Your Sponsors Open Low. Aurora Shows Your Team Exactly How Much Higher to Push.
Aurora — The Study Economics System
Aurora is built from 13 years of clinical research negotiation experience — the same work that grew one organization from $900,000 to $3.4 million in annual revenue in 10 months. It brings that same standard to every budget and CTA your team reviews, without adding a single person to your payroll.
Results reflect specific consulting outcomes achieved over 10 months. Individual results will vary based on protocol, sponsor, and site-specific factors.
Negotiation Is the Longest and Most Expensive Startup Bottleneck
For most clinical research sites, the bottleneck is not finding studies. It is negotiating them. Negotiation quality varies by who is in the room that day, review cycles stretch for weeks, and every position your team fails to defend is revenue your site never sees again.
Results reflect specific consulting outcomes. Individual results will vary.
Limited Capacity Per Staff Member
Negotiation capacity is constrained by individual experience and bandwidth, creating bottlenecks as study volume increases.
One person out sick means a study sits.
Days-Long Review Cycles
Inconsistent negotiation approaches and manual review cycles extend timelines and delay study activation.
Every extra day is a day the sponsor is activating someone else.
Lost Revenue Opportunities
Missed or weakly defended negotiation positions permanently reduce achievable study economics.
You will never know what you left on the table.
Delayed Cash Flow
Extended negotiations delay startup, pushing revenue realization weeks or months downstream.
Your staff gets paid. The study revenue does not arrive until you close.
Scaling Requires More Staff
Scaling negotiation capacity typically requires hiring more experienced staff, increasing overhead and training costs.
And the new hire takes 6 months to get up to speed.
Most sites don't have a study opportunity problem — they have a negotiation strategy problem
Aurora Turns Negotiation Into a Strategic Advantage.
Aurora brings the same negotiation standard to every contract review — so your results do not depend on who is available that day.
Apply Consistent Negotiation Judgment.
Every contract review Aurora supports reflects the same standard — consistent, thorough, and not dependent on which staff member handles it that day.
Consistent output regardless of staff experience or availability.
Defend Study Economics More Effectively.
Aurora surfaces negotiation positions that are commonly overlooked or inconsistently applied during manual negotiations.
Uncompensated activities identifiedBudget positioning highlightedPositions identified that are commonly missed in manual review
Scale Negotiation Capacity Without Adding Headcount.
As your study volume grows, Aurora grows with it — without a proportional increase in senior staff or training time.
Consistent strategy applied across studiesReduced dependency on individual negotiatorsNo additional hiring required
Human-Controlled, AI-Assisted Decisions
Aurora supports negotiation workflows while keeping users in control of final revisions and submissions.
You approve every changeNo automated submissionsFull audit trail maintainedAurora Was Built From the Negotiation Floor Up.
Aurora was not built in a conference room by people who read about clinical research negotiation. It was built by someone who spent 13 years doing it — negotiating budgets and CTAs across dozens of studies, learning where sponsors push back, where they give ground, and what separates a good outcome from a great one. That experience is what Aurora brings to your team.
The Aurora Founding Member Performance Guarantee
If Aurora does not surface at least $10,000 in negotiation positions worth reviewing on the first study your team processes after launch, your first month is on us. No questions. No forms. The only condition: upload your budget or CTA and review what Aurora finds. That is all we ask.
We offer this because we know what this work produces. If you run it and we are wrong, you should not pay. Simple.
Guarantee applies to the first study reviewed after launch. Results will vary based on protocol complexity, sponsor, and site-specific factors. See full guarantee terms at checkout.
Upload Budget or CTA
Upload your budget or CTA in standard formats. Aurora prepares it for review.
DOCS
XLSX
Aurora Reviews Your Contract
Aurora goes through your budget or CTA and identifies positions your team should look at more closely before responding to the sponsor.
Positions flagged for your team's review
Your team makes every final call
Review What Aurora Found
Aurora presents negotiation recommendations in a structured format. Your team maintains full control—accepting, modifying, or rejecting each recommendation based on judgment and context.
Final judgment always remains with your team.
Generate Sponsor-Ready Output
When your team is ready, Aurora produces a clean document reflecting your negotiated position — formatted and ready for the next step in your workflow.
PDF Export
Word Export
Designed to fit into existing site negotiation workflows. No process overhaul. No dependency on individual negotiators.Aurora supports your workflow. Your team drives it.
Built From Real Negotiation Outcomes — Not Theory
Aurora was not built from research papers or industry surveys. It was built from 13 years of sitting across from sponsors, fighting for every dollar sites deserved, and learning what actually moves the needle. Every site that uses Aurora gets that experience applied to their contracts.
Negotiation Capacity Expansion
Handle more studies without proportionally more senior staff time.
Stronger Study Economics
Every study your team reviews reflects the same standard — no more results that depend on who handled it.
Reduced Negotiation Friction
Less back and forth. Fewer cycles. Faster to activation.
Systematic Approach
Built from 13 years of hands-on clinical research negotiation
Not built from surveys or industry reports. Built from doing the work.Informed by real outcomes across studies and sponsors
Experience across multiple study types and sponsor organizations.Designed for the specific economics of clinical research sites
Built for how sites actually get paid, not how general software works.Measurable Impact
Increased annual revenue
Material improvements to research incomeMaterial economics
Better margins on every negotiationImproved per-study margins
Growth without proportional staffingScalable performance
Consistent results as study volume growsLock Your Price Before General Availability. Forever.
30 sites. One price. The negotiation experience that grew a clinical research organization from $900,000 to $3.4 million in annual revenue in 10 months is now available to your team — at a price that will never be this low again.
Results reflect specific consulting outcomes achieved over 10 months. Individual results will vary based on protocol, sponsor, and site-specific factors.
Monthly
Aurora™ Founding Member — The Study Economics System
$500/month
Card saved today. Charged at launch only.
Annual
Aurora™ Founding Member — The Study Economics System — Annual
$5,000/year
Card saved today. Charged at launch only.
Save $1,000 vs. monthly
Equivalent to two months free
GA annual pricing: $12,000/year
Founding members pay $500/month for life. General availability opens at $1,200/month.
What's Included:
Up to 5 active contracts
Manage multiple negotiations simultaneously
Create and manage budgets & CTAs
Full document management
Interactive revision workflows
Guided approval process
Basic support (presale)
Email support
Single-user access
Account owner access
AI-assisted contract review
Positions flagged for your team's review
Email notifications
Stay updated on analysis progress
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