| name | accelerate-site-activation |
| description | Sequence site selection, contracting, and start-up as the schedule's critical path to cut the activation delay. Reach for this when sites are slow. |
Skill: Accelerate site activation
Activation is the schedule's long pole; delay can cost $0.6M–$8M/day.
Step 1 — Map the activation steps
Selection, contracting, regulatory/IRB, and start-up (§3 #4).
Step 2 — Find the bottleneck
Locate the step delaying first-patient-in.
Step 3 — Parallelize where possible
Overlap contracting and start-up tasks.
Step 4 — Recover the schedule
Build the activation-recovery plan against the timeline.
Output
An activation-step map, the bottleneck, a parallelization plan, and a schedule recovery.