Quality Audits
Is this artefact good enough to send?
Send the proposal, tender response, deck, or model with a short brief. You get a scored report naming the specific changes to make, and which ones should stop it going out, with a target of 2 working days.
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£1,050 standard, £1,250 same day, excluding VATYour answers stay in your browser, except the email address Stripe needsYour artefact is deleted on delivery
A question before you start? Write to qualityaudits@apexedgesalesengineering.com.
When it is worth it
Your buyer reads what you sent, not what you meant
An evaluator scores the page in front of them. A placeholder left in a sizing table, a performance claim with no test conditions, or a tender response which misses the issuer's mandated format each cost more than the week the document took to write, and none of them is visible to the team which wrote it.
Inside most teams the last check is a senior colleague who had an hour and did not object. A quality audit is a full read by someone outside the deal, against a standard set before your document arrived, while there is still time to act on it.
Teams use it before a proposal, a technical solution, or a tender or security questionnaire response goes to a customer; before an executive or board deck; before a landing page or campaign goes live; and before a cost model reaches the customer's finance team.
How it works
Four steps, and 1 of them is ours
- 01
Complete the brief
Four steps in your browser. Nothing is transmitted while you work, and the form saves your draft on your own device.
- 02
Pay, and send it with your artefact
The form produces a brief file, takes you to Stripe to pay, and opens a pre-addressed email. You attach both and send.
- 03 | Ours
We acknowledge and confirm the date
We confirm the date in writing. It is a target, and if it is going to move we tell you before it passes.
- 04
You get the report
One PDF, with the findings and the fixes.
What you can send
Six kinds of artefact, each audited on its own terms
Every artefact is audited by its shape rather than its subject, so a cost model is not marked down for lacking a storyline. If you are unsure which kind yours is, tell us what it is and we will say.
Proposals and responses
Document
A proposal, statement of work, specification, or tender or security questionnaire response, assessed for purpose, audience fit, evidence standard, structure, and recommendation quality.
Decks
Presentation
A customer deck, executive briefing, or board pack, assessed for decision clarity, commercial consequence, storyline, evidence, and slide-level quality.
Pages and campaigns
Copy
A landing page, product or pricing page, campaign, or article, assessed for specificity, usefulness, proof, clarity, and whether it holds up when skimmed.
Trackers
Register
A risk register, requirement list, objection log, or readiness checklist, assessed for completeness against its source, ownership, currency, evidence, and prioritisation.
Numbers
Model
A cost model, pricing model, sizing tool, or capacity plan, assessed for disclosed assumptions, a sourced baseline, sensitivity, auditability, and stated units.
Drawings
Diagram
An architecture, integration, process, or data flow diagram, assessed for the question it answers, notation and key, boundaries, flow correctness, and legibility.
The report
Every issue ends with its fix
Each issue names the problem rather than the symptom, says why it matters for this reader and this purpose, and ends with the specific fix. A reviewer checks every finding and takes responsibility for the report, and no report reaches you unreviewed. Every audit is full, with no lighter version, so a report on a revised draft can be read directly against the first.
The example is an excerpt, written for a fictional company, so every finding can be shown as it was written.
Boundaries
What it does not do
A report says whether a claim is supported, sourced, and bounded, and not whether it is true. It does not test an architecture, reproduce a benchmark, or check that a model's numbers are right, and it gives no legal, regulatory, or tax opinion.
It certifies nothing: it never states or implies compliance, conformance, certification, or legal assurance against any standard, and names none. It cannot promise that an artefact will win a deal or pass an evaluation.
A report finds the issues which most limit the artefact, not every issue in it. It reads only what you send and what the brief tells us, so a thin brief produces a more general report, and scoring involves judgement at the margin.
The Service Description sets out the scope and the limits in full.
Before you send
What to check first
- You must be entitled to send the artefact, including anything in it which belongs to your customer, such as an issuer's questions or a customer's control posture. Check any non-disclosure agreement first.
- Material reaches us by email, from your own mail program. There is no upload portal today.
- For a model, send the live workbook. A PDF of a model hides the construction the audit tests.
- For a tender or security questionnaire response, include the issuer's requirement list and mandated format. Without them, requirement coverage cannot be checked.
- Send the file itself, not a link to a system which needs a login.
- The service is for businesses, not consumers.
Your material
Your artefact is deleted when the report is sent
The artefact, the brief, and any supporting material are removed from our systems on delivery, so your commercial documents sit with us for days rather than years.
We keep our own report and a record of the engagement, for the periods in the Privacy Notice. Plan for the consequence: after delivery we cannot re-read the artefact or compare a later draft against it. A clarification which needs the artefact means sending it to us again.
Price
£1,050 standard, £1,250 same day
Flat price per artefact, whatever its length, excluding VAT. You pay when you make the request, and a fee is not refunded once paid. The same-day rules are on the pricing page.