We don't hand you a paper. We install the system that produces them, for the rest of your career.
Every plan gets the whole system: 18 playbooks, the textbook and the 9-phase course. What changes between plans is how much help comes with it.
From $600 · No-Cost EMI in India · Phase 0 is free to try first
Here's everything you get.
In every plan, Foundations included.
No plan holds anything back. Foundations gets the same playbooks, textbook and course as Mastery. Each piece is built to kill one specific way beginners get stuck.
The 100-Hour Meta
The why behind every step, with a diagram for every idea, written for students starting from zero. Chapters open as you reach each phase, and the whole book opens when you finish.
Read online, so you always have the latest edition.
9 phases, 110+ short visual lessons
About 16 hours of video that builds each idea on screen, step by step, from your research question to your submitted paper. With real worked runs at every stage, failed attempts included, so you see what to do when a topic dies.
Try it first: Phase 0 is free. Start Phase 0 →
18 playbooks, one for every stage
Step-by-step working guides with the checklists, templates and scripts you fill in. Open one, follow it, tick every box.
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Master map
The Research Navigator™
Kills: getting lost between phases. One map shows where you are and what done means before you move on.
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Topic selection
Trial by Fire™
Kills: months burned on a question that isn't new or doable. Eight gates test it in an afternoon.
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Search strategy
Stand on the Giants™
Kills: guessing keywords. Your search is built from the landmark papers, then tested before you screen.
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Screening
Screening Accelerator™ v2.0
Kills: drowning in PDFs. Clear rules keep a two-week step from becoming a two-month one.
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Data extraction
Divergent Extraction Protocol™
Kills: the inconsistent numbers that lose papers. One master template for every included study.
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Data extraction
Expert Wrangler's Playbook™
Kills: messy, mismatched data. Every study ends up in the same clean, comparable shape.
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Missing data
Imputation Formulas Cheatcode
Kills: the missing-data problem that stalls students for weeks. The right formula fixes it in an afternoon.
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Evidence quality
GIGO Protocol™
Kills: flawed evidence sneaking into your analysis. It is stopped at the door.
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Statistics
Know Your Numbers Primer™
Kills: fear of the statistics. Plain language, no background assumed.
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Analysis
R-MetaScript™
Kills: black-box outputs. Forest and funnel plots in code you write and can rerun.
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Analysis
7-Step RevMan Protocol
Kills: fear of code. The same analysis, point and click, in seven steps.
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Writing
Sterile Results
Kills: spin in your results. What you found, in the order reviewers read it.
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Writing
Catalytic Introduction
Kills: the rambling introduction. Known, gap, your study, in a few tight paragraphs.
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Writing
Great Discussion
Kills: the discussion that just repeats the results. Weigh them against the evidence instead.
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Writing
High-Impact Conclusion
Kills: the forgettable ending. One take-home message and what it changes.
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Writing
Golden Abstract
Kills: abstracts that get skimmed. Built to clear a conference committee's bar.
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Writing
Automated Referencing
Kills: hours of reference formatting. Set up once, it updates with every redraft.
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Peer review
Peer Review Navigation Playbook™
Kills: panic at "major revisions". Rebuttals that are complete, diplomatic and bulletproof.
The playbooks are the map. When you hit a wall the map didn't clear (your search string returns nothing, your R script won't run), spend a Doubt Token. A senior mentor looks at your exact problem and sends back the fix, usually within 24 to 48 hours.
Tokens in each plan
Need more? Buy extra tokens anytime.
Pay for the course.
Everything else comes with it.
A paper you can stand behind, in 100 hours instead of two years. Every piece below takes time or effort off that path.
- Learn itThe 9-phase course110+ short visual lessons that build each idea on screen, about 16 hours.$600the course
- Master itThe 100-Hour Meta, the textbookThe why behind every step, with a diagram for every idea.Free
- Master it18 playbooksOne for every stage of the paper: the checklists, templates and scripts.Free
- Master itWorked demonstrationsReal runs at every stage, failed attempts included, so you know what to do when a topic dies.Free
- Master itEvery tool and templateThe Topic Selection Map, the Citation Benchmark Atlas, the PRISMA and extraction templates.Free
- Get unstuckDoubt TokensA senior mentor on your exact problem: 3, 8 or 32, with your plan.Included
- AcceleratorThe live cohort8 weekly calls with a mentor and your cohort, and a deadline that carries you to submission.+$900about $113 a call
Prices shown for your region. Studio is sold separately, and only to Tau Square students.
