For startup founders

Great story. No one telling it.

You're Series A to D. The product works, and you're still the whole sales team. Customers, candidates and investors check you out long before they talk to you.

The job changed

You'd rather be building.

At Series A and beyond, growth depends on you talking. Customers, hires and investors judge the company by its founder.

Then
Build the product
Land the first customers
Now
Build the product
Raise the next round
Win new investors
Attract top talent
Close bigger deals
Lead a growing team
Be the face of the company

Your voice is now part of the product.

Who's checking you out

Everyone looks you up first.

Before the first call, they read your site, your profile and your posts. Here's what they think when they find nothing.

“Nothing told me who's behind it or what they believe. I deleted the email.The prospect · VP of operations
“Every startup says they're changing the world. They gave me no reason to believe them.The candidate · Senior engineer
“Nothing told me why this team wins. I passed for now.The investor · Venture fund partner
“I never got a sense of what makes them different. Hard to recommend that.The partner · Head of partnerships
“I can't point anyone to anything that explains why we matter.Your team · Product manager
“No point of view I could find. My audience wants opinions, not pitches.The event organizer · Conference director

Nobody tells you why they went quiet. They just stop replying.

A day in the life

Everything at once.

You're building something big. Some days it's all happening before lunch.

01
The grind

Investor update at 7. A customer escalation at 10. At 3, your top candidate turns down the offer. Product review at 9 p.m.

02
The thrill

A big logo signs. The team ships something great. A demo lands and the whole room leans in.

03
The goal

An exit or an IPO. Done the right way, it's lucrative for you, your team and your investors.

The companies that sell for the most are the ones the market already knows.

What we hear

Sound familiar?

Four gaps slow down growing startups. Here's how each one sounds inside the company.

1No plan behind the message
“Ask five people what we do. You'll get six answers.
“Sales rewrote our pitch. I found out from a customer.
“We changed positioning three times this year. Twice on purpose.
2No game plan for the sales team
“Our best rep wins on charm. The rest wing it.
“I'm still the only one who can answer “Why you?”
“When deals stall, reps send “Checking in.” Again.
3No time for the founder to be visible
““Post on LinkedIn” has been on my list for eight months.
“My last post announced our funding. My mom liked it.
“I have opinions. I don't have Thursday afternoons.
4No voice for the leadership team
“Our CTO is brilliant. Outside, nobody knows his name.
“I asked each leader for one article. We got zero.
“If the founder isn't posting, the company goes quiet.
What you've tried

Your options for content.

Each one covers part of the job. None of them covers all of it.

Hire a head of content

Nobody wants to plan and execute at the same time. They'll want to plan, then hire writers to do the rest.

Hire a large agency

A senior team in the pitch, then junior writers on your account. Expect months before they understand your market.

Write it yourselves

You've probably tried this. It works for a few weeks, then everyone gets busy.

Do nothing

Your competitors keep showing up while you stay quiet. They tell the story of your category, and you pay for it in lost deals.

What's at stake

You built the better product. A rival with a weaker one keeps winning the deal, the hire and the room.

The best product doesn't win. The best-known company does.

What you actually need

What would help.

Strip it all back and the list is short.

✓One clear story everyone in the company can tell.
✓A plan for what to say, to whom, every month.
✓Content your reps send to answer objections and close.
✓Your leaders in front of customers, hires and investors every week.
✓Writers who know tech, so you're not explaining your category from scratch.
✓45 minutes a month of your time, and you approve every piece.
What a founder told us
“I'm getting new clients from the content, and a lot of them are inbound. Companies are reaching out to me first.”
Founder, executive search firm
Our services

Plan the story. Then arm the team.

Four services built for Series A to D companies. Each one stands on its own.

The Unforgettable Story Blueprint
Ask five people what we do. You'll get six answers.

We define what you stand for, how to say it to each audience and your next six months of content.

The Unstoppable Sales Library
Half our pipeline dies after the second call.

Articles and case studies that answer your top objections. Your reps send them, and your site publishes them.

The Visionary Voice
“Post on LinkedIn” is still on my list.

We turn one 45-minute interview a month into weekly LinkedIn posts and articles, all in your voice.

The Visionary Voices
If the founder isn't posting, we go quiet.

The same weekly program for your top three leaders, all telling one company story.

How it works

45 minutes a month.

One interview powers everything. That's why it sounds like you.

01
Talk

A 45-minute interview each month.

02
Capture

Your views, stories and lessons go into your Client Brain.

03
Create

We write, design, schedule and track a month of content.

04
Approve

You review and sign off. Nothing goes live without you.

We create and publish. We never comment or reply for you. Your conversations stay yours.

Proof

Founders who got known.

Our longest-running clients are founder-led firms. Like you, the founder had to be the face of the company to grow it.

Founder-led executive search firm: industry image
Case study
796,882 impressions in 90 days, and two new searches that came to her

Weekly posts in the founder’s voice took her from 22,420 to 161,546 impressions a month, 7.2 times where she started. New clients now reach out first, and many of them arrive inbound.

Read the case study
Founder-led search firm: industry image
Case study
4.09 million impressions, 72% of them from people outside his network

269 posts in 12 months earned 4.09 million impressions and reached 26 times more people than he has followers. Prospects call to say they love his posts, and some of those calls become deals.

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Founder-led recruiting firm: industry image
Case study
1.2 million impressions in 12 months, and dozens of new connection requests a week

350 posts in 12 months earned 1.2 million impressions and reached 399,565 people, 27 times his follower count. His followers grew 23%, and his point of view is now what people know him for.

Read the case study
Why 26 Characters

Fortune 500 discipline. Startup speed.

Five things worth knowing before you book a call.

01
Content is all we do

We love creating content that helps founders, leaders and sales teams communicate clearly.

02
We move as fast as you do

Your story is on paper in about four weeks. Your first posts go live soon after.

03
Built for review

The Fortune 500 programs we run clear brand and legal review. Yours can too.

04
Six things from you

A signed agreement, an hour for kickoff, your decks and docs, posting access and 45 minutes a month.

05
Every service stands on its own

Start with the story, or start where the pain is worst.

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