A narrative for an annual report must endure scrutiny from the disclosure committee, the auditor, and a reader who has last year’s version open in another tab. A discrepancy with a single number in the financial statements renders the entirety of the front section invalid.
This is more about editing than writing. The writer uses signed-off figures, drafts their own sentences based on the board’s language from last year’s report, and notes the sources of all the numbers mentioned in the report.
The front half is the only place management explains numbers in its own words, which is likely the reason is reads with skepticism. The idea that strategy is the segment structure is the only way to interpret clarity here. Trust comes from admitting to some of the year that happened (including moving the goal line) instead of describing an idealized version of the company.
A draft created by software may include a figure for revenue from an earlier release, describe segments that you stopped reporting two years ago, and even cite a note that it has never seen before. For a document that might get audited and filed, a number that could be true is much more dangerous than a number that is simply missing.
You will use the source material to draft your reporting. This material consists of draft statements, a KPI schedule, board minutes, last year’s report, and any items the auditors have previously questioned. Drafting occurs against versions controlled files (not a press release or an approximation thereof) and requests which figures are still in motion before drafting them around those figures.
We correlate the narrative to the statements line by line and return the figure register for your finance team to have to only check a list instead of having to reread forty pages. Tone is read against the prior year for unexplained shifts. The document finally goes to your auditors, counsel and disclosure committee, who have the final say on every sentence.
One rate, whatever the format: $10 per 100 words. You are paying for the writer’s time and judgement, so the price scales with the words rather than with a package tier.
| Typical annual-report narrative | Words | Writing | Fee (1%) | You pay |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Chair and CEO statements | 1,500 | $150 | $1.50 | $151.50 |
| Strategic report narrative | 4,000 | $400 | $4 | $404 |
| Full front-half narrative | 8,000 | $800 | $8 | $808 |
The writer receives 100% of the writing price. Our 1% fee is added on top of it, and 0.5% is donated to tree planting. Full pricing breakdown.
Yes — 2 rounds are included, for 14 days after delivery, handled by the writer who wrote the piece rather than by someone new to the brief.
Yes, by assigning someone who already knows the subject rather than someone who will research it overnight. If we do not have the right specialist available we will tell you rather than take the brief and hope.
We work around them. Any numbers that are being worked on are placed into the figure register as provisional and are shown in the text as marked placeholder, so nothing gets published with an out of date value. Once the statements get signed, the register tells your team what updates are needed.
One writer, if time permits. A single perspective across the Chair Statement, the Strategic Report, and the Governance sections is what unifies a report as one cohesive company, rather than four fragmented divisions.
Completely. Copyright transfers to you on delivery, with no attribution requirement and no licence back to us. Nothing written for you is resold, repurposed or republished.
Reviews from completed, paid orders in this category.
Most finance writers take the metaphorical pizza slice route. Our piece explained the math slowly and correctly, using the actual numbers we charge. Compliance signed it off, and they made zero changes. That has not happened in the three years during which I have done this job.
Explaining compound interest to those who left school at sixteen is difficult and this mainly tackles the issue. I requested and was given one worked example with real numbers. I wanted three, so I made two adjustments. Your definition of APR is the most comprehensible I have come across in any context.
A fifty-page strategy document turned into two pages that our chair read on a train and understood. The hard part is figuring out what is key and leaving the rest out. It is clear that someone made the decisions and did not just evenly condense the document.
We do not ask you to take the no-AI promise on trust. Each draft is run through these platforms and the reports are attached to your delivery email.
Originality.aiAI detection + plagiarism
GPTZeroAI detection
TurnitinAI detection + similarity
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Winston AIAI detection
ZeroGPTAI detection
SaplingAI detection
Content at ScaleAI detection
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