The writing

Somebody scores your bid against a published scheme. We write to win it.

Whoever scores it will never visit your site, never meet your team, and never hear the thing you'd say if you were in the room. They read what you wrote, mark it against that scheme, and move on to the next one. We work frontier AI harder than anyone you've met, and one named person checks every line of it before it reaches you. Below is that job at different sizes, from marking a draft you have already written to writing the whole submission.

Different documents, the same job

  • Your draft, marked: for a firm that has written it already

    You have written it. We read it the way the buyer will, against the scheme they published, and tell you where the marks are going and where they are not. Cheapest way to find out that an answer is answering the wrong question. You still send it in as your own work, and nothing about it becomes ours.

  • The first-stage questionnaire: for a firm that keeps getting screened out

    A public tender usually has a gate before the competition: a questionnaire on policies, insurances, accounts and past work that decides who is allowed to bid at all. It's scored, it's unforgiving, and it's the same set of questions every time. Getting it right once is worth more than any single bid, because it is the door every later bid comes through. This gate does not weigh your answers against anyone else's. One question below the minimum, or a total under half, and the rest of your bid is never read.

  • The full submission: for a firm entering a market or defending a contract

    We take the buyer's scoring scheme apart first, so every answer is written to earn the marks that question actually carries, and every factual line is labelled with the evidence behind it. It comes back for you to change, approve and submit as your own. Holding the contract already is not a defence. In one council's refresh of a homecare framework, two of the fourteen providers already doing the work were removed for failing to meet the standard, and three firms that had never held it got in. How we work, in full.

  • Charity grant work: for a small team with more applications than hands

    Charity funding is rarely one application. It is a calendar of them, with different funders wanting the same story told four different ways. We work alongside whoever runs it, for an agreed stretch of time, and take the writing off their desk. The tone matters here as much as the evidence, and it is not the tone a tender wants.

  • One grant application: for anyone going for a single named fund

    One fund, one deadline, one application, written to what that funder actually asks for rather than to what the last one did. Funders publish their criteria and their priorities, and most applications answer the priorities they wish were there. This is the same work as a tender submission on a smaller frame.

  • Award entries: for a firm that has never put itself forward

    An award programme opens and shuts on its own calendar, and nobody posts that calendar to you. Some of what calls itself an award is an entry fee with a ceremony attached. We read which programmes in your sector are real, which of them your evidence can carry, and then we write the entry. Judges get a fraction of the words a tender gives you.

Who this is for, and who it is not

For a firm that has found something worth going for and does not have the days to write it properly. If you still don't know whether it is worth entering, that question comes first: Before you commit.

Where to start

The first read is free, and it is the same reading that starts any of the work above. Ask what is out there for a firm like yours, or name the tender, grant or award you are going for. If what you need isn't on this page, the form has a space for you to say so in your own words.

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