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Feasibility, argued in the open.

Method notes on how a feasibility answer should be built, checked, and disagreed with. No invented statistics, no case studies we cannot name — if we cannot source a number, we make the argument without it.

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Bid defence

What a CRO bid defence needs

The bid defence is won or lost on one question asked five different ways: where did that number come from? Here is how to make every figure in a feasibility pack answerable.

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Cohort

Eligibility criteria are a cohort tax

Every criterion is added for a good reason and priced as if it were free. The arithmetic is multiplicative, the cost is invisible at the point of decision, and nobody in the room owns it.

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Operations

Site selection is a data problem

Track record, competition density and the enrolment arithmetic are all measurable from public records — and the most common site-selection mistake is a counting error, not a judgement error.

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Evidence

Reading a trial’s failure: what “why stopped” actually means

A free-text field on a registry record is doing more work in the industry’s models than almost anything else. Most of what it says is not a failure — and “completed” is not the same as “worked”.

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Method

What “probability of success” can and cannot tell you

Ours is directional, and we say so on the number. Here is why an honest directional read is more useful than a precise-looking one — and what a PoS structurally cannot see.

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Method

Why most feasibility assessments are unfalsifiable

A feasibility pack that cannot be wrong is not a piece of analysis. It is a document. Here is the difference, and what a checkable one looks like line by line.

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See a verdict you can actually check.

Send us a protocol — or just a molecule and an indication. We'll return a fully cited feasibility assessment you can trace, line by line, back to public data — yours to defend in a bid, take to your board or investment committee, or hand to a regulator.