Ask Ark Private

A private question channel. Answers come from a person, not a queue.

You have a question you would rather not put in an email to a consultancy, because the moment you ask it, someone starts selling. Ask it here instead. One question, in your own words, and the answer comes back to you alone.

Nobody sees your question but us. It is not posted anywhere. There is no wall, no board and no thread for others to read.

We publish only if you say yes — and when we do, your company name never appears and neither does anything that identifies you. Most questions stay private, and that is fine.

What you can ask about

We work in five areas, and a question about any of them is fair:

Grant applications — EDGE, EEG, EFS, CTC, training and employment grants: whether an idea is eligible, what has to be true before you spend, what gets asked for at claim.
Traditional training and AI course training — getting a workforce trained, and what an AI course actually changes in a working week.
AI software customisation and implementation — a system built around how your company already works, instead of a subscription you bend your staff around.
Security agencies: SACE consultancy — the twice-annual C.2 training cycle, verbatim criterion wording, attendance records, and what an assessor actually looks for.
Security system consultancy — what a site needs, what it does not, and what the specification should say before anyone quotes you.

The question

One form, five questions

Every line of our work starts in the same place now: five questions, about two minutes, and a reference number you can quote back to us. Nothing is asked of you twice.

Start here

Prefer to write? support@arkprivate.com reaches the same inbox.

What you get back

A straight answer to the question you asked, normally within one working day, from someone who has done the work rather than read about it. If the honest answer is "you are not eligible yet, and here is the thing that has to change first", that is what you will get. No pitch is attached to it.

If your question needs more than an answer — a document read, a claim checked, a system specified — we will say so and tell you what it would cost. You are never signed up to anything by asking.

What we will not ask you for

Nothing to ask your question. No form beyond this one, no documents, no licence numbers, no certificates, no call booked before you have an answer. If we ever need something from you, it is after you have decided to work with us — and not before.

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