Authority engine

Authority strategy

Visibility is noise until it repeats on the same subject. Each client owns a small number of topics and we build proof against them.

Northwind Automation

2 pieces of coverage
78/100
Existing coverage40
Quality of coverage70
Frequency of mentions52
Publication diversity50
Spokesperson activity50
Topic coverage spread90

AI adoption for SMEs

HighBuilding

AI only creates value in mid-market businesses when it is applied to one painful process at a time, not bought as a platform.

Evidence: Average 14% reduction in admin hours across deployments in 2026. Proof: Yorkshire food manufacturer case study; Northwind benchmark report.

Sectors: Business Press · Trade Publication · National Media · 5 pieces to date

Founder dependency

HighBuilding

The biggest single risk in a British SME is one person holding an undocumented process in their head.

Evidence: 61% run a critical process on a spreadsheet owned by one individual. Proof: Benchmark data; three named turnaround stories.

Sectors: Business Press · Regional Media · Podcast · 3 pieces to date

Intelligent business systems

MediumExploratory

Software should be judged on decisions removed, not features shipped.

Evidence: Deployment telemetry across 140 customers. Proof: Product methodology.

Sectors: Trade Publication · Online Publication · 1 pieces to date

Harborline Financial

2 pieces of coverage
61/100
Existing coverage40
Quality of coverage72
Frequency of mentions52
Publication diversity50
Spokesperson activity50
Topic coverage spread60

The SME credit gap

HighBuilding

Good businesses are declined because of how they are measured, not how they trade.

Evidence: 72% of approved borrowers had been declined by a high-street bank first. Proof: Internal lending dataset.

Sectors: Business Press · National Media · Trade Publication · 4 pieces to date

Late payment culture

MediumExploratory

Late payment is a transfer of working capital from small firms to large ones.

Evidence: Median 47-day payment lag among borrower customers. Proof: Anonymised borrower payment data.

Sectors: National Media · Business Press · 1 pieces to date

Verdant Estates

1 pieces of coverage
44/100
Existing coverage20
Quality of coverage92
Frequency of mentions36
Publication diversity25
Spokesperson activity50
Topic coverage spread30

Retrofit over new build

HighBuilding

Embodied carbon makes demolition the most expensive decision in development.

Evidence: 68% lower embodied carbon on the Cutlery Works scheme. Proof: Third-party carbon assessment.

Sectors: Trade Publication · Regional Media · Business Press · 2 pieces to date

Town centre regeneration

MediumExploratory

Northern town centres need occupiers, not masterplans.

Evidence: 44,000 sq ft brought back into use in Sheffield. Proof: Cutlery Works letting schedule.

Sectors: Regional Media · Trade Publication · 0 pieces to date