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Honest scope
We state what is included, excluded and outside current competence.
Ethics & Independence
Useful research must also be responsible research.
Clarivo protects the integrity of questions, data, authorship and interpretation. We decline work that depends on deception, hidden authorship, fabricated evidence or missing approval.
Integrity commitments
What clients, collaborators and readers may expect.
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Visible authorship
Actual authors and contributors are named according to their roles.
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Traceable claims
Material claims connect to sources, data or analysis.
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Protected data
Data are minimised, accessed lawfully and handled according to the agreed plan.
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Disclosed interests
Funding, relationships, tools and relevant conflicts are recorded.
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Correctable outputs
Material errors are assessed, corrected and versioned rather than silently replaced.
Stop/go boundary
Desk work and approval-gated work are not the same.
Usually suitable for direct scoping
Examples may proceed when sources and permissions are lawful and no other approval is triggered.
- Public-source evidence synthesis
- Analysis of genuinely open, non-identifiable data
- Methods notes and research training
- Editing that preserves actual authorship
- Protocol preparation before formal submission
Pause for determination or approval
Examples require an appropriate institutional, ethics, regulatory or data-governance pathway before substantive work proceeds.
- Interaction with human participants
- Identifiable or restricted personal data
- Biological samples or clinical procedures
- Access to confidential client or patient records
- Research requiring sector, institutional or national clearance
Work we prohibit
- Fabricating, altering or concealing data
- Ghostwriting dissertations or assessed work
- Inventing citations, clients, testimonials or results
- Manipulating analysis to deliver a predetermined finding
- Hiding material conflicts or authorship
- Promising publication, approval or guaranteed outcomes
Work requiring associates
Large evaluations, specialist qualitative research, advanced statistics, field research and other multidisciplinary assignments are accepted only when suitable expertise, responsibility and review are secured.
Independence
We do not sell a preferred answer.
A client may define the decision and commission the work. They may not require Clarivo to suppress relevant evidence, misstate uncertainty or make an unsupported claim.
Conflicts and funding
Relevant financial, professional, academic and personal relationships are identified during scoping and disclosed in public outputs when appropriate. A conflict may be managed, independently reviewed or judged incompatible with the assignment.
Authorship and acknowledgement
Authorship reflects substantive intellectual contribution and accountability. Editing, administration, funding or access alone do not automatically qualify a person for authorship. Client and associate roles are documented before release.
Corrections and concerns
Report a suspected error, undisclosed conflict, privacy concern or integrity issue through the contact route. Provide the title, version and specific concern without sending confidential personal data. Material findings will be assessed and the public record corrected when warranted.
Responsible scope is part of the service.
If your assignment touches human participants, identifiable data, samples, clinical work or regulated activity, say so at the beginning. We will help identify the required stop/go question without pretending to replace formal authorities.