Confidentiality is not a clause added at the end of a conversation. It is the way the conversation is organised from the first minute.
Everyone claims discretion. Very few structures are built for it. The claim costs nothing; the structure costs capacity.
Each person added to a project multiplies the ways a name can circulate. A small practice is not a limitation of scale, it is a containment of risk.
Requests are answered personally. There is no queue, no account team, and no summary written by someone who never met the person concerned.
No client is named, quoted or displayed. The absence of testimonials on this site is not an oversight; it is the same standard applied to itself.