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Long reads, frameworks and field notes from inside the studio — for marketers and founders working out what their content should actually be doing.

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Featured · Brand voice · 12 min read

The case for one editorial system: why your company brand and your founders' brand should never run separately again.

Modern audiences buy from companies they recognise — and from people they trust. That used to be two strategies. Here's how to build them as one connected system without doubling your agency budget — the same approach behind our connected content service and case study results.

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Long reads & field notes.

01
Founder content · 8 min

The 90-minute method: how we capture a founder's voice without sounding like every other ghostwriter.

The structured discovery process behind every personal-brand engagement we run — and why it makes ghostwriting actually defensible.

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02
SEO · 11 min

Topic clusters in the AI-search era: what's still working in 2026.

How topic-cluster strategy needs to adapt now that ChatGPT and Perplexity are siphoning click-through — without abandoning what made it work.

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03
Brand voice · 7 min

Why your brand voice document doesn't work — and the structure that does.

Most voice guides are decorative. The five components that turn a voice document into something a writer can actually write against.

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04
LinkedIn · 9 min

Founder LinkedIn in 2026: the formats earning attention now.

What's working on LinkedIn for founders this year — and the formats burnt out by overuse — based on the posts we've published in the last 12 months.

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05
Editorial process · 6 min

The two-rounds-of-revisions principle.

Why we bake two rounds of edits into every retainer instead of charging per round — and what it does to the quality of the final piece.

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06
Content strategy · 10 min

Content as a system, not a calendar.

An editorial calendar tells you what to publish. A content system tells you why each piece exists, and what it earns the next one.

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07
Ghostwriting · 8 min

The ethics of executive ghostwriting (and why we don't apologise for it).

Ghostwriting has always existed at the top of every industry. The line worth defending is whether the ideas are genuinely the principal's.

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08
Reports · 5 min field note

What 50 founder-LinkedIn engagements taught us about cadence.

The number of posts per week most founders should actually be doing — and the cliff where extra posting hurts inbound quality.

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09
Translation · 7 min

Localisation isn't translation: how to keep one voice across 12 markets.

Why word-for-word translation kills brand voice — and the framework we use to localise without flattening the personality out of the copy.

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