A content agency  ·  for business owners

Become known, liked, and trusted by the right buyers.

The best leads have always been referred. They arrive warm, already trusting you. But referrals cannot be scheduled or scaled. Charcoal writes the content that earns that same trust at scale, and turns the right readers into real conversations.

People buy people

01 / The philosophygo deeper ↗︎

We believe that people buy from people. As the old adage goes “we buy on emotion and justify with logic”, your customers are deciding to work with you based on a feeling of trust and connection. The easiest way to get to that emotional place with a prospect is from a referral. The problem, referrals are hard to scale. As a business owner or leader, you have a lot on your plate and adding more networking may not be a high priority.

In our opinion and experience, the best way to create more trust relationships outside of referrals, is with content. Content does a few things at once, it builds knowledge of you and your brand, it builds likability and trust, and most importantly it reaches people you otherwise could not. Our experience shows content has to hit three areas in order to create leads.

First

Known

The buyer recognizes your name and your face in the context of the problem you solve. That's the job of a consistent, visible short-form presence.

Then

Liked

Content lets people form an actual impression of the person behind the business. Sharing humor, your story, and your business expertise all help build likability with your ICP.

Finally

Trusted

Sharing knowledge and value openly shows people you know your craft and will tell them the truth. This builds trust.

Why "Charcoal"? Because charcoal is something you have to make. Great content has to be made with time and effort. Charcoal when you have it, burns hotter, cleaner, and longer. Organic content does the same for your personal brand and business, it takes longer to get results, but once you have them they last and produce for much longer than other quick fixes.

Your voice, but better

02 / How it worksgo deeper ↗︎

We build one system that turns what you already know into the content your buyers are looking for.

The first month is discovery: four working sessions, and no content is produced yet — this is where we learn you. We spend real time understanding how you actually talk, what you believe, what your buyers ask before they buy, and what you find funny. We rebuild your LinkedIn profile so that the right person landing on it knows within seconds whether you are for them. And we map the questions your buyers are typing into Google and AI tools right now, because those questions become the roadmap for everything we write.

Every month after that, the system runs. You talk, we write, you publish.

Short form / LinkedIn

Become the owner your buyers already know

A consistent, human presence in the feed your buyers scroll every morning. Posts written from your real stories, your strongest opinions, and the way you actually joke. Only about three percent of people on LinkedIn post more than once a week, so simply showing up consistently as a real person puts you ahead of nearly everyone your buyer will compare you to.

  • Short-form posts12 / month
  • Working calls60 min · every 2 weeks
  • Shared idea logcaptures the right ideas
  • Humorthat's self aware
À la carte / beyond LinkedIn

The same material, wherever you need it

The retainer is LinkedIn, on purpose — one channel done properly beats five done halfway. But the material we extract is yours, and it can carry the rest of your marketing whenever you want it. Long-form answer articles for your website. A newsletter. Website copy and FAQs. Everything beyond LinkedIn is à la carte: scoped honestly in the audit, priced separately.

  • Website answer articlesà la carte
  • Newsletter editionsà la carte
  • Website copy & FAQsproject-based
  • Higher volumescoped in the audit
From content to conversation

We help you flag the right people engaging with your content and maintain a DM playbook with openers and follow-ups that help you get the conversation started the right way.

The monthly loop

01

Extract

A 60-minute working call every two weeks, plus a shared idea log you drop fragments into so we don't miss gold in between calls. No call, no content.

Ongoing
02

Write

We shape the raw material into 12 LinkedIn posts a month, written in your real voice. You approve everything and post yourself.

Every month
03

Publish

You post it under your own name because corporate accounts don't get you leads. You own everything we make. We flag the right people engaging as they show up.

You · weekly
04

Compound

A monthly review helps us look at the numbers and see what working. We view reach as a health signal, but real conversations as the goal.

Monthly review

What it costs

03 / Pricinggo deeper ↗︎

We have one tier of service. It gives you everything we’ve seen work to build a personal brand and generate more leads. If your needs are greater than this level of service, or you only want one part, we do offer à la carte options.

