Issue 001 · Founding cohort

The Corridor Brief

Buying-signal intelligence for teams selling into the NHS

Know which trusts are about to buy — before the tender drops.

Every week, trust boards approve spend, publish recovery plans and appoint the people who will hold next year's budgets. It's all in the public record — hundreds of PDFs nobody on your team has time to read. We read them. Every Monday at 07:00 you get the 8–15 signals that matter, each with the source and the window to act.

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The kind of signals we send · illustrative sample

Pre-procurement · Digital & EPR · Midlands

Act now — pre-tender

Acute teaching trust, Midlands

Board approved a full business case for an electronic patient record replacement — £28m over five years — with procurement to begin "this financial year."

You have a window of roughly 8–12 weeks to shape requirements before the tender drops on Find a Tender.

Leadership move · All categories · North West

First 90 days

Large acute trust, North West

New Chief Digital Information Officer starts next month, arriving from a trust that ran a major virtual-ward programme.

New technology leadership re-opens stalled conversations and typically reviews the supplier landscape in the first 90 days.

Financial recovery · Clinical capacity · South East

This quarter

District general hospital, South East

Board papers show a £14m deficit recovery plan that names theatre productivity and waiting-list validation as priority actions.

Recovery plans come with ring-fenced money and deadlines — distress is demand, if you sell capacity or productivity.

How it works

  1. 1

    The machines read everything. Board papers, Find a Tender, Contracts Finder, ICB committee packs, appointment announcements — across a growing panel of trusts and ICBs, every week, without fail.

  2. 2

    An operator filters the noise. Every issue is edited by someone who has sat on the buyer's side of NHS procurement — so a line item on page 214 of a board pack gets recognised for what it is: budget moving.

  3. 3

    Monday, 07:00. The brief lands before your pipeline call. Each signal: what happened, why it's money, the window, and a link to the source document. No commentary padding.

Curated by Karina Malhotra, founder of Acumentice — 3 million patient pathways validated across 27+ NHS organisations.

Founding pricing · first 20 companies, for life

Scout

£149 £99 /month

The weekly brief, every Monday at 07:00.

  • 8–15 curated buying signals per issue
  • Every signal linked to its source document
  • Tagged by category, region and signal type

Field

£349 £249 /month

The brief, plus the data and the fast lane.

  • Everything in Scout
  • Weekly CSV signal feed for your CRM
  • Flash alerts when a window is under two weeks
  • Quarterly 30-minute signal call

Founding cohort is invoiced monthly. Cancel any time. If the first issue isn't worth the month, say so and we'll tear up the invoice.

Hone your signal

Tell us what you sell and where — it shapes what the panel covers and how your signals are tagged. Ninety seconds, then you're on the founding list.

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Regions you care about
Signal types
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