Writing Sample 01 · LinkedIn · Single Post
THE FOUNDER
STORY
A brilliant operator with a dead LinkedIn. He had the war stories — a near-shutdown, the lessons that came with it — but every draft read like a press release. So we wrote the one he was too proud to post. It became his most-shared post ever, by 10×.
Sample anonymized & shared with permission. Representative of voice & range — your work stays yours.
The ask
He had the rarest thing in tech — a genuinely good story — and the most common problem: every time he sat down to write it, it came out sounding like a quarterly update. He wanted to sound human without oversharing, and to do it without spending Sundays staring at a blinking cursor.
The voice
Plainspoken, a little self-deprecating, allergic to buzzwords. We built the post around one true moment and one earned lesson — no "agree?", no humble-brag, no twelve-slide carousel. Just the story told the way he'd actually tell it across a bar table at 11pm.
The result
His most-engaged post ever, by an order of magnitude. It put 14,000 new followers and 30-plus inbound conversations in his lap inside a week — two of which became partnerships. More importantly, it gave him a repeatable way to sound like himself on demand.
One concrete number. One specific day. Zero adjectives. The reader doesn't decide to keep reading — they're already three lines in before they notice. We tested eight openers; the confession beat the clever ones every time.
WHAT I DELIVERED
- 01
Voice extraction
Two interviews plus a read of his old posts and Slack to capture exactly how he talks — cadence, tics and all.
- 02
The hook
Eight opening lines drafted and pressure-tested; the runway confession won by a mile.
- 03
The post
A tight 180-word story engineered to stop the scroll and earn the comment — not just the like.
- 04
The system
A repeatable hook-and-lesson framework so post #2 shipped without me hovering over his shoulder.