How an engagement runs
Independent, written and vendor neutral.
Independence is the product
A consultancy that also sells guards has a reason to find a guard problem, and one that also sells hardware has a reason to find a hardware problem. We take no referral fee, no commission and no manufacturer margin on anything we put in a report. If that ever changes you will be told plainly and in writing before an engagement starts, rather than finding it out afterward.
What happens next
- A short call or a couple of emails to set scope and work out whether we are the right fit for the property.
- A written scope of work with the fee stated in it before anything starts.
- The survey, on site, at the hours that matter rather than the hours that are convenient.
- The report, then a walk through it with whoever has to approve the spend.
What a security survey delivers
- An executive summary an owner or a board can read in four minutes, with the priority order at the top.
- A findings register. Each item scored on likelihood and consequence, with the countermeasure, the function it serves, and a cost band against it.
- A marked site plan and dated photographs of every finding.
- A sequence split by what it costs you: the items that need only a decision, the items that need a purchase order, and the items that need a capital request.
- Draft procedure wherever the finding is a procedure problem, so you are not left to write it yourself.
Confidentiality
Security survey work necessarily involves sensitive detail: floor plans, camera and sensor positions, shift patterns, key holders, and every weak point we find. That material is treated as confidential, it is not published or reused, and no client is named in marketing without written permission. Where a written engagement agreement exists, its confidentiality terms govern over this policy.
Fees
A first conversation costs nothing, and the fee for anything past that is fixed and written into the scope of work before any work starts.