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Tell us which product you want to hear about and where to write. Nothing is on sale yet, and this is how you hear first.

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    Choose the product and leave your name, business email and organization.

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    We use your details to write to you about that product.

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    When it opens, we write to you.

Engagement basics

Every engagement is scoped in writing before work starts, and every engagement is under NDA.

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Choose a slot that suits you for a first conversation. It is a conversation about the decision in front of you, not a sales presentation.

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Before and after you write

Who reads the message, and what comes back?

A senior practitioner reads every enquiry: the kind of person who would do the work or would be asked about it. The first reply is not a pitch. It says what we understood the decision to be, asks what we could not tell from your note and, if there is something to talk about, suggests a first conversation. If your question is better served elsewhere, by a published piece, a tool or another kind of firm, the reply says so.

What makes an enquiry easy to answer

  • The decision or problem, in a sentence or two
  • Who owns the result, by role
  • What has been tried, and why it stopped
  • What cannot move: a deadline, a regulator, a system that stays
  • The systems or data involved, in plain words
  • What you would like to leave the first conversation with
  • Anything sensitive, flagged but not detailed

What is a first conversation for?

It is for

  • Hearing the decision in your words, and who answers for it.
  • Finding out what has been tried and what stopped it.
  • Saying plainly whether this is a problem we can help with.
  • Agreeing what a written scope would need to cover.

It is not for

  • A pitch deck or a tour of our services.
  • A proposal produced on the call.
  • A diagnosis of systems we have not seen.
  • A commitment from either side.

You give some of your own time and a senior person's, and you may hear that we are not the right firm. In return you get a clear next step or a clear no, and nothing is sold to you on the call.

How is your information handled?

What you send is used to reply to you. The record of an enquiry stores no IP address or browser details, our staff see it only as far as their work needs, and it is deleted automatically when the retention period set for the form ends. Our work is always done under NDA, so if the subject is sensitive, say so in the note and keep the detail for the call.

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When is another route better?

If you want to test your position before you talk to anyone, the free tools run in your browser and send nothing to us. If you want to see how an engagement runs first, how we work takes it from first call to handover. If your question is not about a project, Contact lists the right address for each kind.

What do buyers ask before they write to us?

What happens after I send my note?

A senior practitioner reads it and replies in person. The reply says what we understood the decision to be, asks what we could not tell from your note and, if there is something to discuss, suggests a first conversation. It is not a pitch.

Do I need a defined scope before I write?

No. A short description of the decision or problem is enough, with the role that owns the result and what has been tried. We write the scope after the first conversation, if there is a fit, because a scope written beforehand describes the wrong problem.

Is the first conversation a sales call?

No. It is for hearing the decision in your words, finding out what has been tried, and saying plainly whether we can help. You get no pitch deck, no proposal produced on the call and no commitment from either side. You may hear that we are not the right firm.

Can I put something confidential in my first message?

Say that the subject is sensitive and keep the detail for the call. What you send is used to reply to you, the record stores no IP address or browser details, and it is deleted automatically when the retention period set for the form ends. Every engagement is under NDA.