“Don’t worry about not being able to afford a solicitor. You can get legal aid for that. Just start ringing around.” It all sounds reassuring enough until you actually try it. That’s when the...
Category - Regulation
New developments in regulation from the from the perspective of those receiving and responding to unsolicited enquiries
Gabriel Fitzpatrick
Don’t Come Back Until You’re Homeless: How Early Intervention Could Save Councils Billions
Britain’s housing crisis is usually described through rents, shortages and welfare. Yet another failure sits between those pressures and homelessness: people cannot reliably warn the system before their accommodation...
Stephen Walters
Patients have become the NHS’s unpaid follow-up department
The NHS waiting list is visible because it is counted. The administrative work surrounding that wait is less visible, although patients perform more of it every day. People telephone departments, check whether referrals...
Richard Hall
Are Public Bodies Now Just Faking Reachability?
Barnet Council’s garden-waste page appears to have told residents waiting for stickers to email its recycling team. In this case, when that route was used, the automated reply said the inbox wasn’t monitored. It’s a...
Peter Friedman
Unsolicited email enquiries? Your CRM hates them!
The Core Diagnosis: The Outbound Bias of Modern CRMs The prompt perfectly identifies the structural blind spot: CRMs were fundamentally architected from an outbound-first, campaign-centric mindset. To a CRM, structured...
CompetitivenessComplianceCRMCXEmailImpact of AIInsightsReachabilityRegulationRepliesReputational harm
What on Earth Is This Universal Commerce Thing? Why haven’t I even heard of it?
Universal Commerce Protocol: The Background and the Bigger Implication Why This |Matters Now Digital commerce is changing because customers are no longer always navigating websites themselves. Increasingly, AI...
