Does the £298bn now moving through defence strengthen your position — or expose it?
The Defence Investment Plan funds a decade of demand — and raises the bar on who can prove they’ll deliver it. Before a bid, a deal, a partner or an audit puts your supply chain to the test, we give you a defensible, source-cited read on where your position actually holds — and where it doesn’t.
Decision-grade · built to a reliance-bearing standard · conflict-walled
We publish the standard we work to. We never publish the method.
A prime or defence SME weighing a bid or a second source · a programme, supply-chain or risk director who can’t see past tier-1 · a board or investment committee facing a decision too big to get wrong · a corporate-development or private-capital team pricing a defence target · an OEM or prime choosing who to team with · or a lender or underwriter pricing a position you can’t see inside.
Nine decisions. One Evidence Pack each. Built to one published standard.
Whichever defence decision is in front of you, we settle it as a single, defensible Evidence Pack — a source-cited read you can take to a board, a programme review, a regulator or an underwriter. Pick the one that’s yours. Supply-chain exposure runs through several of them; it is never the whole of it.
Win the work — and hold it
Can you prove the supply chain behind this bid will hold — before you commit to deliver it?
The sub-tier dependency that turns a winning bid into one you can’t deliver — invisible from inside your own programme.
Bid Evidence PackTypical reader: capture lead / programme director.
Is a supplier you depend on already on a path to failure — and would you see it before it stops you?
The distress, the ownership change, the debarment risk forming deep in your chain — read on the public record, not forecast.
Supplier Watch Evidence PackTypical reader: supply-chain & risk director.
Should you second-source this before a single supplier can halt a programme?
The sole-source or foreign-controlled part — energetics, magnets, semiconductors — that one event could put out of reach.
Second-Source Evidence PackTypical reader: procurement / operations director.
If a prime or a regulator asked tomorrow, could you prove your chain is clean — on the clock you’re already on?
Cyber flow-down, sanctions and forced-labour obligations that bind several tiers below you, ahead of dated deadlines.
Compliance Evidence PackTypical reader: contracts, compliance & assurance lead.
Commit to a partner or a market
Does this partner, JV or sub-prime have the capacity — and the clean ownership — to be worth committing to before you sign?
The hidden parent, the adverse control chain, the sanctions or export-control void — traced before it surfaces mid-programme.
Teaming Evidence PackTypical reader: OEM / prime teaming & partnerships lead.
Is there a defensible position in this market — or is the ground already held?
Where capability and demand are concentrating before the RFP exists — and who already owns the lane you’re eyeing.
Market Entry Evidence PackTypical reader: strategy / corporate development.
Put capital behind it
Is this borrower’s order book as solid as the model assumes?
The dependency under a defence borrower a credit file won’t surface — supply-chain exposure, never a market, price or return call.
Lending Evidence PackTypical reader: defence-sector lender / credit.
What is your real exposure to a failure deep in a chain you can’t currently see?
The concentrated single point underneath an insured programme — counted as separate risks when it’s really one.
Underwriting Evidence PackTypical reader: specialty / political-risk underwriter.
What dependency and ownership risk are you really buying inside this target?
The concealed concentration a vendor data room won’t surface — supply-chain dependency, never price or return.
Acquisition Evidence PackTypical reader: corporate-development / private-capital deal team.
A read of record — not a score, not a dashboard.
Whichever decision you bring, the Evidence Pack has the same shape. You can hand it to a board and defend every line of it.
Two unrelated programmes resolve to one shared sub-tier supplier.
The specimen is redacted — it shows the form and the rigour without exposing a position or our method.
The Lansary Standard is published as the bar this work is built to meet. It is not yet adopted as an external mandate, and no read shown is a live, conferred finding.
Every Evidence Pack is held to a bar you can read.
The credibility is the standard, published — not a claim about it.
One published standard — the bar a board, a regulator or an underwriter can hold us to.
Every Evidence Pack is built to it, and every claim traces to the public record. You see the standard. You never see the method — that is the protection. (Published as the bar the work is built to meet; not yet adopted as an external mandate.) Read the Standard →
Nothing to sell you. Your names never leave the room.
What you get is one defensible read on what your position actually depends on — dated, source-cited, and reached the same way every time, so it holds up to the board, the regulator or the underwriter who will test it. Never a black-box score.
The independence isn’t a claim — it’s borrowed from the record. We anchor to the public registers a defence buyer already trusts: Companies House and the PSC register, Contracts Finder and Find a Tender, the UK Sanctions List. You can tell an intelligence house by what it refuses: no score, no forecast, no client names, no “how it works”.
What you bring stays in confidence under NDA. Your suppliers, partners and targets are never named to anyone; anything we reference publicly is unnamed and aggregate.
Read by an operator, not just a machine.
30+ years across aerospace · defence · logistics operations — the warrant for the judgement beneath the evidence.