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Dispatch produces editorially independent investigations into the UK creative industries. We work with brands, sector bodies, institutions, unions, and AI tool companies who want rigorous, evidence-grounded media applied to questions that matter to them.

Every commission generates published work. Reports, editorial content, data visualisation, interview series, documentary, podcast episodes. The structural framework drives the investigation. The media brings it to life.

Insight Reports

Commission an investigation into the conditions and dynamics shaping a specific sector, question, or challenge. We work together to identify where the framework can shed light on what you're seeing, then Dispatch designs the investigation, conducts the research, and produces a visually presented report with data visualisation, evidence-grounded analysis, and narrative.

Whether you're a trade association, a sector body, a brand, a local authority, or a union, if you have a question about conditions in your sector, we can investigate it.

Editorial Programme Sponsorship

Each Dispatch editorial programme is a sustained investigation into a specific question, sector, or dynamic, producing content across multiple formats from a single evidence base: written editorial, interviews, documentary, podcasts, data visualisation, social content, and a cultural salon.

Sponsors gain association across every format the programme produces and access to the audience the investigation builds. We work collaboratively on scope, access, and how findings reach the audiences that matter to both of us. Dispatch holds the editorial direction because that independence is what makes the work worth associating with.

AI Research Partnerships

Applied research with AI tool companies and platforms investigating how specific tools interact with the conditions creative work requires. Which tools augment creative capacity under which conditions. Where tools accelerate depletion. What design decisions genuinely serve the people doing creative work.

This is structural intelligence about how products operate in creative practice, grounded in the analytical framework and tested against the experience of people across the creative industries. Dispatch gains evidence about how AI is reshaping the system. Partners gain insight they cannot generate internally.

Editorial independence is the foundation of every partnership.

Strategic Communications

Dispatch also takes on select strategic communications projects where the brief aligns with our editorial expertise. Brand positioning, PR strategy, campaign development, thought leadership, pitch strategy. The same editorial depth and cultural grounding that drives the investigations, applied to a client's communications challenge.

How we work

We research before we recommend. Engagements are scoped to what's needed. The same evidence standards apply here as in our editorial work: claims are sourced, thinking is grounded, and we stay honest about what we find.

Every commission contributes to the broader investigation. The structural intelligence generated through the work feeds the framework, deepens the evidence base, and strengthens the archive.