Governance
Claims Library
A set of pre-approved claim statements that teams reuse instead of rewriting the same assertion from scratch, with each use linked back to the approved entry and its references.
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LAST REVIEWED — 2026-10-19 17:49:49 UTC
What it is
A claims library is a set of pre-approved statements that teams reuse instead of rewriting the same assertion from scratch each time. Reuse is not necessarily word-for-word. In Veeva Vault PromoMats, which documents the pattern under Text and Claims Management, a claim record carries a match text and may hold recorded variations of it — Veeva’s overview article for Text and Claims Management caps these at nine Match Text Variation records per claim — and the system links both exact and near matches. Exact matches are linked automatically by default, and near ones arrive as suggestions a reviewer accepts or rejects. An administrator can disable that automatic linking, in which case Vault generates suggested links for every match, exact ones included. Veeva’s optional Claims Agent, part of Vault AI for PromoMats, changes the near-match half: it still links exact matches automatically, and for a contextual match it also drafts a new claim record as a variation of the matched claim, still surfaced as a suggested link that names both the matched claim and the new one. Each entry keeps its own reference links, which can be whole documents or anchors within them, so a piece of collateral carries a traceable line back to what was approved.
Why it matters
The benefit is not consistency for its own sake — it is that a single correction propagates. Each entry records the document versions it has been linked on, so when one entry changes, everything built from it is identifiable, which turns a re-audit of every asset into a targeted update of the few that used the changed claim. The tooling that documents this pattern sits in regulated promotional review, where material goes through an MLR check before release; the mechanics apply anywhere claims are repeated across surfaces. Knowledge Company applies them outside regulated markets.
Related terms
Approved Claim
A customer-facing statement that has been reviewed and can be reused across website, sales, support, and AI-answer surfaces.
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Canonical Answer
The one approved phrasing for a question that gets asked repeatedly, held in a single place and reused everywhere it is needed.
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Claim Registry
A maintained record of every public claim a company makes, holding its approved wording, its evidence, its owner, and the date it was last checked.
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MLR Review
The medical, legal and regulatory sign-off that life-sciences companies require before any external-facing claim is published.
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