Evidence Desk Core
US$5,000/month
For a focused recurring stream of defined verification and decision-research matters.
Division O · External Evidence Desk
Your external independent research and verification capability.
For organisations that repeatedly face material questions across deals, vendors, credit, legal work, claims, technology, risk or monitoring, without wanting to build the full capability internally.
The commercial model
ONE SMALL CHECK CAN BECOME A LONG-TERM EVIDENCE CAPABILITY.
Start with one bounded matter. If the organisation has repeated evidence needs, the relationship can expand across departments, entities, portfolios and monitoring subjects under an agreed monthly capacity and scope.
Typical path: one check → second matter → multiple departments → retained desk → monitoring → long-term account.
What the desk can receive
Defined research questions, verification requests, target or counterparty checks, claim testing, source audits, monitoring requests and other lawful matters that fit Aperture's evidence model.
Large or unusual investigations can be separately scoped rather than consuming the monthly desk unfairly.
Indicative retainer bands
Scale the capacity to the evidence burden.
Evidence Desk Plus
US$10,000/month
For broader multi-department or multi-entity usage with agreed priority and monitoring capacity.
Evidence Desk Embedded
US$20,000+/month
For organisations using Aperture as a recurring external evidence function across a substantial decision portfolio.
Indicative bands only. Final capacity, turnaround expectations, exclusions, monitoring frequency and specialist costs are defined in the written proposal. Major investigations may be quoted separately.
What makes this different from a generic research retainer?
Decision-led
Every task begins with the decision and material fact, not with a request to produce pages.
Independent
Aperture is an external evidence layer, not an extension of the internal narrative.
Cross-functional
The same evidence discipline can support multiple departments without turning into unrelated consulting.
Monitoring-ready
Completed findings can move into Watch where a material fact can change over time.
Relationship with DESK: the existing DESK product remains available for smaller retained research-capacity needs. The External Evidence Desk is the broader cross-functional, recurring evidence relationship.
Start with the recurring evidence burden.
Tell us what kinds of questions keep reappearing, who uses the answers and how quickly they normally matter.
Discuss an External Evidence Desk