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Our values

A value is a decision you have already made against your own interest.

Anything that only ever agrees with what would grow revenue is not a value, it is a preference. So each of the six below is stated with the decision it has forced — the order refused, the feature not built, the comparison we lose on purpose.

The six, in one line each
01Say the inconvenient thing firstexclusions beside promises, bad news before good.
02Refuse without negotiatingno discretion, no counter-offer, nothing charged.
03Publish the measurement, not the impressionnumbers with method, including the ones that got worse.
04Build the constraint, do not ask for the behaviourconfidentiality by architecture, not by good intentions.
05Recommend the cheaper thing when it helps morefeedback, a plan or a guide over a finished piece.
06Pay for judgement, not for volumeper piece, with uplift for quality only.

Each one, with the cost attached.

Select a value to see how it is enforced, and what holding it has cost.

Value 01

Say the inconvenient thing first

The exclusion goes next to the guarantee, on the same page, in the same size type. Bad news reaches you before it reaches its own resolution — because the thing that damages people is not a problem, it is finding out late.

In practice, this means
Refund exclusions print beside the refund guarantees, not in a separate clause
A failed restaffing attempt messages you within two hours, before we have a fix
Critical reviews sit above positive ones on the reviews page
What it has cost

The "do not choose us if" list on our own why-us page, which tells five kinds of prospective client to go elsewhere. Marketing has asked twice for it to move below the fold. It has not moved.

Reviews, critical first

Where the values conflict, and which one wins.

Values only mean something when two of them collide. These are the collisions we actually hit, with the rule for resolving each.

Value 01 vs Value 05

Saying the inconvenient thing, versus being useful.

A student four days from a 10,000-word deadline needs to hear that it is not realistic. They also need something they can actually do tonight.

Rule: Say the hard thing first, then stay in the conversation with a concrete alternative. Candour without a next step is just abandonment.
Value 02 vs Value 05

Refusing flatly, versus helping the person in front of you.

Someone asking us to sit an exam is usually in genuine trouble. The refusal is absolute; their situation is still real.

Rule: The refusal never softens. The response includes the free resources and, where it exists, a pointer to legitimate support.
Value 03 vs Value 04

Publishing measurements, versus confidentiality.

The most persuasive evidence would be real orders, real briefs and real reviewer notes. Almost none of it can be shown.

Rule: Confidentiality wins every time. Published evidence is aggregate figures and commissioned samples — never a client’s work, anonymised or not.
Value 06 vs commercial reality

Paying for judgement, versus being affordable.

Per-piece fees plus a second read plus an audit sample is an expensive way to produce work, and students are not a wealthy market.

Rule: The second read is not negotiable; the price is. Where a student cannot afford the work, the honest answer is editing, feedback, or the free library — not a cheaper piece with the checks removed.

Hold us to these in writing, not in spirit.

Where a value affects what you are owed, it appears as a clause in the terms or the refund policy. If it only exists on this page, treat it as an intention rather than a promise.