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The team you turned around is a story only your skip-level has ever heard.

Engineering leadership work — the hiring plan that fixed a broken team, the incident-response culture you rebuilt, the org design call that actually stuck — is judged almost entirely on faith by anyone outside your current company. Meanwhile Director and VP hiring increasingly happens through network and published thinking, not resumes alone. We turn your real leadership decisions into public visibility that compounds toward your next role, not just your current org chart.

Guarantee: first career-visibility content sprint live in 10 business days — or that sprint is free.
The real problem

Leadership judgment is the hardest thing to prove in an interview loop.

A prospective employer can't sample your leadership judgment before hiring you for it — they're taking it on faith, usually from a handful of reference calls. Meanwhile the engineering leaders who get the best next roles and board seats are increasingly the ones who've published enough real thinking — on hiring, on org design, on incident response — that a hiring committee or a founder can evaluate their judgment independently before the interview loop even starts.

AI can write generic 'lessons in engineering leadership' content. It can't decide which org decision of yours is actually worth explaining.

AI can produce leadership-advice content indistinguishable from a thousand other posts in seconds. It can't mine your actual management history for the hiring call or org-design decision that genuinely paid off, or judge which team story is safe to share without identifying people or breaching confidentiality. That's the judgment layer we add.

"Isn't a strong reputation with my own team and peers enough?"

Internal reputation moves you inside one org. It doesn't reach the hiring committee evaluating your next Director or VP role, the founder considering you for a board seat, or the engineering-leadership community forming opinions about who's actually good at this. You need a public record too.

"Won't posting about leadership decisions expose confidential org details?"

Every piece is built from anonymized patterns and leadership reasoning you explicitly approve — no names, no identifying details, nothing that would surprise your current employer. The point is your judgment, not your org chart.

The system

Six stages. Built for how engineering managers actually get discovered.

01 · Position

The specific leadership judgment you're known for

The kind of team problem you're the right leader for — scaling a team, turning around a struggling one, building process from scratch — specific enough to be memorable at your next level.

02 · Capture

1:1s and retros become raw material

Hiring decisions, org-design calls and incident-response lessons — mined for the thinking you're already doing internally but never publishing, cleared for what's safe to share.

03 · Create

One org decision, weeks of public-facing content

LinkedIn posts, leadership-thinking articles and a newsletter built on the same points of view, so every piece reinforces the same leadership identity.

04 · Publish

A cadence that survives a hard quarter

Scheduled and published consistently, so visibility doesn't stop the moment you're deep in a reorg or a hiring push.

05 · Amplify

Engineering-leadership communities, podcasts and panels

Speaking-proposal support and leadership-community visibility for the ideas specific enough to travel beyond your own org.

06 · Measure

Tied to opportunities, not just views

Every month's report ties content back to actual recruiter outreach, board/advisor invitations and recognition, not vanity engagement metrics.

Why this matters now

Director and VP Engineering hiring runs on network and published thinking, not resumes alone.

Engineering-leadership hiring research keeps landing on the same pattern: search committees and founders weight demonstrated public leadership thinking heavily when evaluating senior engineering-leadership candidates.

73%Of engineering-leadership hiring runs through network and referral, not job boards
2.8xMore inbound recruiter and board-seat outreach for leaders with visible published thinking
71%Of hiring managers use AI search tools to research candidates before an interview
How we prove it

The first 30 days

  1. Week 1 — One 90-minute capture call, mining a recent leadership decision or team turnaround. That's the entire time commitment from you.
  2. Week 2 — Your first content drop goes live: LinkedIn posts and one leadership-thinking article built on real experience.
  3. Day 30 — A Visibility Report: what got seen, what got engagement, what turned into an actual recruiter or board conversation.
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Personal Brand pricing — Engineering Managers & Engineering Leaders

Every tier is scoped to what you actually need — exact numbers are confirmed together on your audit call, not guessed from a menu.

We only take a limited number of new engagements each month, to protect delivery quality for current clients.
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Engineering managers building initial visibility
Confirmed on your audit call
Positioning brief, 1 platform focus, scoped to you
Priced to cost less than a single conference ticket most companies won't expense twice.
  • Career positioning brief
  • Content strategy & plan
  • LinkedIn posts, weekly cadence
  • Basic repurposing
  • Monthly reporting
First sprint live in 10 business days or it's free
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Scale
VPs of Engineering & leaders exploring board/advisory work
Custom
dedicated team · weekly reporting
  • Everything in Grow
  • Executive-level positioning
  • Board/advisor visibility support
  • High-volume, multi-format
  • Named account lead
Named account lead · response-time SLA
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How we'd open this conversation

A few of the hooks we'd test for engineering managers

Sample outreach and ad lines from the messaging library we build for this use case — refined against what actually gets replies.

Before you ask

Common questions

How long is the contract?

Month-to-month after your first sprint — no long-term lock-in. Cancel with 30 days' notice.

Who actually does the work?

A named strategist and editor familiar with engineering leadership, using AI for transcription and first drafts. Nothing publishes without a human reviewing it first.

Will this create problems with my employer or expose team details?

No — every piece is built from anonymized patterns and leadership reasoning you explicitly approve. No names, no identifying org details, nothing that would surprise your current employer.

What happens if you miss the guarantee?

If your first content sprint isn't live within 10 business days of kickoff, that sprint is free — no argument, no fine print.

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