The retainer

$2,000 / MO Founding rate
  • 12 LinkedIn posts a month, written in your voice with our winning strategy
  • A 30-minute working call every month and regular check ins
  • A monthly review that counts leads, not likes
Month to month · you post it under your own name and own every word

Month one: discovery

Included
  • Four working sessions — no content is produced yet
  • Voice extraction — who you are, what you believe, how you actually talk
  • LinkedIn profile rebuilt as a conversion tool
  • Content pillars mapped — expertise, humor, personal
That month is what everything after it is built from
À la carte

The retainer is built for building a brand on LinkedIn through content. Charcoal is a content agency so we can accommodate other needs with our à la carte offerings — long-form answer articles for your website, newsletters, website copy and FAQs. Ask in the audit and we can scope it out.

Why publish the price? Because it is the first question every buyer asks, and hiding it builds the wrong kind of suspense. We ask our clients to answer the hard questions in public. It would be strange not to do it ourselves.

Want to know more?

04 / Questionsgo deeper ↗︎

Our monthly retainer is $2,000/mo — We don't have tiers or setup fees. It covers the discovery month (four hour long working sessions), 12 LinkedIn posts a month in your real voice, a 30-minute working call every month, and a monthly review to look at content performance. There is no long term contract, our retainer is month to month and you own everything we write. Everything beyond LinkedIn — long-form answer articles, newsletters, website copy, higher volume — is à la carte, priced separately.

Learn more ↗︎

Kind of. Our philosophy is a little different and more involved. We have seen and shown that good organic content with the right DM strategy can produce leads and meetings with the right people. A ghostwriter produces posts. Charcoal extracts what you actually know, who you are, what you find funny and combines that with what we know about using LinkedIn as a growth channel. We create a body of content engineered to make the right buyers find you, trust you, and reach out and we give you the support to stay consistent and see real results.

Learn more ↗︎

Yes and no. It won't sound like what you've been posting, because if that voice were working you probably wouldn't be reading this. Most owners write in a LinkedIn voice: careful, polished, sounding like everyone else in the feed. What I'm after is how you talk when nobody's watching you write. Every two to three weeks we get on a call and I pull out what's been on your mind: the client question that stuck with you, the thing your industry keeps getting wrong, the story you told on the drive home. Between calls, a shared idea log catches those thoughts before they evaporate. I write from that material and nothing else. You read every piece, change whatever you want, and post it yourself.

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No. We deliver finished, ready-to-publish content; you publish it under your own name, and you own all of it. Buyers and AI engines both put more weight on individual people than on company pages. If you won't consistently publish, we're honestly not a fit yet.

Learn more ↗︎

It depends on how consistently you publish, but here's what typically happens. In the first few weeks your reach and profile views start climbing. That tells us the content is reaching the right people, but it's not the goal. The goal is real conversations, and those usually start showing up somewhere between month one and three. By month three, consistent publishing usually turns into a consistent pipeline of them. One thing to know: if your buyers normally take six months to make a decision, this won't shorten that. It fills that time with the right people getting to know you. The long-form content works on a longer clock and keeps producing for months after it publishes. We can't promise leads or an exact date because no one can.

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Yes, and there's real data behind it. LinkedIn is currently one of the most cited sources in AI search for professional questions, and the content that gets cited looks a lot like what we make: original, educational articles and posts from an identifiable person who publishes consistently. Reshared and generic content barely gets referenced. The other big factor is how often your name shows up across the web. One large study found brand mentions predict AI visibility about three times more strongly than backlinks do, which is exactly what content that makes you known produces. Two honest things to know. AI visibility can't be scheduled or promised, because the engines change how they pick sources all the time, so we treat it as a bonus that compounds rather than a number we report on. And most of its value shows up invisibly, as buyers who already read your answer somewhere and arrive already trusting you.

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Your buyers are already looking. Be the answer they find.

Book a free audit of your LinkedIn profile and your website's content. We'll show you exactly what's working, what's missing, and what to fix, whether or not we ever work together.

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