We are not a forensic firm. We do not exist to discover wrongdoing; we exist to surface drift. The drift between what the establishment promised the regulator at registration and what it actually does today; between what a contractor invoices and what the contractor pays the worker; between the standing orders pinned to the noticeboard and the disciplinary practice that has evolved around them. Drift is quiet. By the time it announces itself, it is usually expensive.
Advisory work pairs with the audit. Once the gap report is on the table, the next question is always the same — what now. We answer in writing, in plain language, with a remediation plan that names an owner and a deadline for each item. Where the matter is on its way to tribunal we work alongside counsel; where it is on the regulator's desk we attend the hearing.
The point of the practice is not to be cleverer than the inspector. It is to make the inspector's visit a matter of register-keeping, not of negotiation.