A fixed-price consultation on a single publication in progress. You send your draft as it is; we spend ninety minutes working through its structure, format, and audience together; within three working days you have a memo with the decisions. For think tanks, foundations, and research institutions.
Maybe you’ve caught yourself thinking:
If one of these sounds familiar, the clinic is built for exactly this moment: the material exists, and the way forward doesn’t – yet.
Outlines, fragments, and ugly working drafts are the normal input here. I read it before we meet: up to ~30 pages in full; for longer documents, you mark the sections that matter most, and I read the rest the way your busiest reader will – for structure, argument, and what stands out.
A 90-minute working session on a call: structure, format, audience, and what should become visual. You bring the questions; I bring eighteen years of publication design and a first reader's honesty.
Within three working days: the decisions we made, the structure we arrived at, and concrete next steps. Short enough to be read, clear enough to act on.
A 30-minute call two to three weeks later, once the ideas have settled and the work has moved. We look at where you are and adjust course if needed.
Clarity you can act on: a structure that fits your material, a format decision, a sharper sense of your reader, and a plan for what becomes visual – documented in the memo, because good decisions fade faster than anyone expects.
And often, something less expected. Most publications don’t lack material; they lack recognition of it. The dataset hiding in an old presentation, the argument buried in chapter three, the report that wants to be a slide deck. Part of every session is excavation.
The clinic is not editing: I won’t correct your text or work through it line by line. It’s about whether the publication is built right – structure, format, audience, and what becomes visual.
It’s also not a design commission, and it doesn’t oblige you to one. The memo is yours: take it to your in-house team, to another designer, or execute it yourself.
And some projects turn out to need a longer journey rather than a single visit. That has a name too: project accompaniment.
The pre-read, the session, the memo, and the check-in. No hourly meter, no obligations after.
Full close reading of long drafts is available at additional cost, just ask.
After you book, I’ll reply within one working day with a session slot and ask for your draft – send it as it is. Outlines, fragments, and ugly working drafts are the normal input here.