For faculty whose research is competing with everything else on the calendar
You didn’t get into this to manage a pipeline. So let us run it.
The tenure clock doesn’t care that you’re teaching three sections and sitting on four committees. We become your outsourced research office, running the publication pipeline and grant strategy, so your time goes back to the lab, the students, and the science only you can do.
For deans, department heads and research offices
Retention is cheaper than replacement
A faculty member who misses their review costs a department a search. We run the same engagement across a cohort, invoiced centrally, with a scope document written for procurement.
The gap
You already know the exact date your dossier is due.
And somewhere in the back of your mind is the gap — the papers you meant to finish, the grant you keep almost submitting, the line on your CV that still says in preparation. It isn’t that you can’t do the work. It’s that the work keeps getting interrupted by all the other work.
That gap isn’t a verdict on your ability. It’s a project-management problem dressed up as an existential one — and project-management problems are exactly what a dedicated research office is built to absorb.
We start there. With the milestone you’re most afraid you won’t reach in time.
Your pipeline, owned by someone
In preparation (2 items)
- Chapter 4 → paperStalled eight months
- Review articleInvited
Drafting (2 items)
- Field study II
- Specific Aims pageNext grant cycle
Under review (1 item)
- Methods paperDay 41 with the journal
Accepted (1 item)
- Co-authored paper
Illustrative board. Every stage is carried by its column heading in the page’s reading order, so nothing here depends on colour or position.
In every tier
What the office does, whichever cadence you choose
Manuscript development
Structure, argument and reviewer-proofing on your papers in flight.
Publication pipeline management
A live board: in preparation → drafting → under review → accepted.
Grant strategy & Aims refinement
Cycle timing, mechanism fit and a Specific Aims page that survives a panel.
A strategist who knows your file
Not a ticket queue — someone accountable for your trajectory.
How the engagement works
Three steps. No black box.
Every deliverable is developmental. The science, the ideas and the authorship stay yours — always.
You tell us the milestone you’re afraid you’ll miss
That single line becomes the spine of your whole strategy — every cadence, deadline and grant decision is reverse-engineered from it.
We build and run the office
Drafting cadence, submission tracking, grant timing — the work moves whether or not your week cooperates.
You show up to your review with a record, not a scramble
A CV that grew on purpose and a dossier that reads like a plan that worked.
Engagements
Choose the cadence that matches your clock
Billed monthly — or pay annually and get 2 months free on any tier. Invoices, POs and a dean-ready scope document are available on every tier.
| Feature | Associate€1,149 | Director€1,799 | Partner€2,549 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Target output | 2–3 papers / year | 4–6 papers / year | 6–8 papers / year + book or programme |
| Manuscript development | Included | Included | Included |
| Publication pipeline management | Included | Included | Included |
| Grant strategy & Aims refinement | 1 cycle / year | Quarterly | Unlimited |
| Dedicated strategist | Shared | Named lead | Named lead + team |
| Quarterly career-trajectory review | Not included | Included | Included |
| Tenure-dossier positioning audit | Not included | Not included | Included |
| Priority turnaround | Not included | Included | Same week |
| Annual prepay — 2 months free | €11,490 | €17,990 | €25,490 |
| Choose a tier | Choose Associate | Choose Director | Choose Partner |
Why most faculty choose Director: it is the cadence that matches a real tenure timeline — enough output velocity to close the gap, with a named lead who owns it.
Entry point: from €1,149/month. Global South Scholar Fund — a 30% subsidy for eligible applicants. That route is an eligibility check and never sends you to checkout.
For departments and teaching centres
Buying through an institution?
We invoice institutions directly and supply the paperwork your finance office asks for. No card required.
Our guarantee
The Marathon Pause
If the Strategy Brief shows an Accelerator isn’t what your clock needs, we’ll say so — and point you somewhere cheaper.
Non-negotiables
Four commitments we publish, so you can hold us to them
Human-Led Certification
Every strategic decision is reviewed and signed by a PhD expert — never solely by an automated system.
Ethical AI Disclosure
We disclose every tool used in your diagnostic. No hidden automation.
Data Sovereignty
Your intellectual property remains yours. We never use your work to train a model.
No Ghostwriting, Ever
We nurture your voice. We never substitute your ideas with ours — and we will decline work that requests us to.
Frequently asked questions
Objections worth taking seriously
Isn’t this just paying someone to do my research?
No. The science, the ideas and the authorship are yours — they have to be. We own the machinery around them: scheduling, pipeline tracking, grant-cycle timing, and the follow-through that stops a paper sitting at eighty per cent for eight months. You stay the scientist. We make sure the scientist’s output actually ships.
What if I’m too far behind for this to matter?
Then start with the free Strategy Brief. It is written, it arrives within 3 working days, and it tells you honestly what is achievable before your review date — and if the answer is “not enough to justify this”, we will say so.
Why is this a long engagement rather than month-to-month?
Because publication cycles are annual. A three-month engagement cannot move a paper from in preparation to accepted; it can only tidy the desk. You can still move between tiers at any monthly renewal.
Can my department or institution fund this?
Frequently, yes — via start-up funds, professional development allocations or research-office budgets. We provide invoices, POs and a scope document written for a dean. Choose an institutional route in the intake and the paperwork comes with your brief.
How is AI used, and what happens to my files?
Diagnostic scanning only, and every tool used on your work is named in the report you receive. Every strategic decision is human-led and PhD-signed. Uploads are stored outside the web root, never web-served, encrypted in transit, and never used to train a public model.
Do you already have a Sprint or MRI booked with us?
Then check before you buy twice: Director and Partner already include grant cycles and manuscript development. Contact us with your existing reference and we will credit overlapping work.
Earlier in your career?
A dissertation isn’t a tenure case
If a full outsourced research office isn’t quite the right fit yet, The Dissertation Finisher offers the same structured, long-term partnership — built for getting a dissertation across the finish line. See the Dissertation Finisher
Start here
Get your free Strategy Brief
You’re not signing anything yet. Tell us where you are on the clock and send one document; within 3 working days we send a written three-step plan. You keep the plan either way.