Fractional content leadership for growth-focused teams that need clarity, not more output.

When content is driven by must-do best practices, something your CEO saw work for another company, or the latest “comment SYSTEMS” opt-in making its rounds, it’s easy to publish a lot without anything really lining up.

The teams making real progress are stepping out of that cycle by owning a POV campaigns can orbit — not a slogan lifted from someone else’s deck, but a story they’re willing to commit to.

Once that’s in place, the guilt of “we should post this” and “we should be doing more on LinkedIn” disappears. Content stops feeling like a chore and starts acting like a real PR channel for your company.

Even AI-driven discovery stops feeling like a gamble. Everyone is telling the same story everywhere.

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Ways to Work Together

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    Advisory & Fractional Support

    Weekly or monthly support for teams who want to close the gap between strategy and execution and stop defaulting to reactive, checklist-driven work.

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    Content & Narrative Strategy

    Research-backed positioning, site structure, and editorial direction, grounded in intent data & how people search (SEO, AEO/GEO) — giving teams something to align around.

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    Executive Ghostwriting

    This is too important to leave to ChatGPT. Articles, newsletters, op-eds, and social content, developed in close collaboration so leaders sound credible and like themselves.

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    Demand, Email, & Audience Growth

    Lead gen, newsletter, and lifecycle emails that people actually open, read, and act on, so you build momentum… instead of training people to tune you out. 😬

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    Content Systems & Programs

    Evergreen content paired with launches and campaigns (marketing & comms), designed to meet short-term pipeline goals without sacrificing long-term brand visibility.

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    Editorial & Brand Guidelines

    Swap "we're thrilled..." corporate filler with practical voice and tone guidance to help your brand stand out everywhere you show up — web, email, PR, and exec comms.

Service Bundles

  • This is for you if:

    • You’ve outgrown “just making content” but don’t need or want a full-time hire who has to learn everything the hard way

    • Content, search, PR, and sales enablement exist, but operate in different lanes with no clear handoff or shared story

    • You need someone to own content marketing end to end (yes, even reporting)

    What this looks like in practice:

    You get senior content leadership embedded in your team. Someone who owns the story, stays close to the work, and helps the team adapt when priorities change.

    This includes:

    • A clear story and consistent POV the whole team can use across web, search, sales, and thought leadership

    • A custom, cross-channel content strategy shaped around how your business actually sells and grows

    • Regular strategy sessions to set priorities, review what’s working, and adjust as needed

    • Clear direction on what to build, pause, or stop — so effort compounds

    • Ongoing decision support as launches happen, requests come in, and priorities shift

    • Systems & workflows that make execution easier

    How we work together:

    • Embedded partnership, not drop-in consulting or drive-by recommendations

    • Regular strategy sessions (typically weekly or biweekly)

    • Asynchronous feedback and guidance between sessions

    • Shared workspace (Slack, Notion, Google Drive) to keep strategy, decisions, and resources in one place

  • This is for you if:

    • Sales and exec conversations sound sharper than your website

    • You want recognition, not just reach

    • You’re tired of content that sounds right but goes nowhere

    What that turns into, in practice:

    Depending on what you need, outputs can include: social posts and a posting strategy, newsletters, video concepts or scripts, op-eds, long-form articles, or executive bylines.

    Some teams want this fully done-for-you. Others prefer a done-with-you model, where I shape the thinking, structure, and drafts, and your team stays close to the execution. Both work. What matters is that the content holds together.

    What we focus on:

    • Belief-driven ideas (not hot takes)

    • Clarity and consistency, even as formats and channels change

    • Upstream indicators that tell you it’s landing: recognition in real conversations, branded search lift, when your ideas start showing up in AI answers

  • This is for you if:

    • Sales conversations start mid-stream, and you need content that does the warming up

    • You want a newsletter that shapes how people think, not just what they click

    • You’re tired of explaining why your lifecycle emails haven’t really been touched since 2019

    What you get:

    • A custom newsletter strategy with a clear job to do at each stage of the buying journey

    • A distinct, recognizable POV your audience comes to expect

    • Subject lines and body copy written to earn opens & clicks

    • Content written for real readers first, while still holding up across search and AI-driven discovery

    • Editorial guidance on voice and consistency, so the newsletter reinforces how your brand shows up everywhere else

    • Integration with your broader content ecosystem, to ensure email supports your website, search presence, and thought leadership

  • Workshops are hands-on, discussion-heavy, and rooted in real examples from your market. We use your content, your competitors, your data, and the realities that slow decisions and dilute good ideas.

    No hypotheticals. No generic frameworks.

    Format:

    ½ day · Full day · Multi-session engagements – Customized to team size, maturity, and goals.

    Topics:

    SEO, AEO, & the New Visibility Stack – How Google, LLMs, and human distribution overlap, and what this means for content planning.

    We cover:

    • How traditional SEO, AI search (AEO/GEO), and social discovery interact in practice

    • What actually makes content citable by LLMs

    • How intent patterns that show up differently in search vs AI tools

    • Structuring pages so they work for humans and machines

    • What to track when rankings aren’t the whole story anymore

    Define Your Story Sprint – Clarify an owned POV before you invest in more content.

    We cover:

    • Identifying borrowed language vs owned positioning

    • Surfacing the questions customers ask before they ever convert

    • Translating strategy into usable narrative pillars

    • Pressure testing messaging against real buying moments

    • Deciding what not to say (and why that matters)

    AI & Content Workflows – Using AI to scale what works, without losing your voice. This session focuses on AI as a diagnostic and amplification tool, not a replacement for judgment.

    We cover:

    • Where AI is genuinely useful in research and planning

    • How to use AI to surface gaps, inconsistencies, and weak spots in your content before customers or sales do

    • What it takes to protect voice, quality, and credibility when AI enters the workflow

    • Practical ways teams are drafting, editing, and repurposing content without losing coherence

    • What not to automate (even if you can)