Agent skill · business finance · borghei
research-finance
Research budgeting and funding operations — study budget construction, cost per participant and per insight, burn against milestones, and portfolio prioritisation by decision value. Use when costing, tracking, or ranking research.
Why this skill is useful
Provides domain-specific knowledge on budgeting and funding operations for research, including cost tracking and prioritization methods not commonly found in general resources.
What it needs
Requires python3 installed locally. About 8k tokens when loaded. Last updated 2026-07-21. 462 stars on the source repository.
What this skill does
Research Finance The money side of research operations: building a study budget that funds what the study will actually consume, tracking spend against delivery rather than against the calendar, and deciding which research to fund when the portfolio asks for more than the budget holds. When to use this skill Costing a study before a funding request, where the budget will be scrutinised line by line and a missing line item becomes unfunded work Answering "what does this cost per participant" — the number every funder, finance partner, and sponsor asks first Tracking a programme mid-flight and needing to know whether the spend is buying delivery or just buying time Forecasting an overrun early enough to descope rather than late enough to need supplementary funding Prioritising a research portfolio that asks for more than the budget available Defending a research budget against a finance partner who sees a cost centre and needs to see decision value Inputs the skill expects Unit costs: per participant, per site, per site-month, and fixed programme costs Enrolment target, screen failure rate, site count, and duration Contingency and overhead rates your organisation applies For tracking: budget at completion, weighted milestones with completion, and planned versus actual spend by period For portfolio work: each study's cost, the value of the decision it informs, and the probability it changes that decision Decision deadlines — a study that lands after the decision is worth nothing Clarify First Before generating, confirm these inputs. …
How to use it
Reference it in AdaL, Claude Code, Cursor or any coding agent — nothing to install:
@skills borghei/research-finance