Become a ClearBox reviewer

We’re looking for more people to join our team of reviewers for our future reports, reviewing employee apps and intranet platforms. ClearBox is only a small consultancy firm, and we need support from critically minded, passionate writers to help us cover the breadth of products we feature in our reports.

What being a reviewer involves

Each review takes between one and two-and-a-half days to complete. This includes writing, responding to editing recommendations, and sharing with your assigned vendors. During a demo we expect you to identify the great (and less great) features of the app, product, or platforms. Afterwards you need to be able to express your thoughts cohesively and coherently – while we want to know what something does, it’s more important to express how well it does it.

We fact-check everything with vendors, so managing that relationship and related conversations is also important. Of course, we also need people who can meet deadlines so that we can keep pushing towards launch.

“I’ve been a ClearBox reviewer for several years now and I find the experience enriching and rewarding. It’s a great way to learn about new products and new trends in a rapidly evolving market. I also enjoy being part of an international team of experts that produces one of the industry’s most significant reports.” – Guy Van Leemput, Intranet and Digital Workplace Consultant

How we support you

We assign each product to a reviewer, so you and the vendor have a consistent experience. We template everything, provide guidance, offer a training session at the start of the process, and will shadow you through your first reviews. We’re always on hand to answer questions too, and we welcome queries as they may help the wider reviewing team.

We pay for your time, of course, and you gain the benefit of experience of a variety of platforms during the process.

What to do

Have a read through of our latest report on Intranet and Employee Experience Platforms, which is available for free.

Look at the ‘full reviews’, such as Akumina, ThoughtFarmer, Happeo, or Interact. If you find the type of content interesting and think, “Yeah, I could write that,” then please get in touch with me. You’re welcome to DM me via LinkedIn or email me instead ([email protected]).

I’m really proud of the reports we produce, particularly as we’ve been able to release the latest for free. The vendors who take part appreciate the level of detail we go into, and our reviewers get a huge amount of insight into the industry. It’s a lot of work, but it’s extremely rewarding and benefits the digital workplace industry as a whole.