No proof we cannot show you
No client logos and no testimonials anywhere in this group, because we do not hold written permission for most of them.
- Costs us: the easiest credibility there is
What we believe
Six positions, and what each one costs us.
A value with no cost is a preference. Each of the six below names what holding it has cost this group.
A letter from the partnersHow we work
If one of these stops being true, it comes off this page rather than being quietly reworded.
The test
- Every position
- Has a costNamed on the same line as the belief.
- Every claim
- Has a sourceOr it does not go on the site.
- Every number
- Has a dateAn undated figure is a decoration.
The six
Positions we have actually paid for.
The charity never has to earn its keep
Ventures and initiatives are never counted together, and the nonprofit arm carries no paid staff.
- Costs us: a bigger headline number
Say what is broken before somebody finds it
Every venture page on this site carries a section on what is not finished, including the stale sites and the contradictory inventory counts.
- Costs us: the shine
A partner answers, or nobody does
Partnership, affiliate and career enquiries are read by the two partners, and answered in writing within five working days.
- Costs us: speed, on a bad week
Accessibility is not a compliance exercise
Every page in this estate is checked for contrast, heading order and keyboard reach before it ships, at five viewport sizes including one at enlarged text.
- Costs us: work on every single page
No page we cannot rebuild ourselves
No content management system and no page builder. Every page in this estate is a static file generated from source we hold, so nobody can lock us out of our own words. The database and the hosting are bought from Supabase and Vercel like everyone else's, and saying otherwise would be the sort of claim this page exists to avoid.
- Costs us: a week of engineering a month on plumbing no reader ever sees
These are testable.
Every one of them shows up somewhere on this site, and you are welcome to check.