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Answer four questions about your own work

A handful of times a year, a few short questions for the people who actually do the work in aerospace and defense: what your shop is seeing on turn times, what your programme is short of, what you would change about a supplier's paperwork. Answers are published in aggregate, with the question as asked and the number of people who answered it, and never against your name.

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Not a free-mail address: the panel is practitioners answering about their own work.

Not a tick box. Write a sentence confirming you are agreeing to be asked short questions about your work, and we keep what you wrote and show it back to you on your own record. Something like: I agree to be asked short questions about my work and to have my answers published in aggregate.

You are not on the panel until you follow the link we send. Nothing you write here is published about you, no free-text answer is published at all, and you can see everything held, change it, or leave in one action at any time.

What you are agreeing to, and what you are not

What it is. A short question set, a handful of times a year, cut by what you do, how senior you are and which part of the industry you work in. Most questions are a choice of answers and take under a minute.

What gets published. Counts. The question as it was asked, how many people answered, the field dates, the segment, and the breakdowns that hold enough people to publish without identifying anybody. A breakdown that does not is withheld and the result says it was withheld and why.

What never gets published. Anything you write in your own words. Written answers are read by the editor and screened for controlled material before they are stored, and none of them is ever published, because a practitioner's own words about their own programme are the most identifying thing we could print.

What this is not. It is not a call, it is not a consultation, and nobody pays anybody. We are not an expert network and we do not broker time with practitioners. The panel answers questions in aggregate and that is the whole of it.

Nobody is added from anywhere else. Subscribing to a brief, claiming a profile, asking the sourcing assistant or sitting for an interview puts you on no list here. The only way onto the panel is the form above, and you are not on it until you follow the link we send.

Verified and unverified

A member whose work address is on the domain of a company in the supplier directory is verified, and that link is what lets a published finding answer the question of who these people were. A real work address at a company the directory does not carry is unverified, and it counts.

The two are reported as two numbers and are never added into one, on any result, including in the method block. A free-mail address is refused, with the reason, because the panel is practitioners answering about their own work.

Your record is yours

Every poll we send carries a link to your own record. It shows everything held about you, including the consent sentence you wrote, in your words. You can change any of it there.

Leaving is one action on that page, with no confirmation step and no reason asked. We stop holding your address, your employer and your country, and the answers you have already given stay in the aggregates they are part of with no link to you, so a result somebody has already read does not change under them.

Anything else, write to reuben@loadfactor.agency.