Capability 01 · Published for a reason

Anyone can fill a calendar. Few earn the next click.

Content Marketing builds the system behind the calendar: demand and question research, a topic architecture, briefs your experts can answer in an hour, and production that ships on schedule. It is measured on qualified demand and search visibility, not on how much was published.

Typical set-up
8–12 weeks to a running system
Scope
Editorial · SEO · distribution
Standard
Measured to pipeline
Topic map · Q3Your company

An illustrative topic map: one pillar page linked to three clusters of three pages each, with a brief per piece naming its question, angle, expert and measure.

Pricing models · 3 pages · 2.4k monthly searches · Brief approvedMigration · 3 pages · 1.1k monthly searches · Draft · editor reviewRevenue ops · 3 pages · 1.8k monthly searches · Research Illustrative

What we do · 6 parts

Six moving parts, one editorial engine

Research, planning, production, distribution and measurement run as one loop, so every piece has a job and somewhere to land.

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  1. 01

    Demand & question research

    Search demand, sales objections and support tickets read together, so the plan answers questions customers actually ask.

    Search · sales · support
  2. 02

    Topic architecture

    Pillars, clusters and internal links mapped before anything is written, so pages support each other instead of competing.

    Pillars · clusters
  3. 03

    Editorial calendar & briefs

    A quarterly calendar with a brief per piece: the question, the angle, the evidence, the expert and the measure.

    Quarterly · briefed
  4. 04

    Production with your experts

    Interview-led writing, design and editing, so subject expertise reaches the page without costing your specialists a week.

    Expert-led
  5. 05

    Distribution & repurposing

    Every piece is planned with its distribution: newsletter, social cut-downs, sales enablement and paid budget behind the best of it.

    One piece, many formats
  6. 06

    Measurement & content ops

    Performance by topic and by stage, a quarterly refresh cycle, and a governance model your team can run without us.

    Refresh cycle · governance

How it runs · 4 stages

Twelve weeks to an engine that runs without us

The first cluster ships while the system is still being built, so the plan is corrected by performance rather than by debate.

  1. 01

    Wk 01–03

    Research

    Search demand, customer questions, sales and support themes, competitor coverage, and an inventory of what you already have with its performance.

    • Demand map
    • Content inventory
    • Opportunity list
  2. 02

    Wk 03–05

    Architect

    Pillars, clusters, internal linking and the editorial standard agreed. Briefs written for the first cluster.

    • Topic architecture
    • Editorial standards
    • Brief templates
  3. 03

    Wk 05–11

    Produce

    Interview-led writing, design, review and publication. AI assists research, variants and metadata; a named editor approves everything before it ships.

    • Published cluster
    • Asset library
    • Distribution plan
  4. 04

    Wk 11–12

    Operate

    Handover of the calendar, briefs and dashboard, with a refresh cycle and a quarterly planning rhythm your team owns.

    • Reporting dashboard
    • Refresh backlog
    • Operating rhythm

In practice · topic ledger

Every piece has a question and a reason to exist.

The ledger is the plan: each row is a question real buyers ask, the intent behind it, the expert who answers it and whether search is starting to notice.

Topic ledger · Cluster 025 of 14 questions
Topic ledger · Cluster 02: illustrative sample
Buyer questionIntentExpertBriefSearch visibility
How long does a migration really take? EvaluateHead of deliveryPublishedTop 10 · 4 terms
What does it cost to run per month? DecideFinance leadPublishedTop 20 · 2 terms
Which teams have to change how they work? EvaluateChange leadIn editNot yet indexed
What goes wrong in the first quarter? LearnSupport leadExpert review—
How do we compare vendors fairly? DecideProcurementNeeds data—
Pieces with a named job
14 / 14Every row has a buyer question
Expert time per brief
≈ 1 hrInterview, not a blank page
Qualified visits
+38%Cluster 01, quarter on quarter

Illustrative The real ledger is built from your search data, sales calls and support tickets.

What you get

The engine, not a folder of posts.

You keep the topic architecture, the brief templates your experts answer in an hour, and the dashboard that ties each piece to the demand it earned.