Plenty of people get their name on a paper now.
Far fewer can stand behind one.
Months, often a year or two, and most beginners still finish with nothing they can publish.
You can end up on a paper fast. But you didn't run the process, so you can't repeat it, and you can't truly stand behind it when someone asks how it was done.
You run every step yourself, with the system above and a mentor behind you. So you can defend the paper, and do the next one alone.
Every plan starts with the whole system.
Each step up adds people.
With a senior mentor co-writing your papers, it's $6,000. Most students don't need that much help, so there are two lighter ways in.
Foundations starts the day you enrol. The Accelerator cohort opens on a fixed date.
- Co-writes every manuscript with you
- Weekly 45-minute 1:1 calls
- Line-by-line editorial review
- A plan for several papers, not just one
32 Doubt Tokens
By application. Places depend on one mentor's calendar.
Apply for Mastery Clinical Grace Period: rotations or board exams? We extend your access.- 8 weeks in a group that moves together
- Weekly calls
- A deadline that carries you to submission
- 12 months of access
8 Doubt Tokens
India price, set at today’s rate
+ Tau Square Studio, the software you do it in. Add it at checkout, from $10 a month. Carryover: not ready to submit by week 8? The next cohort is free.Pay in rupees by UPI, card or No-Cost EMI.
Secure checkout in US dollars.
18 playbooks, the textbook, the 9-phase course and every template. Self-paced, with 6 months of access.
3 Doubt Tokens
India price, set at today’s rate
+ Tau Square Studio, the software you do it in. Add it at checkout, from $10 a month. Upgrade Clause: move up within 4 months and your full $600 counts.Pay in rupees by UPI, card or No-Cost EMI.
Secure checkout in US dollars.
Choose today.
You're covered if things change.
Medical school is unpredictable. These three promises come with your plan, so the choice you make today never traps you.
The Upgrade Clause
Move up from Foundations to Accelerator within 4 months, and your full fee counts.
You pay only the difference, and get the cohort, 8 fresh Doubt Tokens and 12 months of access.
Accelerator Carryover
Not ready to submit when your cohort ends? You join the next cohort free.
The deadline is there to pull you forward, not to punish you.
Clinical Grace Period
Rotations or board exams squeezing your time? We extend your access.
Your investment doesn't expire because medicine happened.
What we can't promise: that a journal accepts your paper. Editors and reviewers decide that, and any program that promises it is lying to you. We promise the process, and our presence in it.
All sales are final: the playbooks and templates are downloadable, so they can't be returned. That's why Phase 0 and a 15-minute call are free, so you can decide first.
Questions before you choose
Do I get printed books?
Mastery students do: the textbook and all 18 playbooks come as printed books. On Foundations and Accelerator, the playbooks and templates are digital files you download and keep, and the textbook is read online in your dashboard, chapter by chapter.
What exactly are Doubt Tokens?
When you hit a wall on your own project (a search string returns nothing, an R script won't run), you send the specific problem and a senior mentor sends back the exact fix, usually within 24 to 48 hours. Every plan comes with some (32, 8 or 3), and you can buy more anytime.
Can I pay in rupees?
Yes. In India, checkout is in rupees by UPI, card or No-Cost EMI, and you see the full amount, with 18% GST, before you pay. Outside India, you pay in US dollars.
Do I need a university login for the databases?
No. We teach the exact search strategies for open-access databases (PubMed) and gated ones (Embase). We strictly do not provide institutional login credentials or software licences.
What if I miss the cohort start?
Foundations is self-paced and available anytime, no cohort needed. The Accelerator cohort opens every 8 weeks, so if you miss this intake, the next one opens shortly after.
Does a systematic review count as original research?
By method, it's secondary research: it pools studies other people ran. But many of the rules that score applications count it as research. UK Internal Medicine Training scores it as original research, and India's NMC lists it as a research publication for faculty posts. The full answer, with sources →
Try the teaching before you decide.
Phase 0 is free: 14 short lessons, no card needed. Or book a free 15-minute call and ask us anything about the plans.