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Pilot application

There is no fee: pilot review is funded by a grant from James Scott, managed by the Embassy Row Project. This form collects only non-sensitive information about the shape of the work. Do not include confidential, classified, export-controlled, embargoed, or personally sensitive material, and do not attach files — the form does not accept them.

Cost: None; grant-funded
Review: Manual eligibility review
Approval: Never automatic
Files: Not accepted

All fields describe the shape of the work rather than its content. Keep descriptions at a level you would be comfortable stating publicly.

Name

Organisation

Role

Research domain

Review programme of interest

What kind of claim or problem is under review?

Describe the class of claim, contradiction, or bottleneck — not the confidential detail.

What decision would the review inform, and when is it due?

Publication, replication, redesign, scale-up, investment timing, or termination.

What evidence exists, in general terms?

For example: measurements with calibration records, simulation output, replication attempts, or documentation only.

Is there a known contradiction or unresolved anomaly?

Could read-only record access be arranged after qualification?

Preferred timing

I confirm this submission contains no confidential, classified, export-controlled, embargoed, or personally sensitive material.

I understand that review is adversarial toward claims and assumptions, that findings are not conditional on a preferred conclusion, and that receipt of this application is not approval.

Verification

Verification is required before submission and is renewed for each submission.

Do not submit confidential, classified, export-controlled, or embargoed research material through this form. No file upload is offered. Secure exchange occurs only after qualification.

Before you apply

Eligibility review is carried out by a person. Approval is never automatic and the Institute may decline, defer, or refer.
Nothing sensitive is accepted here. Confidential material is handled only under separate written arrangements after qualification.
The Institute does not certify results, does not endorse claims, and does not grade researchers.
A completed review may conclude that the evidence does not support the claim. That outcome is a legitimate result of the process.

Check fit first

The self-check below asks six non-sensitive questions and returns an indication only. Nothing is recorded or transmitted.

Question 1 of 6

Is the work related to frontier physics or adjacent high-consequence research?

Frontier, exotic, or unusually consequential research where an error would be expensive to discover later.

Only non-sensitive characteristics are asked. The self-check never returns an approval, and no answers are transmitted or stored.