Newspaper features with large illustrations spread open across a dark wooden café table
Long-formwritten to answer a buyer’s question
Content Marketing deliverables and their formats
#DeliverableFormat
01Content strategy & topic architectureDeck · board
02Editorial calendar & brief templatesSheet · Notion
03Published articles, guides & landing pagesCMS pages
04Editorial standards & style guideDocument
05Distribution & repurposing planSheet
06Content performance dashboardDashboard
07Quarterly refresh backlogSheet

What changes

Fewer pieces. More of them doing a job.

Measured against the baseline agreed in week one. These are the aims content is planned against, not guarantees.

  1. Fewer pieces, more weight

    A smaller number of pages, built as clusters, that rank, earn citations and answer the questions that come before a purchase.

  2. Expertise on the page

    Interview-led production turns what your specialists know into published work, without asking them to write it.

  3. A calendar your team can run

    Briefs, standards and a dashboard handed over, so publishing continues at the same standard after the engagement.

Tools we work in

Written in your CMS. Measured in your analytics.

The research, publishing and measurement tools content marketing runs on. Named as tools we use, not partnerships. AI drafts only ever reach an editor, never the site.

  • WordPress
  • Contentful
  • Sanity
  • Webflow
  • Semrush
  • Google Search Console
  • Google Analytics
  • HubSpot
  • Notion
  • Figma
  • Anthropic

Also in use

  • Ahrefs
  • Schema.org
  • OpenAI

Frameworks we build to

Readable, fast, and honest about data.

Frameworks every published page is checked against. We build to them; they are not certifications we hold.

  • WCAG 2.2 AA — Web Content Accessibility Guidelines

    Web Content Accessibility Guidelines

    Heading order, link text, alt text and contrast checked on every template before a single article ships.

  • Core Web Vitals — Loading, interactivity and visual stability

    Loading, interactivity and visual stability

    Article templates held to LCP ≤ 2.5 s, INP ≤ 200 ms and CLS ≤ 0.1 so search visibility is not lost to a slow page.

  • GDPR — General Data Protection Regulation (EU) 2016/679

    General Data Protection Regulation (EU) 2016/679

    Gated assets and newsletter sign-ups collect only what the offer needs, with consent logged per form.

  • DPDP Act 2023 — Digital Personal Data Protection Act, 2023

    Digital Personal Data Protection Act, 2023

    Indian sign-ups get a plain notice, a named purpose and a withdrawal route as easy as the opt-in.

Services & packages

Content with a job to do, published on a schedule.

We build the editorial system and then run it: demand research, a topic architecture, briefs your experts can answer, production that ships weekly, and reporting that shows which topics create demand.

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How to buy

  1. 01Pick services. Enquire about one, or add several to a brief.
  2. 02Choose how to engage. A sprint, a fixed project or an ongoing team.
  3. 03Send the brief. We reply within one working day.

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Timelines are typical. Every quote follows a written scope.

01Strategy & planning

4 services
Typical timeline: 4–6 weeks

Content strategy & topic architecture

A plan built from what your customers search for, ask in sales calls and raise with support, organised into pillars and clusters.

What’s included

  • Search demand and question research
  • Competitor and coverage gap analysis
  • Pillars, clusters and internal linking map
  • Channel and format plan per topic
  • Topic clusters
  • Demand-led
  • Ahrefs

Best forTeams publishing without a plan tied to real demand.

Typical timeline: 2–3 weeks

Editorial calendar & briefs

A quarterly calendar where every piece has a brief: the question it answers, the angle, the evidence, the expert and the measure.

What’s included

  • Quarterly calendar with owners and dates
  • Brief template and worked examples
  • Approval route and publishing checklist
  • Capacity plan against your team
  • Quarterly
  • Briefed

Best forMarketing teams whose calendar is a list of dates and titles.

Typical timeline: 3–5 weeks

Content audit & refresh plan

An inventory of everything you have published with its performance, and a decision per page: keep, update, merge or retire.

What’s included

  • Full inventory with traffic and conversion data
  • Duplication and cannibalisation analysis
  • Keep, update, merge or retire decision per page
  • Redirect plan and prioritised refresh backlog
  • Inventory
  • Refresh
  • Consolidation

Best forSites with years of content and declining performance.

Typical timeline: 2–4 weeks

Buyer question & objection research

The questions and objections that actually precede a purchase, gathered from sales calls, support tickets, reviews and communities.

