The Lumara Series
A Genflare-produced Podcast Series.
Series Title: The Lumara Series: A Competitive Intelligence Podcast for Market Access and Brand Leaders in Specialty Pharma
Series Overview:
The Lumara Series is an 8-episode, TA-specific competitive intelligence podcast produced by Genflare using commercially available GenAI tooling and systems to both generate all of the underlying content and sciences as well as the 2-speaker (podcast format) audio files that make up each of the episodes in the series. The series follows the hypothetical launch journey of Lumara, a fictional monoclonal antibody targeting Severe Asthma with dual IL-5 and IL-13 inhibition.
The podcast is designed for VP- and Director-level professionals in Market Access, Brand Strategy, HEOR, and Commercial Operations roles.
Two-fold Purpose:
1) To provide insight-rich, strategic commentary on competitive dynamics in specialty pharma — using a fictional case study to surface real-world challenges, solutions, and innovations across market access and commercialization domains. 2) To demonstrate how current, commercially available GenAI technology (ChatGPT, Eleven Labs, and Google's NotebookLM) can be leveraged to create realistic, credible, and compelling 2-speaker audio overviews for specialized, high-impact training and communication campaigns for Pharma. Audio-based, podcast-style learning assets can be especially convenient and effective in scaling learning campaigns across field organizations.
Listeners of this series will quickly see and understand how this technology can transform their own learning programs, creating a new competitive advantage in the market.
Fictional Context:
Lumara is 12 months from launch. It enters a crowded space with entrenched biologics (Dupixent, Fasenra, Nucala, Tezspire). The series follows the internal strategic discussions and market landscape assessments that inform Lumara’s pre-launch planning.
Target Audience:
- VPs and Directors of Market Access, Brand Marketing, and Commercial Strategy
- Field reimbursement and patient services leaders
- HEOR, payer strategy, and launch planning teams
Episode Map:
1. Meet Lumara — Establishes Lumara’s fictional profile and frames the severe asthma competitive landscape
2. The Coverage Chessboard — Explores payer contracting, step edits, and rebating strategies
3. Patient Support Showdown — Deep dive into HUB performance, co-pay design, and onboarding friction
4. Message Battles — Analyzes what current brands are telling payers and how they frame economic value
5. Scaling the Access Wall — Explores how real-world evidence is used to win or maintain formulary position
6. The Unknown Unknowns — Benchmarks how much CI competitors are doing and how they’re doing it
7. Lessons from Elsewhere — Looks at access strategies from other TAs (oncology, migraine, rare disease) that could apply to Severe Asthma
8. Launching Lumara — Synthesizes the strategic arc and imagines what successful launch execution could look like
Strategic Intention:
This is not just a thought experiment. It’s a proof of capability — showing what current commercially available GenAI technology and state-of-the-art prompting strategies can do for real brands in real treatment areas. The Lumara Series is both an example and a blueprint for what is possible.
The Lumara Series
Episode 6: The Unknown Unknowns -- How Much Intel Are Your Competitors Gathering?
The Unknown Unknowns — How Much Intel Are Your Competitors Gathering?
Episode 6 pulls back the curtain on competitive intelligence (CI) maturity in severe asthma launches—what top teams track, how fast they learn, and why it matters for pricing, access, messaging, and patient support. We contrast integrated, always-on CI programs with reactive, vendor-only approaches, and show how social listening, field feedback loops, KOL digital patterns, and payer advisory monitoring translate into real decisions. You’ll also hear the most common failure points—time lag from signal to action, siloed insights, and low field trust—and how Lumara can build an “always-on” CI operating system before launch.
What you’ll learn
- The CI modalities that actually change strategy (field synthesis, payer boards, social signal mining, KOL patterns)
- How dominant vs. challenger brands structure CI—and where they stumble
- Practical ways to close gaps: dashboards, incentives, Medical/Access triangulation, faster synthesis-to-action cycles
- How to estimate what rivals already know about you—and plan accordingly
Featured segments
- Inside the CI Stack: From Field Notes to Signals that Stick
- Benchmarks & Blind Spots: What the Best Teams Do Differently
- Build the OS: Always-On CI, Incentives, and Weekly Cadence