Specific aims, narratives, and budgets that reviewers actually fund.
Reviewer-ready grant packages for NIH, NSF, AHRQ, foundations, and intramural mechanisms.
For early-career and mid-career investigators, faculty mentors, and grant-writing teams.
Most grants fail at the specific aims page.
Reviewers form their score in the first paragraph. We help you write specific aims that are clear, hypothesis-driven, and feasible — then build the rest of the application around them.
Specific deliverables, not vague promises.
Specific aims development
Iterative drafting of the most-read page in your application, pressure-tested against reviewer logic.
Narrative & approach
Significance, innovation, approach, and rigor sections built to NIH or NSF reviewer rubrics.
Budget & justification
Modular and detailed budgets with defensible justifications, including indirect cost handling.
Biosketches & support docs
NIH biosketch builds, facilities and resources statements, vertebrate animal sections, and human subjects sections.
Mock review
Internal review by a study-section-experienced reader before submission — with scored feedback.
Built for your stage and setting.
Early-career investigators preparing K, R03, R21, or R01 applications
Mid-career faculty submitting U or P-series mechanisms
Foundation and intramural grant applicants
Resubmissions following an unscored or low-scored prior submission
A predictable engagement, end to end.
Consultation
Review your science, deadline, and prior reviewer feedback if applicable.
- Free 30 min
Aims sprint
Three rounds of specific aims drafting in two weeks, with reviewer-style feedback.
- 3 drafts
Narrative build
Section-by-section drafting and editing of the full application.
- Rubric-aligned
Mock review
Internal critique by a study-section-experienced reader before submission.
- Scored feedback
Exactly what you receive.
Polished, reviewer-tested final version
Significance, innovation, approach, rigor
With cost-share modeling if applicable
NIH-format ready
Scored feedback in study-section format
Questions about Grant Accelerator
Yes. We have supported successful submissions in as little as four weeks, but six to ten is more typical. We will tell you honestly if a deadline is unrealistic.
Nobody can. We can guarantee that your application will be the strongest version of your science — and that we will tell you if a mechanism is not well-matched before you invest weeks of writing.
Ready to start grant Accelerator?
Schedule your free consultation and walk away with a practical next-step plan.
30-minute scoping call · Confidential · No commitment