About us
We help institutions make their standing legible.
TMAK is a consultory for academic reputation. We work with universities and public intellectuals so ranking bodies, peers, and the public can read the same record.
Our purpose
To make academic work visible without inventing the story.
Mission
Help universities and scholars make distinctive, lasting improvements in how they are ranked, cited, and remembered — and to do so with evidence the institution already holds.
Aspiration
A public record in which research, teaching, and mission agree. Standing that a ranking body can score and a student can trust.
Evidence first
The work must already exist. We make it possible to read — we do not invent rankings, citations, or biography.
Independence of view
Counsel that can say no. A brief is declined when the record cannot support the claim.
Confidence kept
What we read in the archive stays in the archive. Public narrative is only what the institution is prepared to stand behind.
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Universities in counsel
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Longest ranking mandate
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Institutional briefs
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Briefs held to term
Who we are
A single consultory, united by the record.
We are designed to operate as one practice: ranking counsel, scholarly narrative, and public record, held to the same standard of evidence.
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Purpose, mission & values
The principles that govern how we take a brief, and what we refuse to invent.
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The method
Rankings counsel, scholarly narrative, and the documents that outlive a news cycle.
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The work
Institutions whose standing we have helped write into the public record.
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Counsel
A conversation with leadership preparing a ranking cycle, a biography, or a public narrative.
Write to usHow we work
From the archive to the ranking table, we partner through the cycle.
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Read the evidence
Output, citations, teaching, and public profile as they stand — not as a campaign would prefer them.
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Write the dossier
Align methodology, narrative, and media so ranking bodies and peers encounter one institution.
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Hold the term
Counsel through the ranking year. Keep the public record current so standing does not lapse between cycles.
Our commitments
Evidence first. Independence of view. Confidence kept.
We put the institution’s interest ahead of a flattering story. We do not invent rankings, citations, or biography. The work must already exist; we make it possible to read.
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