AI IRB Application Draft
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Why does a research ethics application take three weeks when the study itself takes six? Is it the science that slows it down, or the fact that a committee reads in a completely different order from the one you think in? Boards read risk first, then consent, then procedure. AI IRB Application Draft organises your study into the sections a board actually assesses, so your first submission is not your third.
Short answer: AI IRB Application Draft is a free tool that turns your study plan into a draft ethics application, organised by the sections a review board assesses, covering participants, procedures, risk, consent, data handling, and withdrawal.
No research begins before written approval A draft application is not an approval and confers nothing. Recruitment, consent, and data collection start only after your board or committee has issued written approval, and any change to the approved protocol needs an amendment before it happens. Local boards have their own forms, their own thresholds, and their own definitions, and your institution's human research protection office is the authority on all of it. This tool drafts text for you to submit; it does not assess your study and has no standing whatsoever in the review.
What is AI IRB Application Draft?
AI IRB Application Draft is a drafting tool for research ethics submissions. You describe your study in ordinary terms. It returns text organised into the sections that review boards typically require: purpose, participants and recruitment, procedures, risks and benefits, consent process, data protection, and withdrawal.
It is a translation exercise more than a writing one. Researchers describe studies in terms of hypotheses and analysis. Boards read in terms of who is exposed to what, who consented to it, and what happens to their data. The tool moves your description from the first frame into the second.
Why Use AI IRB Application Draft?
Most applications come back not because the study is problematic but because the form was answered from the researcher's perspective.
- Reorganises the study into the order a board assesses, which is not the order you designed it in.
- Prompts for the sections researchers routinely under answer, such as withdrawal and data retention.
- Forces plain language, which matters because lay members sit on these committees.
- Produces a complete first pass, so your supervisor or ethics adviser can edit rather than interview you.
- Makes an amendment easy to draft when the protocol changes mid study.
The honest limit: it does not know your board's form, your jurisdiction's thresholds, or whether your study needs full review, expedited review, or none. Those are questions for the office that governs you.
How Does AI IRB Application Draft Work?
Describe the study in the prompt box in plain terms. Who takes part, how you will find them, what you will ask them to do and for how long, what could go wrong, how consent will be taken, what data you will hold, where it will live, and how long you will keep it.
Choose your engine from the model selector below the box. AI IRB Application Draft runs on MSB AI, Anthropic Claude AI, OpenAI ChatGPT, Google Gemini, DeepSeek and NVIDIA AI. Long structured documents are a good use for a reasoning heavy engine, and generating twice is worth the extra minute on a submission that takes weeks to turn round.
Work through the advanced options accordion and generate the draft. The output card shows the draft with a live word count, which helps when a form imposes character limits per section. Every draft offers Copy, Listen, Reuse and Download, and exports to DOC, TXT or HTML. DOC is the practical export, because most boards want text pasted into a form or attached as a protocol document. Reuse lets you expand one section, such as the risk assessment, without regenerating the whole application. Every version from this session stays in the activity history panel.
| What you put in the prompt | What changes in the draft |
|---|---|
| Exactly how participants will be found | Recruitment is described in a way a board can assess |
| Any vulnerable group involved | Additional safeguards appear rather than being assumed |
| Where data will be stored and for how long | The data section stops being a single vague sentence |
| "Write for a lay committee member" | Technical vocabulary drops out of the participant facing text |
Anatomy Of An Application A Board Can Assess
Boards read for exposure and permission. These are the sections that decide how long your review takes.
| Section | What the board is checking | Where applications fail |
|---|---|---|
| Participants | Who is exposed, and whether anyone is vulnerable | Vulnerability not acknowledged |
| Procedures | What is actually done to or asked of people | Described as analysis rather than experience |
| Risk | What could go wrong and how it is managed | Claiming no risk at all |
| Consent | How permission is obtained and evidenced | No process for withdrawal after the fact |
What To Put In The Prompt
- The study aim in one plain sentence, without methods jargon.
- Who takes part, how many, and how they will be identified and approached.
- Everything a participant will experience, in order, with times attached.
- Every foreseeable risk, including distress, inconvenience, and loss of privacy.
- The consent process, including who takes consent and when.
- What data is collected, where it is stored, who can see it, and for how long.
- What happens if someone withdraws, at each stage of the study.
- Any incentive or payment, and how it is set.
Describe the experience, not the design Boards are not assessing your hypothesis. Write the procedures section as if you were telling a participant what their afternoon will involve, then let the science sit in the purpose section where it belongs.
Setting Length, Format, And Point Of View
Every control below is on the AI IRB Application Draft page, inside the advanced options accordion.
| Option | What it controls | When to change it | Suggested starting point |
|---|---|---|---|
| Length | How fully each section is developed | Short when your form caps each box tightly | Detailed, since boards prefer completeness here |
| Tone | The register of the writing | Never Persuasive; an application is not a pitch | Professional, plain and even |
| Point of View | Whether procedures are described as we or impersonally | First Person where the form asks what you will do | First Person, which most forms expect |
| Format | The layout of the draft | Bullet Points for a form with short boxes | Sections with Headings, matching a board's structure |
| Use Markdown Formatting | Whether symbols mark headings | Off if you are pasting into a web form | Off |
| Include Examples | Adds illustrative detail | Off, because invented specifics are risky in a submission | Off |
| Include Call-to-Action | Adds a closing prompt | Off; a board is not being sold anything | Off |
| Humanize Voice | Loosens technical phrasing | On, since lay members read these documents | On |
| Creativity | How far the text departs from your description | Keep it low; invented procedures are a serious problem | Around 15 |
| Custom Instructions | Free text for anything the menus miss | Paste your board's section headings if you have them | "Use my board's section names, plain language, no procedure I did not describe" |
Key Features
Board ordered sections
The draft arrives in the order a committee reads, which shortens the distance between submission and approval.
