Corporate Communications Editing and Proofreading Services

Corporate communications is responsible for what an organisation says about itself when it is not selling anything. Announcements, positions, the boilerplate at the foot of every release, the answer to a question about something awkward — all of it read by journalists, investors, employees, regulators and competitors, each looking for a different thing. The function is judged on consistency, and consistency is impossible when eleven people are speaking with no agreed account of what the organisation is and what it will not say.

We edit what corporate communications teams produce — corporate narrative and message house documents, boilerplate and company descriptions, press releases and announcements, executive quotes and their approval process, position statements on contested issues, media Q&A and lines-to-take documents, spokesperson briefing material, corporate website and about copy, annual review and corporate reporting narrative, employee-facing versions of external announcements, partner and stakeholder communications, awards and recognition material, and communications policy and approval workflows. Our editors work on the documents that keep many voices consistent.

The message house is the document that does this work, and most organisations have one nobody uses. It fails because it is built as a hierarchy of approved phrases rather than as an argument: a roof of aspirational language, three pillars of capability, proof points underneath, all of it in a register no human speaks. We rebuild these so the core statement is something a spokesperson could say aloud in an interview without sounding briefed; so each pillar is supported by facts rather than adjectives, with the specific number, customer or date attached, since a proof point that cannot be stated is not one; so the document includes the questions the organisation does not want asked, with an answer that is true, because a message house that only equips people for friendly questions is abandoned during the first difficult one; and so it says explicitly what the organisation will not claim. A message house tested by having someone hostile read it aloud is worth ten that were approved in a workshop.

Everything you send is treated in confidence, including unannounced material, positions in development and executive correspondence. We are editors rather than communications strategists or legal advisers, and we offer no view on positioning, disclosure obligations or reputational risk. What we can do is make the language consistent and usable by everyone who speaks for the organisation.