Chapter One
One student, one Gmail account, and the discovery that thesis season creates demand faster than any marketing course teaches.
Research Scribe opened with one offer: survey responses for thesis questionnaires on Google Forms, delivered against deadlines that felt impossible to the students holding them. Section I heard about it first.
Clients who bought data soon asked who could analyse it. Code files for SPSS and Excel followed, then software runs, then full survey analysis. February to May became the peak months of the whole operation.
Introductions first, then chapters, then complete theses, survey design, formatting, and final presentation decks. The catalog grew into whatever a final year student would pay for.
Distribution ran on email blasts to LSE student inboxes and broadcasts into WhatsApp groups, amplified by word of mouth. One founder became two when Nawazish Ali Khan came aboard as Chief Research Adventurer. Orders lived on a shared Microsoft To Do list, accounts on a Google Sheet, planning on Google Meet calls between classes.
Research Scribe joined hands with a second student operation, a Turnitin check and academic writing service run by four friends, the founder among them, over a WhatsApp group that grew past 400 members. Together the reach went beyond LSE to NUST, IBA, PIFD, FAST and LUMS.
The books said profit. The founder's own ledger, sleep, academics, future planning, said the price was higher than the income. After graduation the accounts were closed, the email deleted, the number retired, the group link reset. What remains is this site.