What’s included

  • Sales and support interviews
  • Review, forum and community mining
  • Question map by buying stage
  • Content and enablement recommendations
  • Voice of customer
  • Objections
  • OpenAI

Best forTeams whose content answers questions nobody is asking.

02Editorial production

5 services
Typical timeline: Ongoing, monthly

Articles, guides & long-form

Useful, accurate writing built on interviews with your experts and edited for both search and the person reading it.

What’s included

  • Expert interviews and research
  • Writing, editing and fact checking
  • On-page optimisation and internal links
  • Publishing in your CMS with imagery
  • Long-form
  • Expert-led

Best forTeams with deep expertise and no time to write it down.

Typical timeline: 2–4 weeks per piece

Thought leadership & bylines

Argued pieces under a named expert’s byline, with a point of view sharp enough to be disagreed with.

What’s included

  • Positioning and topic territory per author
  • Interview-led drafting
  • Editing to an argued point of view
  • Placement support for external bylines
  • Byline
  • Point of view

Best forExecutives who are credible in a room but invisible in print.

Typical timeline: 8–12 weeks

Original research & data reports

A survey or data study of your own, turned into a report, a landing page, a press angle and a season of derivative content.

What’s included

  • Research design and questionnaire
  • Fieldwork or data analysis
  • Report, charts and landing page
  • Press angle and derivative content plan
  • Original data
  • Citable

Best forBrands that need something journalists and analysts will cite.

Typical timeline: 3–5 weeks per story

Customer stories & case studies

Evidence written the way buyers read it: the problem, what was done, what changed, and what it cost to get there.

What’s included

  • Customer interviews and approvals
  • Written story in long and short formats
  • Quote, figure and claim verification
  • Design and publishing
  • Proof
  • Sales enablement

Best forSales teams that keep retelling the same story from memory.

Typical timeline: 2–4 weeks

Landing pages & campaign copy

Pages that carry a campaign’s message through to a conversion, written and designed against one clear action.

What’s included

  • Message and offer hierarchy
  • Copy, layout and supporting proof
  • Form, tracking and consent set-up
  • Variant plan for testing
  • Conversion
  • Campaign

Best forCampaigns sending paid traffic to a page nobody wrote for it.

03Formats & distribution

4 services
Typical timeline: 3 weeks to launch, then ongoing

Newsletter & email editorial

An email people open because it is worth reading, with a format, a cadence and a voice that survive a change of writer.

What’s included

  • Format, cadence and voice definition
  • Written editions on a schedule
  • Segmentation and send strategy
  • Open, click and reply reporting
  • Newsletter
  • Owned audience

Best forBrands with a list they rarely earn attention from.

Typical timeline: 6–10 weeks to launch a series

Video & podcast editorial

An editorial series in video or audio, planned as a format rather than as occasional episodes, with clips built into the plan.

What’s included

  • Format design and episode architecture
  • Guest or topic pipeline
  • Production, edit and clip package
  • Distribution plan per platform
  • Series
  • Clips included

Best forTeams whose audience would rather watch or listen than read.

Typical timeline: Ongoing, monthly

Repurposing & content atomisation

One substantial piece turned into the social, email and sales formats it should have produced in the first place.

What’s included

  • Atomisation plan per flagship piece
  • Social cut-downs and carousels
  • Email and sales versions
  • Publishing calendar for the derivatives
  • One piece, many formats
  • OpenAI

Best forTeams whose best work is published once and forgotten.

Typical timeline: 4–6 weeks

Sales enablement content

The decks, one-pagers, comparison pages and objection responses your sales team actually needs, written from real calls.

What’s included

  • Sales call review and gap analysis
  • Pitch narrative and deck
  • One-pagers, comparisons and FAQs
  • Enablement session with the team
  • Sales
  • Objections
  • Salesforce

Best forSales teams building their own slides the night before.

04Content operations

3 services
Typical timeline: 4–6 weeks

Content operations & governance

The workflow behind publishing: who briefs, who writes, who approves, where assets live and how quality stays consistent.

What’s included

  • Workflow design and roles
  • Editorial standards and style guide
  • Approval routes and legal review path
  • Asset library structure and naming
  • Workflow
  • Standards

Best forTeams where every piece takes a different route to publication.

Typical timeline: 4–6 weeks

AI-assisted content workflow

AI built into the editorial process where it saves real time — research, outlines, variants, metadata, translation drafts — with a person approving every publication.

