One of Stem Legal’s first clients was Quickscribe; a local BC company who offers an exceptional hard copy and web-based update service for provincial legislation. Although the vast majority of Stem clients are lawyers or law firms, I’ve always tried to make a few exceptions, especially when the concept was interesting or the people enjoyable to work with. Mike Pasta & Quickscribe fit the bill on both parts.

But my personal satisfaction aside, Quickscribe also represented a big challenge – they were competing with the BC Government. Despite the fact that Quickscribe was reporting legislative changes faster, innovating faster technologically (seen the BC Legislation Portal?), and had better pricing, they have an uphill challenge to compete for exposure. And that’s ok; the fact that an awareness challenge exists isn’t a surprise to anyone in the Quickscribe camp. But strategy wise, what was needed was to quantify the advantages that Quickscribe offered. We needed an independent third party.

To that end, we engaged Connie Crosby to produce a report to:

1) objectively compare the two services; and
2) tell us how to improve our end product for the future.

That report was released today.

Now this isn’t to say the there aren’t a few blemishes exposed on the part of both products … there clearly are. But in the end, and after a few discussions with Mike, this report ends up siding with Quickscribe as a solid alternative. And the fact that we’re exposing some of the challenges to delivering a better product? Let’s just call that transparency, and a bit of added integrity to the process.

The report can speak for itself.