Their name and your role, how long they worked there and the arc of it, what they were actually like day to day, and two or three true stories — the great save, the mistake that is safe to tell now. Vague praise makes a vague speech; specific habits and stories make a good one. Anything you do not give us, we mark [ADD FACT] rather than invent.

It is written for the mouth, not the page, and it only uses what you tell it — so it cannot reach for "a true asset to the team" the way a template does. A thin brief gets a thin speech and a good brief gets a good one. Nothing generic gets added to pad it out.

You tell it who is in the room and anything to be careful of, and it honours that completely. It will not joke about anyone's job security, will not guess why someone is retiring, and will not write material about a named colleague beyond the neutral part they played in a story you gave it.

Yes — say what to change and we redo it. A change is a full run of the speech, so it costs pence like any other, about 28p — never more than 40p out of the balance you already hold.

Top up once, then top up again when your balance runs low. Retirement Speech Writer is about 28p — never more than 40p — and you are charged only what it actually used. A job that fails to generate spends nothing at all.