Editing for businesses

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. Many drafts bury the answer, but evaluators and executives tend to read from the top and stop once they have what they need, so the order of a document can matter more than any single sentence in it.

It makes the recommendation actionable. We flag where a recommendation is missing an owner, a timeline, a decision, or a next step because readers can’t act on it without them.

It removes the hedging. Professional writing tends to drift toward caution, 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, and whether the organization is it or they. We make those consistent across the whole document.

It gets the mechanics right. We check grammar, usage, punctuation, style-guide compliance, references and cross-references, and tables and figures.

How we work

We tailor the work to your audience and your goals, and we edit in Microsoft Word with tracked changes, so every change is visible and reversible. Wherever there’s a decision that only you can make, we leave a margin comment.

We usually reply to inquiries within a few hours during our support hours.

What we charge

Our rates are hourly, in US dollars, and 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 open a group account and work with the same small team, which learns your house style and your audience and brings that knowledge to everything you send. It suits communications teams, research institutes, and advisory firms with several authors and standards to maintain.

Confidentiality

We share your document only with the people working on it, and we’re happy to sign an NDA for sensitive material. We don’t name clients or quote from their documents publicly.