Client stories
Four visits, including one that ended with the dummy still on the board
These are sittings and allocations at Netpilot Base, not marketplace scores. Each one names the origin work that was actually in the room.
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I reserved number 14 of Assembly Hour One after sitting with the dummy. The recap box on page two named the people who had refused the meeting that morning, which is the detail I had been missing in reprint packs. The paper proof arrived rolled too tight and took a day under books to flatten — I wish they had said that in the handover — but the plate mark matches the token and I have since read the interiors twice.
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We asked for a joining origin that would not restage the rooftop assembly. Asha sent thumbnails that put the argument in a kitchen, which felt small until the letterer cut the captions. Eight weeks is a long wait if you are used to buying a pamphlet on Wednesday, yet the closing page is the first time I have cared about a late arrival in this run.
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Tomais told me not to take a second copy of the fifty-print first assembly. That was not what I booked the sitting for. He was right: the gap was The Empty Chair, and the gap list he posted the next morning named the exact recap I had been skating past.
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I took the £40 chair on a Thursday and did not allocate. The current dummy’s last page repeated the opening pose. Merrin wrote the objection down. I will come back when the closing splash changes; I would rather spend the chair fee than hold a number I will not reread.
Assembly Hour One, from dummy to plate
Helena Crowe came from Ely with a reprint pack that opened on a rooftop pose and never named who had refused the morning meeting. She sat with the Assembly Hour One dummy, reserved number 14, and waited out the drop close. The paper proof arrived rolled; she wrote to say so. We now ship splash proofs flat between boards. The interiors she already had on screen did not change. The plate mark did: it is the first sheet from that edition that she can hold to the window on Maidstone Road’s grey afternoons.
A kitchen instead of a rooftop
James Okoye’s commission brief asked for a joining origin that would not restage the first assembly. Asha’s thumbnails put the argument in a kitchen. The letterer cut captions until the silence in the panels did the work. Eight weeks later the closing page showed a late arrival who had washed a cup. That is the issue now sitting as joining origin 02 on the ledger, in an edition of 35 because the recap names Assembly Hour One.