Brand Ledger is the studio of Meagan Morris. You talk to the person doing the work — there is no manager relaying it, and nothing gets decided by someone who wasn't in the room.
The studio takes on a small number of engagements at a time, and still covers the ground it does because the research is systematic rather than sampled — an entire category crawled, ten thousand search queries read, the twentieth variation of a page drafted before one is chosen. The gathering scales. The judgement about what any of it means does not.
We would rather be judged on what happened afterward — the rankings, the citations, the pipeline — than on how the site looked the week it launched.