Corporate Profile Writing Support

A working profile has a fixed spine. Open with a verification block — registered name exactly as filed, company or registration number, incorporation date, registered office, legal form, and the industry code your jurisdiction uses (a SIC code at Companies House, a NAICS code in the United States). After that comes a one-sentence positioning line, a "what we do" section split by service line rather than by internal department, a dated milestone list, leadership bios, evidence of delivery, and a contact block. Everything after the verification block is argument. Everything inside it is fact a reader can check against a public register, which is why it goes first.

It is shorter, harder-edged and written for a buyer rather than a browser. A US capability statement is conventionally held to one page and carries the fields a contracting officer screens on: core competencies, past performance, differentiators and company data — including the SAM.gov Unique Entity ID, the twelve-character government-issued identifier that replaced the DUNS number across SAM.gov and the Integrated Award Environment on 4 April 2022, plus your CAGE code and registered NAICS codes. In the UK the equivalent gate is the Procurement Specific Questionnaire, which replaced the Standard Selection Questionnaire when the Procurement Act 2023 went live on 24 February 2025, with notices published on Find a Tender. A profile persuades; a capability statement gets you past a filter.

Fix a template and hold it across every person. Third person throughout, the same length for each bio — a common house rule is roughly 90 to 120 words, with extra room only for a founder — and the same running order: current role and remit, time in it, the two or three prior roles that explain the current one, qualifications with the awarding institution, and one non-obvious line if the brief asks for it. Cut anything you could not evidence from a CV, a filing, or the person themselves. Capitalise job titles consistently and name each person identically wherever they appear. Our CV and résumé support applies the same discipline to individuals.

Primary filings first. In the UK, the Companies House register gives the incorporation date, the officers and the filed accounts; the strategic report required by section 414A of the Companies Act 2006, whose contents are prescribed by section 414C, and the section 172(1) statement required by section 414CZA for companies above medium-sized, show how a board describes its own priorities in its own words. For US-listed firms, Item 1 (Business) of the annual Form 10-K, drafted against Regulation S-K Item 101, is the company's own account of its operations, while Item 1A sets out the risks it admits to. Cross-check every milestone date against a filing or dated release. If the profile sits inside assessed coursework, those sources need citing — see how the main referencing styles compare.

Yes, substantially. A client-facing profile leads with capability and proof of delivery: service lines, sectors, named engagements, scale. An investor-facing profile leads with the business model and the arithmetic under it. The nine blocks of the Business Model Canvas (Osterwalder and Pigneur, Business Model Generation, 2010) work well as a coverage checklist — customer segments, value proposition, channels, customer relationships, revenue streams, key activities, key resources, key partners, cost structure. Where sustainability claims appear, anchor them to a framework rather than to adjectives: the GRI Universal Standards (GRI 1, 2 and 3, effective 1 January 2023), or IFRS S1 and S2, effective for annual reporting periods beginning on or after 1 January 2024.

No. Where the profile is graded work, support stays on the method side: explaining the structure, marking up a parallel example built around a different company so nothing transfers verbatim, reading the brief with you, and proofreading and commenting on the draft you have written. That marked-up example stays what it is — an annotated profile of a company you are not writing about, labelled a reference document, never a draft of yours. The test for which mode applies is where the finished text goes: if it goes to a marker and is judged against the module's assessment criteria, it is assessed work; if it goes to the company itself — one you actually run, an incubator application, a tender annex — fuller drafting assistance is appropriate. Related structural work sits under report writing support; send the module brief and every destination the profile has to serve via contact us, and we will tell you which side of that line yours falls on.