Strategic Blindness: Why 500 Hours of “Good Science” Still Ends in Rejection
Current estimates suggest the average researcher spends over 100 hours preparing a single R01 grant application. If that application is rejected due to “lack of innovation” or “poor fit,” those hours are wasted.
The problem is rarely the science itself. The problem is Strategic Misalignment.
The Grant Compass is not a writing guide. It is a Strategic Intelligence Protocol.
It documents a data-driven approach for using AI and NIH RePORTER data to reverse-engineer the “Hidden Curriculum” of a Study Section before you write a single specific aim.




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