Step 1 · Brief
The question, in writing.
What we do, in detail
Four services, each delivered with its sources named.
Program 01 · Sources, not assertions
Desk research and documentation
Findings are only useful if they can be checked, so we hand back the source and the date for each one rather than a confident summary with nothing behind it. We also report what we could not find, because an absence is information too — and a researcher who quietly omits the gaps leaves a client more certain than the evidence warrants.
Step 2 · Search
Sources identified and logged.
Step 3 · Verify
Cross-checked where possible.
Step 4 · Deliver
Findings, sources and the gaps.
Step 1 · Subject
What is to be followed, and why.
Step 2 · Scope
Which sources, how often.
Step 3 · Copyright
What may be circulated, agreed.
Step 4 · Delivery
Summaries with references.
Program 02 · Summary, not reproduction
Press and publication monitoring
This is the service where the law bites. Reproducing articles in a monitoring report requires a licence from the rightsholders, which many in-house press reviews quietly do not hold. We deliver summaries, references and short citations, which copyright permits; if you hold a licence, tell us and we will work to its terms instead.
Program 03 · Three languages
Writing and editing
Most material arriving for editing is not badly written so much as written for the wrong reader, which is why we ask who will read it before touching a sentence. We will also say when a text needs rewriting rather than correcting, because editing a document whose structure is wrong wastes a budget and still produces something nobody finishes.
Step 1 · Reader
Who it is for, and what they need.
Step 2 · Structure
Fixed before the sentences.
Step 3 · Edit
Changes visible, not silent.
Step 4 · Proof
Final read before release.
Step 1 · Inventory
What in it belongs to others.
Step 2 · Clear
Rights checked or substituted.
Step 3 · Produce
Laid out and proofed.
Step 4 · Hand over
With the rights record.
Program 04 · Rights checked first
Document production
Before a document goes out we check what is in it that belongs to somebody else: photographs, charts, quoted passages, maps. Clearing those is unglamorous and routinely skipped, and it is exactly what turns a finished publication into a problem months later. Where we cannot establish a right, we say so and propose a substitute.
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