Risk stated properly
Prompts for distress, inconvenience, and privacy risk, not just physical harm, which is where most applications are thin.
Lay readable text
Turns methods vocabulary into language a non specialist committee member can assess.
Section level rework
Reuse one section to expand it after a board asks for more, without disturbing the rest.
Form friendly export
Export to DOC to attach as a protocol, or copy section by section into an online form.
What A Finished Draft Reads Like
A typical result opens with a short purpose section written for a non specialist. Participants follows, with the population, the number, the inclusion and exclusion criteria, and how people will be approached. Procedures reads chronologically from first contact to final debrief, with durations attached.
Risks and benefits comes next, naming each risk honestly and pairing it with a management step. Consent describes who takes it, when, in what form, and how it is recorded. Data covers collection, storage, access, sharing, and retention. Withdrawal closes it, saying what happens to someone's data at each stage if they change their mind.
The Rules That Sit Above This Tool
Everything in this section beats anything the tool produces.
- Your board's own form, definitions, and thresholds, which vary between institutions.
- National and regional research governance law, which differs by country.
- Data protection law covering the personal data you will hold.
- Discipline specific codes of conduct and any professional body requirements.
- Sponsor and funder conditions attached to the grant supporting the work.
- Site permissions where research happens somewhere you do not control, such as a school, clinic, or workplace.
Never claim a study has no risk Almost every study involving people carries some burden, even if it is only time and the possibility of discomfort. An application claiming zero risk reads as one where the researcher has not thought about it, and that impression costs more time than the honest paragraph would have.
Application Or Protocol?
| Question | Ethics application | Study protocol |
|---|---|---|
| Written for | The review board | The research team and sponsor |
| Emphasis | Participants, risk, and consent | Design, procedures, and analysis |
| Language | Plain, readable by lay members | Technical |
| Changes require | An approved amendment | Version control and team agreement |
Before You Submit Checklist
- ✅ Every section of your board's actual form is answered.
- ✅ No procedure appears in the draft that you did not describe.
- ✅ Vulnerable groups, if any, are named with their safeguards.
- ✅ Risk is stated honestly, with a management step for each item.
- ✅ Consent, withdrawal, and data retention are each fully covered.
- ✅ Participant facing text is readable by a non specialist.
- ✅ Your supervisor, principal investigator, or ethics adviser has reviewed it.
- ✅ Nothing has started, and nothing will, until written approval arrives.
Read a previously approved application Ask a colleague for an approved application from your own board. Half an hour with a document that already passed tells you more about local expectations than any general guidance.
Pros And Cons
What works well
- Reframes a study from the researcher's view into the board's view.
- Prompts the sections applications most often under answer.
- Produces lay readable text without you translating each sentence by hand.
- Free with no account, which helps students facing their first submission.
What to watch
- It does not know your board's form, thresholds, or local law.
- It cannot judge whether your study is ethical or which review route applies.
- A complete looking draft can still omit something your institution requires.
- Approval is a human decision that no drafting tool influences.
AIToolsay is a free collection of AI tools for research and writing, none of which requires an account. Ethics work spans several documents, and the AI Research Ethics Statement handles the short declaration you will need at publication, while the AI Data Availability Statement covers how your data will later be described to readers. You can run AI IRB Application Draft as often as your revisions need, at no cost.
Frequently Asked Questions
Can I start recruiting once I have a good draft?
No. Nothing starts until your board issues written approval. A draft has no standing, and starting early is a governance breach that can end a project.
Is the AI IRB Application Draft available at no cost?
Yes. AI IRB Application Draft is free to use with no account, and the engine behind the draft is yours to pick.
Will it fill in my institution's form?
It writes the text. You paste it into your board's form. Give it your board's section headings in Custom Instructions and the mapping becomes much easier.
Does it know whether my study needs full or expedited review?
No. Review routes are defined locally and by law. Ask your human research protection office or ethics administrator, who will tell you in a single email.
How do I write the risk section without sounding alarming?
State each risk plainly and pair it with what you will do about it. Boards respond well to honest risk with a management step and badly to claims that no risk exists.
Can it draft my participant information sheet and consent form?
It can draft text, but those documents usually have institution specific templates and required clauses. Start from your board's template and use the tool to write into it.
What about amendments to an approved study?
Draft the amendment the same way, describing only what changes and why, then submit it and wait for approval before implementing anything.
Ethics review is often experienced as an obstacle, and it goes far better when the application is written for the people who read it. Describe the experience, be honest about the burden, and let the science sit where it belongs. Thank you for reading, and good luck with your submission.
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