A research request can start as a worry or a hunch, not as a scope. This page follows one request from question to report: what is agreed before research begins, what the research reads, and what you hold at the end. It is written for a buyer deciding whether to hand over a question, and it describes method only, with no sample results.
An engagement is anchored to a single decision you have to make, such as whether to place an order, whether to approach a counterparty, or whether a price on the table is reasonable. The question is scoped in writing against that decision, so that findings are chosen because they bear on it and not because they were easy to find.
What to put in the question itself is covered by the guide on briefing a research request; this page covers what happens after it is sent.
A short boundary list keeps the report from drifting into advice it is not set up to give.
LATYNEX scopes the question with you, but what matters to your business is your call.
Which public sources are read, and how an ambiguous record is treated, are method choices made inside the scope you agreed.
The report stops before the decision. If the next step is a structure, jurisdiction or entry question, that is a separate Consulting piece of work; if it is shipping, it is a separate LATYNEX service.
The work becomes a record-and-consistency review of that company and is a matter of checking details against sources.
Criteria have to be agreed first, because a shortlist or map is only as sharp as the filter that produced it.
Interviews, panels and surveys are primary research and are outside desk research. The scope says so instead of padding the report with guesswork.
In your own words, with the decision it serves. The briefing guide lists what is useful to include.
It is rewritten as something researchable: what will be looked at, what will not, which deliverable you will receive and which sources are in play.
Research starts on the agreed scope. Turnaround is confirmed when the request is accepted.
Public sources are read in the order set out on the sources page, together with any material you provide, and each statement is tied to the source it came from.
Each finding is marked as a verified fact, an inference, unavailable or client-provided, so you can see how much weight it can bear.
You receive a written answer to the agreed question with its sources, the evidence classification and a statement of limits.
Research reports what can be established from public and provided sources. It is not a guarantee about a counterparty's future conduct and not legal advice.
No formal document is needed. The scope is written down and agreed with you before research starts.
It is a set of sourced findings. Where a deliverable includes a recommendation summary, it states its assumptions and stops short of the decision itself.
No. Research reads public sources and the material you provide. Negotiating with or paying a supplier is not part of it.
No. Primary research that needs panels or consent is outside desk research.
No obligation. We read your request and reply with a straight answer.
Tell us what you need to find out and by when. We confirm scope before any work starts.
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