Before you commit

Some bids are worth your days and some are not. We find out which is which.

There are two ways to do the reading before you spend the days, and one of them is free. The next step often costs days: reading the pack properly, working out what your evidence can carry, deciding whether to enter at all. Most of that cost lands before anyone can tell you whether the answer is yes.

Two ways to find out first

The Evidence Read: for anyone who wants to know what is out there

The free one, and the one every job starts with. Your web address is the whole ask. We read what a buyer can look up about your firm without asking you, and what is open to a firm like yours right now. Dan Hesketh's name goes on it. Get your free read.

The deeper work: for a firm with a real decision to make

This is paid work, and it starts where the public record stops. The record has edges: the scoring scheme inside a tender pack, the dates buried in contracts your firm already holds, the letter that came back the last time you lost. None of that is public, and reading it is work the free read can't do. We agree the price before you say yes, and then it holds.

Every firm you bid against leaves a public trail of its own. Once we are working with your firm, we can read theirs the way we read yours. An NDA is normal here, not a hurdle.

Who this is for, and who it is not

For a firm weighing up a contract, tender, grant or award and deciding whether to spend the days.
Not for a firm that's already decided and wants the writing done: that is The writing.
Not for standing dates and renewals: that is Certificates and deadlines.

Where to start

The first read is free, with no obligation, and it is the same reading any paid job starts from. 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.

Get your free read