Standing Proof

For professionals

Stop interviewing clients into a blank document

The usual engagement ends with a file. Your client emails you a résumé, you interview them, you write something better, and everything you uncovered lives in that document and nowhere else. Six months later they need a different version and the work starts again.

Standing Proof gives you somewhere to put what you find. You work inside the client’s own evidence repository, and what you help them recover stays theirs — which is better for them, and it is why they come back to you rather than to their old file.

A career coach and her client sitting at a wooden table in a quiet office, both working over the same printed pages, one pointing at a line and the other writing a note in the margin.

What you can do today

  • Work in scoped parts of their record

    They choose which experiences you see, one by one. Nothing is shared by default, and anything they have not shared is never listed, previewed or counted to you.

  • Suggest, and let them decide

    You propose wording against a specific field and say why. They see your version beside theirs and accept, reject, or ask you something. Nothing you write enters their record until they accept it.

  • Ask for the detail that is missing

    Flag a record as missing a team size, a budget, a before-and-after number. They get a short specific task rather than an email, and answering it improves the underlying record permanently.

  • Run an evidence interview

    The record's own gaps become an ordered interview script: what was it, how big, what changed, what could corroborate it. Every answer reaches your client as a suggestion with your name and reasoning on it, and their record is permanently better after the engagement.

  • Keep your own notes to yourself

    Your working notes are private to you, never part of their evidence, and never in anything they export. They live as long as the workspace does, and go when your client deletes their account.

What it costs

Priced by active client workspaces, not by seats or by clients you have ever had. A closed engagement stops occupying one straight away, and your former client keeps their own account and everything in it.

  • One active client workspaceFree1 active workspace
  • Solo$39/mo3 active workspaces
  • Practice$99/mo15 active workspaces
  • Firm$249/mo50 active workspaces

One active client workspace, free, not for a trial period. End an engagement and its place opens up for the next client, so a light caseload need not cost anything. Run a whole engagement, end to end, before you decide whether the rest is worth paying for.

Being invited into a client’s evidence is never charged to them. What a plan buys is how many clients you can work with at once. Above fifty, talk to us rather than clicking a button.

How to start

  1. 1Create your own account firstThe workspace is an add-on to a Standing Proof account, so you need one before you can apply. It is free, it takes an emailed code, and it is also your own evidence repository — most professionals end up using it for their own career too.
  2. 2Apply, and we verify youA short form about your practice. A person reads it. We verify because the people inviting you are handing over the record of their career, and that is not a self-serve switch.
  3. 3Take a client, freeOnce you are approved, one active client workspace costs nothing today, with no trial clock counting down. Run a whole engagement and see whether it is worth paying for.
  4. 4Pay only when you take a second clientChoose a plan from inside the workspace when you need to carry more than one client at once. Nothing asks for a card before that point.
Create an account and apply

For practices

Several practitioners can share one plan’s workspace pool: name your practice, add colleagues by email, and everyone draws on one allowance with one bill. Members must each hold a verified professional account — verification is per person, and a practice never skips it. Saved templates for your standard phrasings and a practice analytics view (counts of your own activity, never client content) come with it.

Not built yet, said plainly: a facilitator certification program, which waits until the first cohorts have run.

Learning the method

The method you would be working inside is written up in full. It is the same document the product is built from: how a job description is read as a requirements document, how evidence is graded, and why a gap is reported rather than filled. If you already interview clients for a living, most of it will read as a formalisation of what you do by instinct.

A two-minute video walkthrough of the workspace, and a guided tour that walks you through it one step at a time on your own screen, are both inside the workspace, where you land once approved. The whitepaper is the deeper reference, and the honest place to start.

Read the whitepaper

One thing worth being clear about, because it is the whole product: Standing Proof never invents an accomplishment. It will not generate a figure your client has not stated, and it will not let you introduce one either — a claim with no evidence behind it gets flagged rather than written. How that works.