Second Studio

Senior reporting talent, on your bench by September.

Second Studio supplies experienced annual-report designers, native-English editors and ex-Big Four ESG consultants to reporting agencies across Europe and beyond - remote-first, season-committed, and fluent in all regulations.

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The problem

Every reporting season, the same squeeze: more pages than people. Freelancers get booked out by September, briefing them takes weeks, and the Sustainability Statement, now the hardest section in the book, is exactly where most benches are thinnest.

What we supply

Reporting design

Senior designers who live in grids, typography and 200-page documents. Concept to press-ready artwork, InDesign-native, your templates or ours.

Editorial that survives assurance

Native-English writers and editors who draft, restructure and polish annual report copy — including ESRS-aligned Sustainability Statements, DMA disclosures and plain-English rewrites of technical content. We’ve done it all.

English-language review

For agencies producing English versions of reports in other languages, such as German, French, Dutch or Danish: native-speaker editing that makes translated regulatory text read like it was written in English. Because it will have been.

Production & project support

Artworking, proofing cycles, version control, and project coordination — available as an add-on to any engagement.

When agencies call us

The report is beautiful. The sustainability statement is due.

You’ve produced the client’s annual report for years — and now the brief includes a CSRD sustainability statement, with datapoints, a DMA, and an assurance provider asking questions nobody’s been asked before. Our editorial and ESG people draft the statement, structure it to the framework — ESRS, ISSB, TNFD, GRI — and check conformance before it ever reaches assurance. Written to be read; built to be audited.

You have a hundred copywriters. None of them can write this.

Great copy benches, thin on writers who genuinely understand sustainability and how large corporations work. Our editorial bench includes former journalists from global business titles — people who’ve covered these companies and worked inside them — writing about double materiality, transition plans and taxonomy alignment with the fluency of someone who actually knows the subject. No briefing them on what Scope 3 means.

Your designers are brilliant. They’ve just never met a remuneration table.

Brand-side designers thrive on identity work — and stall at a 200-page regulatory document with forty tables, five proofing rounds and an audit deadline. Our reporting designers live there. Financial statements, ESRS datapoint structures, dataviz at document scale, version control through sign-off. We thrive in the pages you’d rather not.

How it works

  1. Tell us the gap.

    Role, weeks, workload.

  2. Meet the person.

    CV, portfolio, a call. No bait-and-switch. The person you meet is the person who works.

  3. Book the season.

    Day rate drops with commitment. One agreement, one invoice. No hassle.

  4. Work starts within a week.

    Remote by default, on-site days by arrangement (travel at cost).

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