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The INDS™ Licensing Programme gives law firms, HR consultancies, corporate legal departments, and professional associations the right to use the Integrated Neutral Dispute System™ methodology internally — training their own people to apply it, running INDS™-standard evaluations within their practice, and carrying the INDS™ mark in their client-facing materials. The world's most sophisticated neutral evaluation methodology — available for institutional adoption.
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The most scalable form of any proprietary methodology is not delivering it yourself. It is licensing the standard — and letting trained practitioners inside other organisations apply it. When a law firm, corporate legal department, or HR consultancy licenses INDS™, they are not just adopting a process. They are adopting the most sophisticated, structured, documented neutral evaluation system in the world.
Every institution that licenses INDS™ can say something no competitor can match: "We evaluate commercial disputes using the INDS™ Integrated Neutral Dispute System — the proprietary methodology of TheNeutrals.ORG™." That is a credential. That is a differentiator. That is a reason a client chooses them over every other firm on the panel.
Enquire about licensing →Three licence components. All included in the annual fee.
INDS™ Practitioner Training
A structured 3-day practitioner training programme — delivered in-person or live online — that certifies nominated practitioners to apply the INDS™ methodology, use the INDS-BF™ framework, score the INDS-RG™ risk grid, and produce the full 11-section INE Report. Up to 4 practitioners per licence year included.
INDS™ Institutional Licence
The right to use the INDS™ mark in client-facing materials, propose INDS™-standard evaluations to clients, and use the INE Report format as the output standard for dispute evaluation engagements. Annual use licence. Renewed annually. Audited for standards compliance.
INDS™ Corporate Toolkit
The full documented methodology — all 6 stages, all 4 sub-frameworks with scoring guides, the 11-section report template, the intake form, the risk grid scoring worksheet, and the settlement feasibility scoring model. All updated annually. Includes the INDS-BF™ signal identification guide for practitioners.
Structured for law firms, corporate legal teams, and HR consultancies.
Boutique Practitioner Licence
Full methodology access. Training for up to 2 practitioners. INDS™ mark usage. INE Report format. Corporate Toolkit. Ideal for independent ADR practitioners, boutique dispute consultancies, and specialist counsel.
Professional Firm Licence
Full methodology access. Training for up to 4 practitioners. Team-level deployment documentation. INDS™ mark usage across firm materials. Priority support and annual methodology briefing with the TheNeutrals.ORG™ team.
Enterprise Licence
Full methodology access. Unlimited practitioners trained annually. Custom deployment support. INDS™ mark usage at enterprise level. Priority appointment to the INDS™ Advisory Panel. Quarterly methodology update calls with the TheNeutrals.ORG™ team.
Four institution types. One methodology standard.
Law firms & chambers
Dispute resolution, employment, and commercial teams who want a structured, branded methodology that differentiates their practice from every other firm on the panel. INDS™ gives them the vocabulary, the process, and the credential.
Corporate legal departments
GC offices managing high-frequency commercial disputes who want their in-house team trained to apply a consistent, structured, defensible evaluation methodology before instructing external counsel.
HR consultancies & OD firms
Organisational development and HR consulting firms who work with corporations on partner relationship management, distributor networks, and internal conflict — and who need a behavioural intelligence framework (INDS-BF™) that internal teams cannot replicate.
Professional associations & institutes
Bodies representing mediators, arbitrators, procurement professionals, or legal executives who want to offer their members access to the INDS™ methodology as part of their CPD or professional standards programme.
The world's most sophisticated neutral evaluation methodology — available for institutional adoption.
Six stages. Seven principles. Four proprietary sub-frameworks. The INDS™ Integrated Neutral Dispute System is the only structured, reproducible, documented methodology for independent neutral evaluation in the world. Now available for firms, departments, and institutions to adopt, train, and deploy internally.