Proofreading, copy-editing and document preparation for businesses, academics and professionals. Fixed prices, stated turnaround, and the same person on your document from start to finish.
01 — Scope
Fixed price, fixed extent
Every service states what is included and how much text it covers. Anything outside it is agreed before work starts, never invoiced after.
02 — Confidentiality
Documents stay private
Nothing is shown to anyone, used as a sample or kept longer than needed. Deleted on request, immediately after delivery if you prefer.
03 — Turnaround
Dates are commitments
The turnaround stated with each service is what we work to. If we cannot meet it, you hear before the deadline, not after.
04 — Registration
A registered company
CLA Group Limited, number 12992998, registered at Companies House since 2020. Full details in the footer.
Each service below has a defined scope, a defined extent and a fixed price. Order online, send the document, and it comes back within the stated turnaround. Work that falls outside these is quoted individually.
Proofreading
A final check for spelling, grammar, punctuation, typographic errors and consistency before the document goes out.
Copy-editing
Sentence-level editing for clarity, structure and consistency of voice, with grammar and usage corrected throughout.
Substantive Editing
Deeper editorial work on argument, order and emphasis — for documents that are complete but not yet persuasive.
Academic Proofreading
Proofreading for theses, dissertations and papers: language, consistency, reference formatting and adherence to your institution's style requirements.
Business Document Review
Reports, proposals and board papers reviewed for language, structure and consistency, so they read as one voice rather than several.
CV & Cover Letter Editing
Your CV and covering letter corrected and tightened: language, consistency of tense and formatting, with wording cleaned up throughout.
Document Formatting
Your document set out properly: consistent heading styles, a working table of contents, correct pagination and clean layout.
Editorial Style Sheet
A written house style for your organisation: spelling and capitalisation conventions, number and date formats, terminology, and the decisions people keep re-making.
Long-form Copy-edit
A full copy-edit of a long document or manuscript, with a style sheet recording every decision so the text stays consistent from first page to last.
Subtitle & Transcript Editing
Transcripts and subtitle files corrected for accuracy, punctuation, speaker labels and reading speed, returned in your working format.
Work beyond the extents above varies too much for a fixed price. Send the details — the length, the deadline and what the document is for — and you will have a written quote within one business day.
Request a quoteNothing about the process is unusual. It is written down here so you know what to expect and when.
Stage 01
Choose the service, pay, and send the document by email. Turnaround starts the next business day, once the file is with us.
Stage 02
We check the extent and the type of work against what you ordered. If it falls outside, you hear before anything starts — never afterwards on an invoice.
Stage 03
The work itself, in tracked changes. Anything genuinely ambiguous comes back as a query with a suggestion rather than a silent rewrite.
Stage 04
The document comes back with a clean copy and a style note. Your included revision rounds are turned around within 2 business days.
Not statements of intent. Each one is in the Terms of Service, which you can read in full before ordering.
Confidentiality
Your document stays yours
Copyright never transfers to us. Nothing is used as a sample, shown to anyone or kept beyond three months after delivery — and we delete it immediately on request. Say the word when you order and we will confirm when it is done.
Turnaround
Dates are commitments
The turnaround stated with each service is what we work to, counted from the day your document arrives. If we cannot meet it you hear before the deadline, not after — and where a delay makes the work pointless, you can cancel outright and be refunded in full.
Price
The figure shown is the figure paid
Nothing is added at checkout — no handling fee, no processing charge. Where a document turns out to be longer than the extent ordered, you are told before work starts and can walk away with a full refund.
CLA Group Limited has been registered at Companies House since 2020 and works from Worcester. The practice is deliberately small: the person who takes your order is the person who edits your document, which means nothing is lost in a handover and nobody is guessing at your intent from a briefing note.
Most of the work is unglamorous and matters a great deal. A report that reads as one voice rather than four. A thesis where the references finally match the style guide. A proposal where the argument survives being read quickly by someone who was not in the room. Documents rarely fail because of one glaring error — they fail because of an accumulation of small ones that make a reader stop trusting the writer.
That is what this service exists to prevent. It is not a rewrite and not a redesign of your thinking. It is careful attention to the things you stopped being able to see after the fourth draft.
Send the length, the type of document and the deadline. If a fixed-price service fits, we will say which one. If it does not, you will have a written quote within one business day.