What’s included

  • Use-case map with what AI will and will not do
  • Prompt and brief templates in your voice
  • Review, approval and disclosure rules
  • Quality checks and a sample audit
  • AI-assisted
  • Human approval
  • OpenAI

Best forContent teams using AI informally, with no standard or review.

Typical timeline: 3–5 weeks

Content performance measurement

Reporting that shows which topics and formats create demand, not just which pages got traffic.

What’s included

  • Content-to-pipeline data model
  • Dashboard by topic, format and stage
  • Refresh and retirement triggers
  • Monthly commentary
  • Topic-level
  • Pipeline

Best forTeams reporting page views to a board that asks about revenue.

Your brief

Tick “Add to brief” on any service, choose a package, then continue. Or enquire about one service directly.

Start a project

Ways to engage. Same team, same standard.

Three ways in, from a two-minute question to a formal RFQ. Each is read in full by the lead for the work, and anything already in your brief goes with it.

Or book a thirty-minute call

What are you sending?

  1. 01

    About 2 minutes4 required answers

    For a first conversation, a press request, or anything that does not need a scope yet.

    You get A reply from a lead, not a sales queue

  2. 02Most useful

    About 8 minutes5 short steps

    Goals, audiences, a budget band and timing. Enough for us to come back with a shape, not only questions.

    You get Options and a first scope after one call

  3. 03

    About 15 minutesYour documents attached

    Your pack, your deadlines, and the procurement and security rules the work must meet.

    You get Receipt confirmed and a named bid lead

How it is priced

Each package shows how it is priced. Every engagement starts with a written scope and a quote agreed before work begins.

  • Typical length
    Ongoing · 6-month minimum
    Pricing
    Monthly fee
  • Typical length
    4–12 weeks
    Pricing
    Fixed price
  • Typical length
    1–3 weeks
    Pricing
    Fixed fee
  • Typical length
    Ongoing · 3-month minimum
    Pricing
    Time & materials
Compare what each package includes
What every engagement package includes, and who it suits
PackageEvery engagement includesBest for
RetainerReserved monthly capacity to run, improve and extend what we built.
  • A reserved block of team time every month
  • Agreed response times for requests and fixes
  • A monthly review and a rolling backlog
  • Continuous improvement, not just upkeep
Brands and products after launch that need a steady team without hiring one
ProjectA defined scope, delivered for a fixed price.
  • Statement of work with deliverables and acceptance criteria
  • A named project lead and a fixed team
  • A shared plan with dated checkpoints
  • Source files and IP transferred on delivery
Work you can describe up front: an identity, a system, a set of tools
SprintOne fixed question, answered in one to three weeks.
  • Scope and outcome agreed before day one
  • One senior lead and the specialists the question needs
  • A working review every week
  • A decision-ready output, not a status deck
Discovery, a diagnostic, a prototype or a decision you need to make soon
SquadA dedicated team working inside your stack, tools and sprint cadence.
  • Named specialists matched to your roadmap
  • Your tools, your rituals, your backlog
  • Scale the team up or down each month
  • Knowledge transfer built in from week one
Teams with a clear roadmap that need more senior hands, fast

Questions

Asked about content, answered plainly.

Anything else, ask us directly. The first conversation is about your goal, not our credentials.

01How much content do we need?

Fewer pieces than most calendars assume. We start with one cluster that covers a buying decision end to end, measure it, then repeat. Volume follows evidence.

02Do you write with AI?

AI helps with research, outlines, variants, metadata and translation drafts. A person writes or rewrites the substance, a named editor approves every piece, and we disclose AI assistance where a platform or your own policy requires it. Nothing is published unreviewed.

03Who owns the content?

You do. Copy, design files, photography and licences transfer to you on delivery, with usage rights recorded per asset.

04How long before content performs?

Internal linking and technical fixes can show within weeks of being recrawled. New clusters typically take three to six months to compound, depending on competition and publishing pace.

05How does this connect to SEO and AI answers?

The same architecture serves both. Clear entities, answer-first structure and cited sources are what ranking systems and answer engines both reward, so rankings and AI-answer citations are tracked against one baseline.

Let’s build what happens next.

Tell us what you’re building. We’ll answer straight.

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Three ways to start

Every engagement starts with a written scope and a quote agreed before work begins.

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