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Three ways
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Fifteen Regeneron ISEF Grand Awards and five Top Awards sit behind this work. What we cannot do is make it bigger. We are three people, so the seats are a real number, published here with the price of each engagement and the date its window closes.

The Partnership

$30,000

A full season, question through competition

Four per season

The 2026-2027 window closes 15 September 2026

The three of us. One project. A full season.

Everyone else in this field assigns you a mentor. You get the founders, people who stood at an ISEF booth last season and won, working your project from before the question is settled to the moment a judge stops at your board and a year of work comes down to how you answer. Four students a season. Our phone numbers, not a portal. When being in the room changes something, we fly.

What it includes

  • Pressure-testing the questions you bring, for feasibility and for what a year can actually answer
  • Study design, technical learning, and troubleshooting when an experiment fails in February
  • Which analysis your design calls for, what it can support, and what it cannot
  • Critique of your figures, abstract, display, and submissions
  • Competition selection and framing for each audience
  • Mock judging, and competition-week preparation
  • Travel to your competition when being there changes something

What it does not

We do not generate your research question, write your research plan, abstract, paper, or poster, run your analysis, or produce your figures. You bring the draft; we tell you the truth about it.

Competition Season

$12,000

Twelve weeks, January through May

Nine per season

The 2027 window closes 15 January 2027

You have the science. This decides what happens to it.

Good research loses every spring, and rarely because it was bad science. It loses to a figure nobody can read from six feet, a claim that overreaches by one word, an answer that sounds unsure in the second it matters. Twelve weeks turning finished work into work that survives a judge who is looking for a reason to move on. For a student who already has data, from a school laboratory, a summer placement, a university mentor, or a previous season, and a fair already on the calendar.

What it includes

  • A full opening read of the work as it stands, and an honest position on how it will land
  • Competition selection, and how the same study should be framed for each
  • Review of your analysis and of what your data will and will not carry
  • Critique of your figures and display against the six-foot standard
  • Abstract review, against the rules as they are written this year
  • Three mock judging rounds
  • Competition-week preparation

What it does not

Anything that changes the research itself. If the opening read finds the study needs redesigning, we will tell you that and decline the engagement rather than dress up work that will not hold.

The Final Read

$1,800

One adversarial read of a finished project

Twenty-four per season, in two windows

Nothing is sold inside seven days of your fair date

Everyone around you wants to tell you it is good. We do not.

Your teacher is proud of you. Your parents are invested. Your mentor signed off months ago. Send us the display and the abstract exactly as they stand, and you get back in writing the specific things a judge will catch, while there is still time to fix them. It is also the least expensive way to find out whether you want us for the rest of it.

What it includes

  • A close read of your display, abstract, and project summary as submitted
  • A written critique: the figure a judge will squint at, the claim that overreaches by one word, the line that reads badly from six feet
  • A live session to work through it, with the questions we expect you to be asked
  • The written record of the engagement, for your paperwork

What it does not

We do not open your files. Everything we return is a critique for you to act on, in your own words, in your own time.

The Final Read credits in full against either larger engagement in the same season. Travel and materials, where they arise, are billed at cost and approved in advance.

The terms we hold ourselves to

These are not preferences. They are limits we are accepting in public so that a family has something to hold us to.

The price never moves with the result.

No award bonus, no success fee, no refund tied to advancement. Payment that varies with competition placement is not permitted under the rules we work within, and it would put our interests exactly where they should not be.

Nothing is sold inside seven days of your fair.

Work delivered inside a week cannot be absorbed by the student who has to defend it. Unabsorbed feedback is the point at which review quietly becomes authorship, so we close the window instead of taking the booking.

No more than four engagements overlap in any week.

Fair dates cluster into a few weeks every spring. A seasonal limit alone would let every student we have need us on the same Tuesday, so the binding limit is weekly and some weeks are simply closed.

Every engagement comes with a written record.

One paragraph, in plain language, stating what we did and what you did — issued for a single Final Read as readily as for a full season. It is written so you can put it straight into your research plan, your forms, and your acknowledgements.

When demand rises, capacity closes. The price does not.

Families in a hurry are the easiest people in this field to charge more. We would rather sell nothing in March than sell the same hours for more because someone is frightened.

A published price is not an open seat.

The interview still decides. Publishing what an engagement costs means money buys a defined piece of work; it has never meant it buys admission.

Paid mentorship is permitted. Concealing it is not

Competition rules do not prohibit a student from working with a paid adviser. What they require is that the relationship is disclosed in full and that the work presented is genuinely the student's own. We write the disclosure for you, in plain language, and we will never ask a student to keep our involvement private — from a teacher, a sponsor, a fair, or a judge.

Read our commitments on ownership and authorship

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Our first session is to determine fit and get to know you. Please do not feel pressured to overly prepare!

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