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Discovery calls and methods inquiries.

Working with me

Every engagement starts with a free 20-minute discovery call. The call is non-committal; you leave it knowing whether the work is a fit and what a proposal would look like. After the call, you receive a written proposal with scope, methodology, deliverable, timeline, and fee. Each proposal is written to the specific study; there is no flat-rate price list.

The practice covers methods consulting for medical and health-services research: study design, causal inference, sensitivity analysis, and methods writing. The Services page describes the scope in more detail; the Portfolio page shows worked examples of the kind of thinking each surface produces; the Handbook is the free methodology reference itself, with The Confounder delivering it by email over time.

Reach out

The fastest path is a brief note over email. I respond within two business days.

For consulting inquiries and discovery calls, send a brief note. For methodology questions intended for The Confounder Q&A, use “Confounder question” in the subject line so the email triages cleanly.

What an inquiry should include

To make the discovery call efficient, please include:

  1. The research question or methodological problem in one or two sentences.
  2. The current stage of the work (literature review, study design, data collection, analysis, manuscript draft, reviewer revision, regulatory submission).
  3. The timeline (when the work needs to be done by, or whether there is an external deadline such as a grant cycle or a journal revision window).
  4. The format you’re hoping for (one-off methods review, sample-size memo, full study-design engagement, methods section for a paper or grant, ongoing methodological advisor relationship).

A scoped inquiry of this shape is enough to scope the engagement on a 20-minute call. Underspecified inquiries are welcome too, but the call will spend more time on scoping and less on the methods.