A Voss and Pike Casefile: The First Case
Section 26: The Pitch Deck
Lyle, with the confidence of a man who'd never once imagined the document being used against him, clicked forward. CANDOUR: PREDICTIVE COMMUNITY RISK SCORING FOR LAW ENFORCEMENT AND LOCAL AUTHORITY PARTNERS. Case studies. Pricing tiers. A client testimonial from an unnamed "regional police partnership" praising "actionable insight delivered ahead of incident."
"This is being sold," you said. "Not shared with a journal. Sold, to police forces, as a product."
"Knowledge has always had a market, Dr Voss," said Lyle, unbothered. "Your own university's quite happy to take our money for producing it. I don't see why the arrangement becomes sinister only once someone notices who's buying."
Thorncastle's sales materials reveal Candour was never purely academic research - it is being actively marketed to police forces as a predictive policing product, a direct commercial use of community trust data gathered under academic pretences.