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Founder PR · Podcast tours · Reporter outreach · Newsletters · AI citations

PR that gets you into podcasts, press and newsletters, pitched every single week.

You are already sitting on stories worth coverage. Our job is finding them and putting them in front of the people your buyers listen to, week after week, until they land.

One senior publicist, about a decade in, works your account personally: the podcast tour booked show by show, reporters pitched with angles cut from work you already own, guest essays placed in the newsletters your niche actually reads.

Every pitch goes out under a real name and every placement lands in your monthly report with the outlet, the date, and the real reach. No advertising-value-equivalent math, no activity theatre. When a pitch dies, you see that too.

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This week, on the desk

  • MONpodcast pitch out · founder angle
  • TUEtrade press · data angle, reporter replied
  • WEDnewsletter essay · with the editor
  • THUfollow-ups · week one's three
  • FRIboard updated · report row added

A sample week, not a client’s. The full four-week board, including what went quiet, is below.

The pitch board

Four weeks of pitching, including what went quiet.

This is the tracker we keep for your account, shown on a sample month. Most pitches go quiet, a few advance, and the placements that land in week four are the pitches from week one. The cadence is the service. No outlet names here because these aren’t real placements; on your board, every row names the outlet.

A sample four-week PR pitch tracker: fourteen pitches across podcasts, trade press, newsletters and local news, with statuses from pitched through live, including no-replies and a decline.
Pitch tracker · sample month14 pitches · 4 weeks

WK 01

  • Podcast

    the founder's contrarian take, pitched to shows in your niche

    PITCHED
  • Trade press

    a data angle cut from work you already own

    PITCHED
  • Newsletter

    a guest essay matched to the list's running theme

    PITCHED

WK 02

  • Podcast← W1

    follow-up on week one's three, new angle attached

    FOLLOW-UP
  • Trade press← W1

    reporter replied, asked for the underlying numbers

    REPLIED
  • Local news

    the local-economy angle, pitched to the city desk

    PITCHED

WK 03

  • Podcast← W1

    one show booked, recording scheduled

    BOOKED
  • Newsletter← W1

    week one's essay pitch went quiet

    NO REPLY
  • Trade press← W2

    editor passed: wrong quarter for the topic. Logged for Q1

    DECLINED
  • Newsletter

    second list, same essay, sharper subject line

    PITCHED

WK 04

  • Podcast← W1

    week one's pitch is a published episode with your name on it

    LIVE
  • Trade press← W2

    the data piece is with the reporter's editor

    REPLIED
  • Newsletter← W3

    second list said yes, essay drafting

    BOOKED
  • Local news← W2

    city desk went quiet, follow-up queued

    FOLLOW-UP

14 pitched · 2 booked · 1 live · 2 quiet or declined. An honest month looks like this, and every row lands in your report

You see this board every week, not a quarterly recap. When a pitch dies, you know; when one lands, you know which week’s work earned it.

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Press kit · inside cover

PR services, end to end. Public relations, not just press releases.

Pages 03 - 19 · 05 sections

The Grovant Press·Inside this kit
Vol. 01 · Issue 04
  1. IP. 03
    .tour

    Podcast tour booking

    Researched shows, warm intros, no cold blasts. You show up to record. Your operator runs outreach, the hook, the host brief, and a clip pack for the day it airs.

    Cadence

    Researched targets, warm intros

  2. IIP. 07
    .pitch

    Reporter outreach

    Beat reporters your operator already reads. Every pitch written for one reporter, not a bought list. Embargoes when your story needs them. No spray.

    Cadence

    Weekly · curated

  3. IIIP. 11
    .slot

    Newsletter placements

    Paid slots where your buyers read, plus earned mentions in the newsletters that move your category. You see the audience before you spend.

    Cadence

    Monthly · earned + paid

  4. IVP. 15
    .ghost

    Founder LinkedIn ghostwriting

    Your point of view, in your voice, every week, plus a reply strategy on the accounts that matter. Your operator builds the following you own.

    Cadence

    Weekly · your voice

  5. VP. 19
    .file

    Awards and lists

    Forbes 30 Under 30, Inc 5000, Fast Company, your industry shortlists. Your operator keeps the calendar and files on time. Wins become proof points in sales calls.

    Cadence

    Quarterly · submission cal.

Standard issue · 2026

AI-citation tracked as a KPI. Weekly · ChatGPT, Perplexity, Gemini.

  • Citation footprint
  • Branded-search lift
  • Entity coverage
  • Share of voice

One senior owns the narrative end to end. Hire branding and PR services on their own, never a forced bundle. The same team does marketing, design, and dev across 8 practices if you want more.

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Placement log · sample format

Six fields. Named, dated, checkable.

Your monthly report logs every media placement: outlets named, dates stamped, reach you can check. No AVE. This layout is a sample, not results.

Report format · what each row records

Placement log·The fields you get
Exported to your inbox
  • Podcast

    Outlet

    Show name, tier band, and the episode you appeared on.

    NamedField
  • Print

    Headline

    The headline as it ran, with a live link.

    LinkedField
  • News

    Tier

    Tier 1 or tier 2, banded the same way every month.

    BandedField
  • Newsletter

    Date

    The date it published, stamped, never rounded.

