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We keep a record of what your reader asked for last time.

Academic work, career documents, and the systems behind an organisation. Every engagement starts from that record, before the work begins.

Most work of this kind starts from a blank page.

Ours starts from a file.

The record

Everyone gets the brief. Almost nobody has the third layer.

Every piece of work is judged against three things, and they are not the same thing.

01

The brief

What you were formally asked for. Everyone has this, and everyone works from it.

02

The guidance

What the person receiving it actually wants. Usually issued after the brief, usually read once, and usually where the marks and the decisions really sit.

03

The standard

What that reader rewarded and penalised the last time, and the time before. This is the layer we keep, and it is the one almost nobody has.

The academic record

Never leave a fact standing alone. Follow it with its implication for this organisation and this theory.

Every claim needs a named, researched example with a number attached to it.

State which item is most significant and why. A list is not a judgement.

Every framework and recommendation needs its downside stated, and the balance judged.

The word limit is absolute. Every addition must be paid for by a deletion.

Every one of these came from a marker. None came from a textbook.

The career record

Two pages. The third page is read by nobody and it dilutes the first two.

Reverse chronological, because that is the order the screening system expects to parse.

Standard section headers, or your experience gets filed under nothing at all.

Nothing that matters goes in a header or a footer. The parser does not read them.

Plain-text extraction checked before it is sent, because that is what the system actually sees.

Every one of these came from a system that screens you before a person ever does.

What we do

Three kinds of work, one method.

One

Academic

Priced on the brief and the timeline

Coursework, reports, dissertations, research work, and the preparation that lets you account for it.

The university sets the brief. Your lecturer usually issues guidance after it, and that guidance is where most of the marks actually sit: the section word counts, the models you are expected to name, the order the recommendations have to go in. It also gets revised, and the revisions contradict each other. We work from the version in force, dated.

The work is written against that guidance rather than a generic template, and referencing follows your school's own named guide rather than a house style sheet.

You will also be able to explain every choice in the work. Why this framework and not the other one. Where the evidence came from. What the limitations are. That conversation is part of the engagement, not an extra.

There is no published price for academic work, and the reason is not evasion. A two thousand word report due in three weeks and the same report due in three days are not the same job, and a dissertation is neither of them. The price follows the brief and the time you have left. Send us both and you have a figure the same day.

Two

Career

Priced on the brief

Resumes, CVs, cover letters and LinkedIn.

A resume is read fast, by someone deciding which pile it belongs in. Most are written as a record of what a person has done. The ones that work are written for the specific decision being made about you.

We start by reading what you already have and telling you plainly what it is costing you. Then we rebuild it for the role you are actually going for, not for a template.

That first read is a written audit, and it costs nothing. Section by section: what is working, what is quietly costing you interviews, and what we would rebuild. You get it before anything is agreed and before any money moves, and most people can act on it whether or not they go on to work with us.

Three

Business and systems

Priced on the build

Business plans, proposals, organisational documents, and the systems behind them.

A business plan is not written for you. It is written for one reader: a bank, an investor, a board, a licensing body. Each of them opens it looking for a different thing first. We write it for the person who has to say yes.

Not everything an organisation needs is a document. We were asked recently to look at an intake form. Eight sections, filled in by hand, carried between departments, typed again at the other end. What we built was the same eight sections as one digital pathway: questions that appear only when they apply, a record that writes itself, and routing so every completed form arrives with the person who has to act on it without anyone forwarding anything. Distribution by a branded code. Ownership transferred on delivery, so it belongs to them and not to us.

Intake, referral, application, registration, request. Any process where the same information gets written twice.

How it works

Five steps, and the first one costs nothing.

1

Consultation

Free, and before anything is agreed. We look at what you have and what it has to do.

2

Scope and terms

What is being built, by when, and what it costs, in writing. Nothing starts before this is agreed.

3

The record is read

Everything we hold on your reader, whether that is a marker, a hiring panel or a board, goes into the brief before the work begins.

4

The check

Work is reviewed against your reader's stated requirements and against what we agreed to deliver, before it comes to you.

5

Handover

You receive the work, and the conversation that lets you carry it.

Questions

The things people ask before they write to us.

What will it cost?

It follows the brief and the time you have left. Send us both and you have a figure the same day, before anything is agreed and before any money moves.

Can you make my deadline?

We will tell you before you pay. If the time left does not allow the standard we work to, we say so and decline. We would rather lose the work than hand you something we would not sign.

Where do you work?

Across the Caribbean. Everything runs by WhatsApp and email, so where you are makes no difference to how the work gets done. We quote in TTD, GYD or USD, and we tell you how payment works for your island before anything is agreed.

What if we are not the right fit?

Then we say so at the consultation, which is why it comes first and why it is free. Some work is not ours to take, and knowing which is part of the service.

What stays with you

The intelligence, the structure, and the preparation.

The document is the smallest part of it.

What stays is the research, the architecture, the editing, and the preparation that lets you account for the work yourself, in a room, without notes. That part does not expire when the work is delivered.

What we hold about a client stays with us. We do not publish client documents. We do not name a client who has not offered their name.

A consultation before we begin.

Tell us what you are carrying and when it is due. We will tell you plainly whether we are the right people for it.