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60+
Engagements represented here
7
Sectors with documented cases
14
Jurisdictions, active and closed
100%
Confidentiality maintained
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SECTOR
SERVICE
OUTCOME
Private EquityDue Diligence

The founder lawsuit legal diligence missed

DECLASSIFIED

A buyout, three weeks from signing, one undisclosed dispute.

SITUATION

Standard legal and financial diligence hadn't surfaced a founder-level defamation dispute buried in regional press archives.

RESPONSE

Forensic digital risk assessment across search, media, and regulatory sources — findings reached the investment committee inside the diligence window.

OUTCOME

Deal closed at a revised valuation, with remediation built directly into the 100-day plan.

7d
Dossier delivered
1
Material finding
TechnologyCrisis Containment

Forty-eight hours between outage and headline

DECLASSIFIED

A Series C outage snowballed into a coordinated pile-on.

SITUATION

A product outage triggered coordinated criticism across social and forum platforms, compounding within 48 hours into press pickup and a Glassdoor spike.

RESPONSE

Containment activated inside 24 hours: cross-platform monitoring, narrative stabilization with the executive team, search triage on the company and CEO name.

OUTCOME

Narrative contained before national media pickup; search results normalized the following quarter.

24h
Containment activated
90d
To normalization
HealthcareExecutive Protection

The CEO who shared a name with a felon

DECLASSIFIED

An investor flagged the wrong search result, days before a raise.

SITUATION

An incoming lead investor flagged that search results for the CEO's name were dominated by an unrelated namesake's legal history.

RESPONSE

Executive protection program pairing authoritative profile content with search engineering to disambiguate identity.

OUTCOME

Accurate profile secured top search positions ahead of the raise; investor concern resolved with no delay to the round.

4mo
To resolution
P1
Positions secured
Financial ServicesSearch Exposure

A five-year-old settlement, still ranking first

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Every prospective LP's first click led to old news.

SITUATION

An immaterial, resolved settlement continued to occupy the top result for the firm's institutional brand name.

RESPONSE

Long-term search exposure engineering: authoritative content deployment, sustained optimization, quarterly re-audit against the queries LPs actually use.

OUTCOME

Legacy coverage displaced from page one; current institutional content now holds the top three positions.

14mo
Program length
3
Top positions held
Legal ServicesLitigation-Sensitive

Reputation work under a live regulatory inquiry

DECLASSIFIED

Every move had to clear outside counsel first.

SITUATION

An active regulatory inquiry meant every remediation action carried legal sensitivity, and counsel required all activity to stay within privilege.

RESPONSE

Litigation-sensitive strategy coordinated directly with external counsel — search management and post-resolution narrative architecture only.

OUTCOME

No reputation activity cited in the inquiry; recovery program launched two weeks after closure.

0
Privilege exposures
2wk
To recovery launch
EnergyDigital Risk Assessment

Mapping the narrative before the permitting hearing

DECLASSIFIED

Regulators read the internet too, so we mapped it first.

SITUATION

Ahead of a permitting decision, leadership needed a full map of activist content, local media, and sentiment likely to shape regulator perception.

RESPONSE

Digital risk assessment scoped to the permitting stakeholder map, delivered as a board-reportable dossier with a monitoring plan for the review window.

OUTCOME

Leadership entered the review with full situational awareness and a pre-briefed response for anticipated flashpoints.

7d
Dossier delivered
200+
Sources mapped
Real EstateTransaction Readiness

A tenant dispute that outlived the development itself

DECLASSIFIED

Old headlines, new buyer, one closing deadline.

SITUATION

A strategic sale was approaching while legacy tenant-dispute coverage from a prior development still ranked for the parent brand.

RESPONSE

Pre-transaction readiness program: legacy content addressed, executive narrative prepared, rapid-response monitoring set for the transaction window.

OUTCOME

Transaction closed on schedule with zero reputation-related conditions raised in diligence.

5mo
Pre-close prep
0
Conditions raised
TechnologyEmployee Narrative

When restructuring shows up on Glassdoor first

DECLASSIFIED

Senior candidates were reading the reviews and passing.

SITUATION

Restructuring generated a wave of critical Glassdoor and Blind content, measurably suppressing senior candidate acceptance rates.

RESPONSE

Platform audit, policy-violating content remediation, and a structured push to generate authentic current-employee content over two quarters.

OUTCOME

Employer rating recovered to pre-restructuring levels; senior offer acceptance returned to baseline.

2Q
Program length
Rating trend reversed
Private EquityPortfolio Company

Cleaning up a decade of someone else's management

DECLASSIFIED

Eighteen months to make an exit look inevitable.

SITUATION

A sponsor engaged us for a portfolio company carrying years of adverse content from a prior management team, ahead of a planned exit.

RESPONSE

Long-term recovery layered with ongoing monitoring, structured re-audits, and reporting timed to sponsor board meetings.

OUTCOME

Digital environment stabilized ahead of schedule; monitoring retained through the exit process.

18mo
Recovery horizon
4
Board re-audits
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