    StampedField
  • Podcast

    Reach

    Real audience from the named outlet. No AVE.

    ReportedField
  • Print

    Status

    Confirmed, scheduled, or in outreach.

    TrackedField

Every month: outlets named, dates stamped, reach you can verify.

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Narrative audit · sample finding set

What we read before we pitch a reporter.

Branding services start with brand strategy: every engagement opens with a free audit of your positioning and presence. The gaps below become your first sprint. You see where you stand before you owe anything.

Audit memo · sample finding set
Exported to your inbox
  • CRITICAL
    Messaging house
    No documented positioning doc. Three different one-liners across LinkedIn, deck, and homepage.
  • CRITICAL
    Founder online presence
    LinkedIn at 18 posts in 12 months. No X. No podcast appearances on record.
  • GAP
    Earned media · 12 mo
    Two mentions. Both newsletter inclusions, no tier-1 outlets.
  • GAP
    AI-citation footprint
    Brand does not surface in representative ChatGPT queries for the category.
  • GAP
    Awards calendar
    Eligible for at least two category award cycles this year. No submissions filed.
  • NOTED
    Crisis playbook
    No documented response plan. Founder named as default spokesperson, no media training logged.

A full finding set lands in your inbox inside four business days, free.

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Editorial standards · in writing
Standards I to IV

The Grovant Press · Masthead standards

Four standards.
Signed before a pitch ships.

  1. I

    Your senior is named on the work

    The operator who runs your tour is named in the contract and on every pitch. No handoff. One named owner signs every deliverable.

  2. II

    Mutual NDA and non-disparagement, signed first

    Signed before we touch your story. We never pitch you as a logo, and never pitch your competitors while we work with you. Your edge stays yours.

  3. III

    No AVE, no PR-value math

    Real numbers: placements named, share of voice, branded-search lift, AI-citation footprint. No multipliers. Hand the report to your board and defend every line.

  4. IV

    Tier-banded targets, not empty guarantees

    No honest firm guarantees TechCrunch. You get a committed count by tier. Miss the band, we work the next month on us.

Editor's mark

You can leave after the first sprint. We'd rather you stay because the placements keep landing.

Editorial budget · press sprint

Four story slots. On the budget, every Friday.

Issue No. 04 · slots 01 - 04

The Grovant Press·Editorial budget
Sprint cycle · every Friday
  1. S-01

    Story slot

    Discovery

    Phase one

    Owner · Senior operator

    We draft your messaging house and test three angles with you. Your operator builds the outlet long-list and sets the embargo policy.

    • Messaging house v1
    • Outlet long-list
    • Beat reporter map

    Deadline

    By Friday

    in production
  2. S-02

    Story slot

    Outreach

    Phase two

    Owner · Senior operator

    Podcast targets locked. First pitches go out, tier-1 first. Your LinkedIn cadence starts. Embargoed previews where your story warrants.

    • Tier-1 pitches sent
    • Podcast outreach live
    • LinkedIn live

    Deadline

    By Friday

    live
  3. S-03

    Story slot

    Landing

    Phase three

    Owner · Senior operator

    Your first placement or podcast confirms. A newsletter slot locks. Bylines drafted. Your AI-citation footprint gets a baseline.

    • First placement
    • Newsletter slot
    • AI-citation baseline

    Deadline

    By Friday

    pending
  4. S-04

    Story slot

    Recap

    Phase four

    Owner · Account lead

    Your clip book gets assembled. Share of voice and branded-search lift reported. Next sprint scoped with named outlets and fresh angles.

    • Clip book v1
    • SoV delta report
    • Next sprint scoped

    Deadline

    By Friday

    queued
Production sheet · ready by Friday 15:00NDAs in place · 04 / 04

Your audit lands in 4 business days, free. Then your first sprint runs to a schedule you can see.

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PR questions

What people ask before handing over the narrative.

Plain answers on PR services cost, reporters, booking, contracts, and who does the work.

  • No, and nobody honest does: editors and hosts decide what runs. What we guarantee is the work you can check: pitches out every single week under a real name, follow-ups on schedule, and a board that shows every pitch and its status, including the ones that went quiet. The cadence is what makes placements land.

  • There is no rate card. The free narrative audit finds the stories worth pitching, and the placement plan that comes back carries a custom quote scoped to the outlets that matter for your buyers. Month to month, no long contract.

  • Podcasts usually book within weeks because hosts need guests; press and newsletters take longer because editors work in cycles. The pitch board shows the pipeline every week, so you watch pitches advance instead of waiting for a quarterly surprise. Week four placements are typically week one pitches, landed.

  • Roughly an hour for the narrative audit, async approvals on every angle before it goes out, and your calendar for the recordings and interviews that get booked. The pitching, follow-up, and prep all happen without you.

  • One senior publicist, about a decade in, under their own name, and they sign every pitch. No junior farm blasting a list, no coordinator between you and the person doing the work. You approve every angle before it reaches a reporter or host.

  • Almost every company sits on more story than it thinks: data only you have, a contrarian way you run things, the founder's path, a customer pattern nobody has written about. The narrative audit exists to find those and rank them by which outlets would care. Trade and niche outlets come first; they are where your buyers actually read.

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