Assessments · Fixed scope, fixed date, one price

The assessment, finished, on the date.

Tell us the decision and the place. We agree the scope, the date and one fixed price per assessment, agreed before work starts. The system does the reading. A named analyst makes the judgment and signs it off. You buy a finished assessment, not hours or seats.

Order an assessment → How we sell the work
Scoped in one working dayOne price, agreed firstSigned off by a named analyst
Assessment cover sheetSigned off
Illustrative
Product
Country risk assessment
Question
Should we open the Lagos office?
Scope
One city, one office, people and operations · agreed in writing
Due
The date agreed at scoping
Price
One fixed price, agreed before work starts
Format
Word report and map, on your template
Key judgmentsConfidence
Robbery risk to staff commuting after darkLikely · 0.72
Operations disrupted by announced protests this quarterUnlikely · 0.31
No official crime figures for the districtGap · named
The answer: yes, with three conditionsRecommended
Signed off by a named analystSecond analyst read · sources attached
Scope › Collect › Verify › Assess › Sign offNot a client document

Example cover sheets · illustrative

<10 minutesA country assessment that took two to five business days (Deloitte)
1 dayFrom your question to a scope, a date, a quote and a named analyst
DaysTo most assessments, not weeks. Verification the same day
~130Countries already watched, in about 30 languages, before we start
2 sourcesBefore a claim is asserted. Gaps are named, not papered over
The catalog

Six assessments. Each one a defined product.

Pick the one that fits the decision in front of you. If none does, send the question anyway. Most questions turn out to be one of these.

Security assessmentDays

A site, seen from outside

One site, facility or venue. Remote first, on site when it changes the answer.

  • The four rings around it: perimeter, approaches, neighborhood and region
  • The hours trouble actually happens there, learned from its own incident history
  • Weaknesses ranked by how much exposure each fix removes for what it costs
WORDMAPSHEET
The full scope →
Threat assessmentDays

Who would do it, and could they

A site, a person, an event or an organization.

  • Every actor whose interests touch the target, named
  • Each one placed on intent and capability, with the evidence for both
  • The indicators that would move a rating, ready to watch
WORDMAPBOARD
The full scope →
Risk assessmentDays

What could go wrong, how likely, how bad

A country, a city, a route, a site or a portfolio.

  • The scenarios that matter for your decision, scored for likelihood and impact on one scale
  • Mitigations, each with the score it leaves behind
  • A one-page answer: yes, no, or yes with conditions
WORDMAPBOARD
The full scope →
Verification and geolocationSame day

Is it where it says it is

A photo, a video or a claim.

  • Where and when it really is, from imagery, terrain, shadows, metadata and corroborating sources
  • A precision statement on the location
  • What could not be confirmed, named
WORDMAP
In the catalog →
Incident reconstructionDays

What actually happened

An event near your people or your assets.

  • A verified timeline, built from every source in every language
  • What is confirmed and what is not, stated plainly
  • The map and the record behind each line
WORDMAP
In the catalog →
Actor profileDays

Who they are and what they do

A group or an individual.

  • Who they are, what they have done, and where
  • How they organize and how they communicate
  • What would change the assessment
WORD
In the catalog →
Scoped the same wayCorridor and supply-chain riskActivity and pattern-of-life analysis from imageryEvent and unrest forecastsA second opinion on a report you already haveThe full catalog →
How it is billed

One assessment. One price. Agreed first.

You buy a finished deliverable, not time. One fixed price per assessment, agreed before work starts. The price does not move with the hours it takes or the number of people on it.

The unit

One signed-off assessment

Scope
The question, the place and the depth, agreed in writing
Date
The day it lands, agreed at scoping
Price
One fixed price, agreed before work starts
Owner
A named analyst, who signs it off
Included

What lands with you

  • The assessment in the agreed format, on your template if you have one
  • The map, the sources and the record it rests on
  • A second analyst's read before it leaves
  • A call to walk through it and answer the questions it raises
  • The right to reuse it, with insurers, counsel or the board
A different unit

What one assessment is not

  • Keeping it current. An assessment is a photograph. The film is The Watch.
  • A week of cover through an election, an evacuation, a storm or a strike. That is Crisis Week.
  • A new place, a new question or a wider scope. That is a new assessment, priced the same way before it starts.
  • The same assessment every month or quarter. Each cycle is one assessment, on the same template.

Need it sooner?Tell us the date and we will tell you if we can.

No seatsYou are not renting a login or a person. You are buying the assessment.
No hourly billingThe price is set before work starts and does not change with the hours.
No headcount pricingHowever many people work on it, the assessment costs what was agreed.
Who is accountable

A named analyst signs every one.

The system does the reading, the collection and the first draft. A named person makes the judgment and puts their name to it. The standards below are on every assessment, and the system checks them before the analyst signs.

