What we do

Evidmere produces independent strategic reviews for boards and investors, using proprietary software and artificial intelligence under a written method and a published standard.

A strategic review has always been limited by what a small team can read, check and record in the weeks available. Our software changes that. It carries out every step of the method, reads and cross-checks the evidence at a depth that time used to rule out, and keeps a complete record of how each conclusion was reached.

People stay in charge of the judgement. We set the question with you, rule on every conclusion that matters, and sign off each review before it reaches you.

The problem

A strategic review is a document a partnership acts on. It is usually produced under time pressure, by people who will not be there when it is tested, and it does not record how it reached its conclusions.

When the thesis is later challenged — by an investment committee, by a limited partner, by a buyer’s diligence team — the reasoning cannot be reconstructed. The work is not wrong. It is unauditable.

How a review is made

The method is written down and does not vary between engagements. You can read the standard before you commission the work, and check the review against it afterwards.

Every assertion in the review is linked to the source it rests on. Every source is dated and rated for confidence. Where the evidence is thin, the review says so, and says how thin. Where two sources conflict, both appear.

Each possible answer is tested against the question the board asked. What was examined and rejected is recorded alongside what was accepted, with the reason.

What a board can act on

A review ends where the decision begins. It gives a recommendation, the case against it, what must be true for it to hold, and the point at which the board should change course.

It then sets out the next steps as dated milestones that someone outside the company could check.

What you receive

• A strategic review, in a fixed format, running to a defined structure.
• A recommendation, the case against it, and dated milestones to test it by.
• A confidence rating applied to every material claim.
• A source register, addressable and dated.
• A record of what was examined and rejected, not only what was accepted.
• The right to have the method independently inspected.

Capacity

Because our software carries out the method, we can conduct several reviews at the same time, and each receives the same depth as if it were the only one.

Where the method comes from

The method was developed across strategic reviews for corporate and private-equity clients, and has been formalised so that it can be applied consistently rather than remembered.

Engagement

Engagements begin with a scoping conversation and a written remit. We do not respond to requests for proposal and we do not present speculatively.

If a remit cannot be answered within the method, we will say so at the scoping stage rather than after the fee is agreed.

Contact

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London