Editing for businesses
Proposals, reports, white papers, and client-facing copy, edited by people who read them the way your evaluator, your board, or your client will.
Some documents have a job to do: win the contract, or persuade a board that has forty minutes and eleven items. We edit writing like that with the person who will read it in mind.
What we work on
- Proposals and tender responses
- Consultancy and research reports
- White papers and thought leadership
- Board and committee papers
- Strategy documents and internal standards
- Client-facing copy
What editing does to a business document
It puts the finding first. Most drafts bury the answer, but evaluators and executives read from the top and stop when they have what they need, so the order of the document matters more than any sentence in it.
It makes the recommendation actionable. A recommendation nobody can act on is just a paragraph, so we flag where an instruction is missing an owner, a timeline, a decision, or a next step.
It removes the hedging. Professional writing drifts toward caution, and caution reads as having nothing to say, so we mark where a claim has been softened past the point of usefulness and you decide how far to commit.
It makes many authors sound like one organization. Multi-author documents give themselves away in the small things: capitalization, terminology, how numbers are set, whether the organization is it or they. Consistency like this is invisible when it’s there and obvious when it isn’t.
It gets the mechanics right. Grammar, usage, punctuation, style-guide compliance, references and cross-references, and tables and figures all get checked.
How we work
Every project is handled by a qualified human editor who tailors the work to your audience and your goals. Your editor works in Microsoft Word with tracked changes, so every change is visible and reversible, with margin comments where there’s a decision only you can make.
We reply to inquiries within a few hours during support hours, 08:00 to 19:00 CET.
What we charge
Our rates are hourly, in US dollars. If you’d like an estimate of the time your document will take, get in touch and we’ll give you one.
| Service | What it covers | Rate (USD) |
|---|---|---|
| AI-draft refinement | Editing AI-assisted text so it reads as accurate, on-brand, human writing | $60 / hour |
| AI-draft refinement, specialist | Medical, legal, and technical content | $70 / hour |
| Line editing | Grammar, usage, style-guide compliance, consistency, clarity, references, and proofreading | $60 / hour |
| Line editing, specialist | Medical, legal, and technical content | $70 / hour |
| Formatting and manuscript preparation | Tables of contents, lists of figures, indexes, figure and table formatting, citation style (APA, OSCOLA, Chicago, and others), and template compliance | $70 / hour |
| Developmental editing | Outlines, restructuring, and rewriting sections | $80 / hour |
| Developmental editing, specialist | Medical, legal, and technical content | $90 / hour |
| Writing coaching | One-on-one support from blank page to finished draft, for high-stakes nonfiction | $90 / hour |
| Ghostwriting | Articles, posts, and thought leadership written under your name | $100 / hour |
If you’re working to a fixed budget, tell us and we’ll adjust the scope to fit.
Working with us regularly
Organizations that send us work throughout the year can run a group account: one agreement, one point of contact, the same small team, and a house style we hold and apply across everything you send. This approach suits communications teams, research institutes, and advisory firms with several authors and standards to maintain.
Confidentiality
Your document is shared only with the editor working on it. We’re happy to sign an NDA for sensitive material, and we don’t name clients or quote from their documents publicly.
Tell us what you’re working on
Send the document, or the outline, or the bullet points. We’ll agree the scope with you before quoting.
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