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SERVICES
Content & Product Development
Project Management
Editorial Services
Digital Publishing
Publishing Consultancy
Assessment
Specialist expertise for publishing challenges. Some projects require analysis, research or process expertise rather than additional production capacity. PeopleSay provides consultancy grounded in practical educational publishing experience.
Product & market research
Competitive research · Product analysis · Market research · Feature comparison · Customer and user requirements · Customer value proposition development
Product consultancy
Product concepts · Component strategies · Market adaptations · Print and digital integration · Product specifications · Development approaches
Publishing workflows
We can analyze existing editorial and digital workflows and help develop processes appropriate to new products, platforms or publishing requirements.
Digital publishing consultancy
Digital content models · Authoring · Activity templates · E-books · Online practice · Classroom presentation products · Editorial and production workflows
Tender & proposal support
PeopleSay can provide research, product and publishing expertise for complex educational publishing proposals and tenders, including international and Ministry of Education opportunities.
Keeping complex publishing projects moving. Publishing projects involve multiple contributors, interconnected workflows, changing priorities and immovable deadlines. PeopleSay provides experienced publishing project management to coordinate the people, processes and deliverables required to move projects from brief through completion.
Editorial project management
Project planning · Schedule development and tracking · Workflow management · Manuscript and asset tracking · Deliverable management · Issue and risk management · Quality control · Handover and delivery
Contributor management
Contributor commissioning and briefing · Assignment management · Schedule coordination · Feedback and query management · Deliverable review · Freelancer coordination
Managed teams
Where a project requires additional capacity, PeopleSay can assemble and manage a team rather than requiring the publisher to contract and coordinate multiple individual freelancers. This can include project managers, authors, development editors, content editors, copy editors, proofreaders and digital specialists selected around the requirements of the assignment.
Working with your team
PeopleSay can manage an entire workstream or work alongside your existing editorial, product, design, production and digital teams.
Developing content that works for the learner, the market and the product.
PeopleSay supports publishers developing new educational content and adapting existing products for different markets, learners and delivery formats. Our experience spans primary, secondary, adult and academic English products, including global courses, regional adaptations and Ministry of Education programs. We can support a particular component or stage of development or assemble a team to deliver a larger content-development workstream.
Content development
ELT and educational content development · Course and component development · Student materials · Teacher materials · Practice and supplementary materials · Digital learning content · Assessment and practice activities
Adaptation & localization
PeopleSay can support adaptations for particular educational systems, markets and learner groups, including changes to content, scope, level, cultural context and product configuration.
Product development
Product definition · Component planning · Content specifications · Prototype development · Product reviews · Market-specific requirements · Print and digital integration
Specialist editorial support throughout the publishing lifecycle. PeopleSay provides editorial expertise for ELT and educational publishing across print and digital products. We can provide an individual editor for a defined assignment, additional editorial capacity during a demanding stage of development, or a managed editorial team for larger projects.
Development editing
Reviewing content against the brief and syllabus · Evaluating level and progression · Reviewing lesson and unit structure · Supporting authors during development · Identifying content gaps and inconsistencies · Reviewing pedagogical effectiveness · Coordinating revisions
Content editing
Content accuracy · Level and learner appropriacy · Instructional clarity · Internal consistency · Scope-and-sequence compliance · Answer and reference checking · Cross-component consistency
Copy editing — Detailed language and editorial review against publisher specifications and house style.
Proofreading — Final-stage checking across print and digital materials to identify errors and inconsistencies before publication.
Editorial management — For projects involving multiple editors or components, PeopleSay can provide editorial leadership and quality oversight to maintain consistency across the project.
Educational content for digital products and workflows. Digital publishing requires editorial and product expertise alongside an understanding of how content is structured, authored, transformed and delivered. PeopleSay supports publishers developing digital learning products and the workflows used to create them. Our experience includes e-books, online practice, digital course components, classroom presentation products, digital authoring systems and structured publishing workflows.
Digital content development
Online practice · Interactive activities · Digital course components · Student resources · Teacher resources · Classroom presentation content
Digital adaptation
PeopleSay can support the adaptation of existing materials for digital environments, considering activity design, interaction, navigation, learner experience and technical constraints.
E-books
We have experience supporting educational e-book development, including content preparation, publishing workflows and market-specific e-book requirements.
Digital authoring & workflows
Activity authoring · Template implementation · Content migration and adaptation · Content QA · Authoring guidelines · Workflow development · Workflow analysis · Content specifications · Activity templates · Editorial-to-production handoffs · Quality-assurance processes
Assessment content for print and digital learning products. PeopleSay provides assessment development, test-item writing, editorial review and quality assurance for ELT and educational publishing projects. Our experience includes course-based assessment, exam preparation materials, digital assessment and standardized language-testing contexts.
Assessment development
Assessment content development · Test-item writing · Unit and progress tests · Practice tests · Course-based assessment · Exam preparation materials · Print and digital assessment
Assessment editing & review
Content editing · Item review · Level and learner appropriacy · Instructional clarity · Answer and key checking · Consistency against specifications · Quality assurance
Digital assessment
PeopleSay can support assessment developed for digital delivery, including interactive activities, digital test content, content authoring and quality assurance.
Specialist ELT assessment experience
Our broader ELT experience includes work across international language assessment and exam-preparation contexts, providing a practical understanding of assessment alongside publishing expertise.
HOW WE WORK
Not every project requires the same level of support.
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Specialist Support
Bring in an experienced publishing professional for a defined assignment or to add capacity to an existing team.
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Managed Services
Give PeopleSay responsibility for a defined body of work involving multiple specialists. We coordinate assignments, schedules, workflows and quality against the agreed brief.
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Managed Projects
PeopleSay assembles and manages a project team around a larger publishing workstream, bringing together project management, editorial, authoring and specialist expertise as required.
You don’t need to define the delivery model before contacting us. Tell us about the product, schedule, work involved and challenges you’re facing. We’ll discuss what you need and determine the most appropriate way PeopleSay can support the project.
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