The independent, documented assessment of reputational risk before any consequential decision or engagement.
What reputational due diligence meansBefore an appointment or selection decision. Independent assessment of a person's publicly accessible record, commissioned by an organisation with a selection, governance or oversight responsibility.
Explore Verify For OrganisationsBefore a sensitive meeting or negotiation. Independent assessment of what can be corroborated about a prospective counterparty and the representations your engagement depends on, commissioned by the organisation considering it.
Explore Pre-Engagement Due Diligence For IndividualsBefore entering professional or public scrutiny. A confidential review of your own publicly accessible record, commissioned by you and issued to you.
Explore Public Profile ReadinessEvery assessment works from material that is publicly or legitimately accessible. Integri does not bypass access controls, use covert methods, or access private, restricted or credential-protected sources.
The scope is agreed at commissioning rather than assumed, and the assessment is made as at a stated date. Where the client holds material relevant to the agreed scope, that material is treated as a starting point for research rather than as established fact. The work is carried out independently of the decision or engagement it informs, and the result is a documented report rather than an impression given in conversation. Findings and conclusions are tied to the evidence on which they rest.
Every assessment is reviewed and authorised by Integri before issue.
An Integri report informs a decision. It does not discharge the client or appointing body's own due diligence or decision-making responsibilities.
Integri is politically neutral. Its methodologies, standards and assessment processes are applied consistently regardless of political affiliation, organisational structure, ideology or elected office. Integri does not endorse political parties, candidates or public policy positions.
Assessment before appointment is only one part of the picture.
Induct provides governance onboarding after appointment. Reverse Firewall provides continuing preventative support for proposed communications. Both sit outside reputational due diligence.
A personal, AI-assisted safeguard that helps you consider potential conduct and reputational concerns before publishing your own text.
Explore Reverse FirewallIntegri's Approach sets out Preventative Governance and the Governance Lifecycle, together with The Case for Assessment, the assessment methodologies and Integri's published material.
Monitoring Officers are carrying more than they used to. Experienced colleagues are retiring faster than they are being replaced, the role is often combined with Head of Legal Services, and reorganisation is redrawing the ground underneath. At the same time, many members are new to local government and to the standards regime, increasing the demand for advice and training while reducing the institutional memory available to support them.
These pressures become particularly acute when conduct concerns arise. By the time a matter reaches the Monitoring Officer, an appointment has usually been made, the conduct has occurred, and the available remedies may be limited. What might once have been a question of prevention has become a matter of managing the consequences, often under public scrutiny.
Yet not every concern first becomes visible at that point. Some of the information that later gives rise to governance or reputational difficulties may already have been available in the public record before appointment. Independent pre-appointment assessment cannot prevent every subsequent problem, but it can help organisations identify relevant information, ask informed questions and make better-supported decisions before responsibilities are conferred.
Information for Monitoring OfficersEnquiries fall into three groups: organisational enquiries, individual enquiries, and general governance and compliance matters.
Contact IntegriAll Integri services and outputs are advisory only. Integri does not provide legal advice or representation, exercise statutory powers, certify compliance, determine suitability or fitness for any role, make appointment, selection, disciplinary or removal decisions, or guarantee any particular outcome. Clients and commissioning organisations retain sole responsibility for their own due diligence, human judgement and final decisions. No Integri output must be relied upon as the sole basis for a governance, publication, appointment, selection, engagement, disciplinary, removal or legal decision.