One owner, named at scoping

Within one working day you know who owns the work: a vetted analyst matched to the region and the sector. A second analyst reads the assessment before it leaves.

fixed scope · fixed date · one named analyst

Every claim sourced

Two independent sources before a claim is published. "Verified" only when two different kinds of source agree. Ten reposts of one rumor count as one voice. A fact-check pass removes any sentence the record does not support.

two-source rule · two kinds of source before "verified"

Confidence on every line

How sure, in a word and a number. How exact each location is. What could not be confirmed. When the record was last read. What would change the assessment. Where the record is thin, the assessment says so.

Likely (0.68) · precision: neighborhood, not street · gap: no official casualty figure

A log nobody can quietly edit

Every action and decision in the system is written to an append-only log. Each record carries the hash of the one before it, so any edit or deletion breaks the chain at the exact line. Every decision can be reconstructed afterwards.

hash-chained · tamper-evident · each record carries the hash of the one before it

The same rules run the watch. On The Watch, what the system may do alone is set in four autonomy tiers per client, and the heaviest actions need two named people.

Recommended by AI. Signed by a named person.

The assessment recommends and shows its work. The decision, the lease, the trip or the statement, stays yours.

What it replaces

Analyst-weeks. Or a consultancy engagement.

Most assessments are still bought as time. One assessment from GeoBit is bought as a result.

In-house, it is an analyst's week. Someone is pulled off a desk they already cannot leave. They read the local press in the few languages they know, and write what there was time for.

From a consultancy, it is an engagement. It starts at their next slot. A site survey often starts inside the building and ends with a checklist. The report arrives a week later, summarized, often without links.

From GeoBit, it is one assessment. The system has read the record in every language before the task is accepted. A named analyst writes for your decision. It lands on the agreed date, at the price agreed before work started.

Question to finished answer

Days became minutes

A country-level assessment that took a security firm two to five business days was completed on GeoBit in under ten minutes, and periodic reports became near-continuous monitoring.

Source: Deloitte, The Space Edge. Bars not to scale.

The reading and the collection that used to take the first week are done before the work is accepted. The date you agree covers the judgment, the second read and the sign-off.

The jobAnalyst-weeks in-houseA consultancy engagementOne GeoBit assessment
What you buyAn analyst's timeAn engagementOne finished, signed-off assessment
When it startsWhen the desk frees upThe next available slotScoped within one working day
Who reads the recordOne person, in their languagesAnalysts reading sources by handThe system, in every language, before the task is accepted
SourcingDepends on the personOften summarized without linksEvery claim linked; confidence, precision and gaps stated
The priceWhatever the weeks turn out to beSet by the engagementOne fixed price, agreed before work starts
AfterwardsFiledNext year's surveyOnto The Watch, if you want it kept current
How it runs

From the question to the signed assessment.

The same five steps for a one-page verification and a full country study. Only the date changes.

STEP 1

Ask

Send the question, the place, the decision it feeds and the date you need it. An email is enough.

an email
STEP 2

Scope

Within one working day: the scope, the date, the price and the analyst who owns it. Say yes and work starts.

one working day
STEP 3

Collect

The system pulls everything on record for the place and the period, in every language. The analyst adds targeted collection.

every language
STEP 4

Assess

The analyst writes for your decision, on your template. Two sources before a claim. A second analyst reads it.

two-source rule
STEP 5

Sign off

The named analyst signs it off and it lands on the date, with the map, the sources and a call to walk through it.

on the date
Buyers ask

Before you order.

What does an assessment cost?
One fixed price per assessment, agreed before work starts. It depends on the product and the scope, and you see it with the scope and the date, within one working day of asking. No seats, no hourly billing, and no charge for how many people work on it.
What counts as one assessment?
One question about one scope, at the depth agreed in writing: a site, a person, an event, a country, a city, a route or a portfolio. A new place, a new question or a wider scope is a new assessment, priced the same way before it starts.
Who actually writes it?
The system does the reading, the collection, the translation and the first draft. A named analyst matched to the region and the sector makes the judgment and does the writing. A second analyst reads it. Then the named analyst signs it off.
Can we have it sooner?
Tell us the date you need it and we will tell you if we can.
What happens after it lands?
A call to walk through it and answer the questions it raises. It is yours to forward and reuse, with insurers, counsel or the board. If you want it kept current, the site, the indicators or the triggers can go onto The Watch the same week.
Do we need to learn any software?
No. There is no onboarding and no platform to learn. You send a question and receive a finished assessment.
Go deeper

Each assessment in full.

Order an assessment.

Tell us the question, the place and the date you need it. We come back within one working day with the scope, the date, one fixed price and the analyst who will own it.

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