, without relying on manual spot checks or late-stage audits.

Solution: A Unified, Intelligent Path to Compliance

Ketryx provided Reality Labs with a unified, AI-native compliance platform that embedded quality and regulatory controls directly into existing engineering workflows, eliminating the need for teams to adopt parallel systems or processes.

Key capabilities included:

• Automated Evidence Generation: Compliance artifacts populate automatically from engineering work, minimizing documentation burden.
• Embedded Compliance and Control: Quality, traceability, and approvals are integrated directly into how engineers already work.
• Real-Time Traceability: Continuous linking of requirements, risks, tests, and designs across tools and teams.
• Safety-Critical Prioritization: Intelligent filtering surfaces the highest-risk gaps and decisions.
• AI-Assisted Reviews: Native AI agents perform targeted DHF and QMS reviews, reducing manual review cycles.

Business Outcomes: Faster, Safer Innovation at Scale

By implementing Ketryx, Meta Reality Labs established a compliance foundation that scales with its products, teams, and ambitions.

• Faster Compliance Reviews: AI-assisted reviews reduce compliance checks from weeks to minutes.
• Increased Confidence: Continuous traceability and automated checks support ongoing regulatory readiness. ‍
• CI/CD grade Engineering Velocity: Teams remain focused on building safe, high-quality products without slowing innovation.

“Ketryx AI is the most scalable approach we’ve used for regulated product development. It lets our teams make frequent, safe changes while staying continuously audit-ready, without relying on linear headcount growth or stopping teams for compliance exercises.”

Lucas Fernandez

Director of Medical Devices