Finding the money is the first job.
The first read is free.
Councils and funders publish what they buy and what they paid. Awarding bodies publish what is open and who it is open to. Contracts name the certificates a supplier has to hold, and the date they run out. None of it is short, and none of it is sent to you. It is also the record the firms you compete against can open.
That is what the Evidence Read is for. You give us your web address, we read every public record that carries your firm's name and every one that should, and we write up what we found on a page we build for your firm alone.
Your page opens on whatever the reading finds worth going for, and whatever it finds that needs protecting. Then where the public record stops. Then what we would do about it. If everything is in order and there is nothing worth going for, we tell you that and sell you nothing.
Want to see what's out there? That is exactly what the read is for. Going for a tender, grant or award already? Name it, and we read your evidence against what it actually asks for. And if you have named one and the honest answer is do not enter this one, that is the answer you get, with what would have to change first.
One read answers the question you bring it, whether that's a named tender, grant or award, or just "what's out there for us?". If what you actually need is ongoing help with certificates and deadlines, that's a different service. See Certificates and deadlines.
What happens when you ask
The reading runs on frontier models, wider and faster than any person could manage by hand, and Dan Hesketh puts his name on every read, including yours.
- You fill in the short form below. A minute, maybe two.
- We read your website, your certificates (an ISO standard, a sector badge, that kind of thing), your past work, who has been buying what you sell and who won it last time, what is open for firms like yours right now, and whatever else is sitting out there with your name on it.
- We come back to you the same working day if you ask during UK office hours, the next working day if not, and tell you when your page will be ready.
When the record is thin
Sometimes the public record is thin. That's not a dead end, and we won't leave you with a shrug. If we can't see enough to judge, we'll tell you exactly what's missing, and if you want, we'll set up a short call and get the rest from you directly. A thin public record is worth knowing about in itself. It is the version of your firm everybody else is working from.
The deeper work starts in your own files
Everything above is what anyone can see from outside, and it stops where outside sight stops. The rest sits in documents you already own and have never had a reason to read end to end, and the reading carries on past the point where everyone else has to stop.
The tender pack. The scoring scheme is inside it, weightings and all. We work to that, not to a guess at it.
The contracts you have already signed. Somewhere in one of them is a thing you agreed to hold, with a date attached. Nobody reads all of a framework agreement. We do, and we tell you which one bites first.
The letter they sent you when you lost. It says more than it looks like it says, and most firms file it and never read it twice. It is the cheapest thing you already own that tells you what to write next time.
Reading the firms you bid against
The firms you bid against leave the same public trail you do. Once we are working on your firm, we can read your competitors the way we read you. An NDA is normal here, not a hurdle. What you send stays off shared systems, is used only for your work, never trains anything, and is deleted on a schedule you can see.
It is free because it is the same reading we would do before any paid work, and it is the best possible start to a conversation. If it shows something worth going for, we write it for you and you send it in as your own. If it shows something worth fixing, we tell you what we would do. You will know what it costs before you decide anything. There is no separate form for any of this. Ask for the free read, say what you have got, and we will take it from there.