Behind the Curtain is Kumenya's research development curriculum. Your team learns the KUMENYA Method by applying it to your institution's real opportunities, taught by people who sat on the funder's side.
Every element of the curriculum produces real work: assessments, maps, and strategies your office keeps and keeps using. Your staff learn by doing the work on your own portfolio, with an experienced guide beside them.
Your team learns how federal funders evaluate ideas, reads public signals, maps your strengths, and assesses portfolio health.
You keep: your team's input to a Research Advancement Diagnostic Report
Your team matches ideas to mechanisms, sequences pursuits, and identifies faculty ready to compete.
You keep: a Research Advancement Roadmap
Your staff lead; Kumenya stays on call for complex, high-stakes pursuits.
You keep: a research development practice your office runs on its own
A typical engagement runs 6-12 months, with advisory support continuing into Phase 3. Deeper-dive diagnostics run alongside Phases 1 and 2.
No. Kumenya builds your research development team's capability. For one-on-one proposal coaching with faculty, our partner Wise Investigator runs a 12-week funding program.
No one outside an agency can know that, and we don't claim to. We teach your team to read what funders signal publicly and position your ideas early.
Federal research funders. The curriculum centers on basic research and also covers applied and translational funding. Hands-on help and deeper training on applied, translational, or non-federal funding are available as additional services.
No. The method is designed to make more of your ideas competitive, and to leave your team able to keep doing that.
Your team keeps running the method. That's the point.