Your research, collected right.

Clinical trials, interview studies, community surveys, program evaluations. Independent REDCap consulting from someone with 10 years of building, fixing and validating projects. Pick what you need from the rack.

SVC-01Get Study Ready · REDCap

Study builds

A new project from a protocol, interview guide, paper form or spreadsheet.

Typical cost$900–2,000
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What do you need?

10 years inside REDCap

I'm Jairo Chavez, a REDCap builder and research data manager. For the past decade I've designed and supported REDCap projects for research teams, hospitals and nonprofits, from a single intake survey to multi-arm longitudinal studies with consent, scheduling and alerts.

I work inside the REDCap your institution or organization already licenses. I build it, test it with dummy data, document what I built, and teach your team to run it without me.

  • e-Consent with signatures
  • Moving projects between institutions
  • Longitudinal cardiology study
  • Infection-prevention audit forms
  • Patient-reported outcome surveys
  • NIH data management & sharing plans

Not just the lab

REDCap is a data collection tool, and plenty of the best projects never touch a specimen. If your study collects information from people, it probably fits.

  1. Clinical & lab studies

    Visit schedules, specimen tracking, adverse events, randomization and data quality checks.

  2. Interviews & focus groups

    Screening and scheduling, consent, interview guides, field notes, recording uploads and transcript tracking in one project.

  3. Community & public surveys

    Anonymous links, QR codes for flyers, several languages, and forms that work on a phone at a health fair.

  4. Program evaluation & QI

    Intake forms, pre/post measures, observation audits, and reports your funder or leadership can read.

  5. Registries & chart review

    Abstraction forms, double data entry and data quality checks so two reviewers' records actually match.

  6. Student & thesis research

    A clean, IRB-ready build at the $90 student rate, plus help getting the data out for analysis.

Services

Six kinds of work, color-coded like specimen tubes. The same care whether you're collecting blood draws or interview notes.

How it works

Same order every time, whatever you're collecting.

  1. 1

    Send a request

    Tell me what you're building or what's broken. Two minutes, no account needed.

    Today
  2. 2

    Free 30-minute call

    We walk through your protocol, forms or existing project and agree on scope.

    Within 2 business days
  3. 3

    Written estimate

    A fixed price or hourly estimate with a timeline. Nothing is billed until you approve it.

    Within 3 business days of the call
  4. 4

    Build, test, hand off

    I build in your REDCap, test with dummy data, walk your team through it, and stay on hand for questions after launch.

    Typically 1–4 weeks

Pricing

Plain rates, written estimates, no surprises. In line with, or below, the external rates many university REDCap cores charge.

Standard rateBilled in 15-min units
$110/ hour
  • Nonprofits & students$90 / hr
  • First consultation (30 min)Free
  • Rush work, under 5 business days+25%

  • Tune-up

    Flat$350

    Review of one existing project with a written list of issues, plus up to 3 hours of fixes.

  • Standard build

    From$900

    A single-arm data-entry or survey project: up to 6 instruments, branching logic, validation, user roles, testing and a handoff session.

  • Advanced build

    From$2,200

    Longitudinal events and arms, repeating instruments, automated survey invitations, alerts, randomization or e-Consent.

  • Migration & imports

    From$1,200

    Moving projects and data to a new REDCap instance, or bulk-importing data from spreadsheets and other systems.

  • Monthly retainer

    10 hrs / mo$1,000

    Ongoing support at a reduced $100/hr, with priority scheduling for retainer clients.

Written estimate firstEvery project gets a scope and price before any billable work starts.

InvoicingInvoices can go to you, your department or your grant.

Scope changesIf the project grows, I re-estimate and you approve before I continue.

Request help

Clinical, interview, survey or evaluation work: tell me about your project. I reply within two business days to set up the free 30-minute call.

Prefer email? jairochavez25@gmail.com

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Questions

My research isn't clinical. Is REDCap still a good fit?

Usually, yes. REDCap handles surveys, interview and focus-group tracking, program evaluations and registries as well as clinical trials, and it keeps identifiable data secure. If another tool would serve you better, I'll tell you on the free call.

Do you host REDCap?

No. REDCap is licensed to institutions and organizations, so I work in the instance you already have. Your REDCap administrator adds me as a user on your project, and I build there.

Will you see our study data?

Builds are done in development mode with dummy records. I only work with production data when your institution has approved my access, and I follow your data-use and privacy rules.

Our project is half-built and messy. Can you help?

Yes, that's what the Tune-up is for. I review the project, list what's wrong and what's risky, and fix the most important things first. Changes to live projects go through draft mode so nothing collected is lost.

Can I budget you into a grant?

Yes. I can give you a scoped estimate for a budget justification and help write the data management and sharing plan.

Do you train our team?

Every build ends with a walkthrough. Separate training sessions for coordinators, data entry staff or new REDCap users are billed hourly.