How much does Charcoal cost?
One monthly retainer: $3,000 per month — currently a founding rate, locked for as long as you stay. It covers the discovery month, 12 LinkedIn posts a month in your real voice, a biweekly 60-minute working call, warm-lead flagging, and a monthly review that counts leads, not likes. Everything beyond LinkedIn is à la carte.
Charcoal costs $3,000 per month, on a month-to-month retainer — currently a founding rate, locked in for as long as you stay. One tier, no setup fees, cancel any time.
What the retainer includes
The retainer is LinkedIn content, done properly: 12 short-form posts a month written in your real voice from your own material, a 60-minute working call every two weeks (no call, no content), an always-on idea log that catches ideas before they evaporate, warm leads flagged as they engage — you send the message, personally — and a monthly review that counts real conversations with the right people, not likes.
Month one is discovery
The first month is four working sessions, and no content is produced. That's deliberate: voice extraction, your LinkedIn profile rebuilt as a conversion tool, and your content pillars mapped — expertise, humor, personal. That month is what everything after it is built from.
Everything else is à la carte
The retainer is one channel done well. When you want the same material working elsewhere — long-form answer articles for your website, newsletter editions, website copy and FAQs, or higher volume — those are à la carte engagements, scoped honestly in the audit and priced separately.
Why month to month
Content compounds, and we'd rather you stay because the numbers are improving than because a contract says you must. You own everything we write, from the first post — if you ever leave, the entire body of work stays yours.
How long until this produces leads?
Impressions and profile views move first, as health indicators. Real conversations with the right people build over the first couple of months, and long-form compounds over quarters — month six is measurably better than month one.
Related answerDo you publish it for me?
No — and that's deliberate. We deliver finished, ready-to-publish content; you publish it under your own name and own all of it. Buyers and AI engines both put more weight on individual people than on company pages.