Executive Protection Editing and Proofreading Services

A protection detail runs an advance for a principal's site visit and produces a report describing the venue, noting that security is adequate and that local law enforcement has been notified. On the day, the detail leader who wrote the advance is off rotation, and the team working the visit does not know which of the three entrances was chosen for arrival, which stairwell was identified as the evacuation route, or that the freight lift is the only one that reaches the roof. They improvise, and the principal is held in an unsecured lobby for six minutes.

We edit what executive protection teams produce — advance survey and site assessment reports, protective intelligence summaries and threat assessments, movement and route plans, emergency action and medical evacuation plans, residential and office security surveys, travel security briefings for principals and families, incident and after-action reports, contract and scope documents for protective services, and protocols for handovers between rotating details. Our editors work on the advance a different team reads on the day.

The advance report is written by one person and executed by another, and its failure is a description of a venue rather than a set of decisions the arriving team can act on. We work through these so each decision the advance actually made — which entrance, which route, which holding room, which lift — is stated as a decision with its reasoning, rather than a description of the options that leaves the arriving team to choose again under time pressure; so the primary and the alternate are both named, since an advance offering one route without a stated second leaves a team improvising at exactly the moment the primary is blocked; so specific physical detail that governs movement is recorded — which lift reaches the roof, which stairwell exits to the street rather than an internal courtyard, which door is locked from outside — because these are the facts a team discovers by failing rather than by reading; so any coordination with local law enforcement or venue security is recorded with the name, role and direct number of the person actually spoken to and what they agreed to, given that notified establishes nothing a team can rely on; and so what the advance could not verify is stated plainly, since a team treating an unchecked assumption as a surveyed fact is the specific failure the advance exists to prevent. Advances written this way work for the team that did not write them.

Everything you send is treated in confidence, including principal details, site information and protective plans. We are editors rather than protection specialists, security planners or threat analysts, and we offer no view on protective methodology, threat assessments or operational decisions. What we can do is make sure the advance records decisions rather than descriptions.