Strategic communications
We advise venture-backed companies and their leaders when reputation matters most: raising, launching, scaling and under scrutiny. Senior counsel from the first call.
Client perspectives
Unscripted conversations with founders and executives on what changed, and what it took.
Why it matters
Investors, customers and the people you want to hire form a view of your company before they ever speak to you. That view is built from what has been published about you.
Price in what they have already read. Capital follows names it can place in context.
Arrive pre-sold, or pre-skeptical, depending on what a trusted outlet has said about you.
Choose companies they have heard of. Credible visibility signals momentum.
And now, AI search repeats the record. ChatGPT, Google AI Overviews and Claude answer questions about your company from published coverage. When the record is thin, so is the answer.
What we do
Integrated counsel across the full arc of a company's reputation, led by senior advisers and never handed down to junior staff.
Earned coverage in the business, technology and trade press your stakeholders read, pitched by people who spent careers on the other side of the pitch.
See the monthly program 02Profiles, bylines, broadcast and the speaking stage: making your CEO the voice reporters call when your category is in the news.
Learn more 03Rounds, launches and acquisitions turned into stories: the exclusive, the embargo, and the second wave that carries coverage past day one.
See the 6-week Funding Sprint 04Shaping what Google, ChatGPT and Perplexity say when an investor, customer or candidate asks about you.
Learn more 05Counsel when the story turns: holding statements, media handling and the stakeholder communications that decide how it ends.
Learn more 06Investor, policy and stakeholder communications for companies preparing to scale, sell or go public.
Learn moreWhere to start
Choose the one closest to yours.
A six-week Funding Announcement Sprint, from narrative to tier-1 coverage.
See the SprintA product, market entry or acquisition that has to land with the right outlets, the first time.
Book a callSustained media, executive visibility and AI-search presence through an ongoing program.
See the programA story is turning against you. Speak with a senior adviser today, in confidence.
Speak with usSelected work · Fintech
$50M
Series C raised by a venture-backed fintech company after nine months of sustained coverage in Bloomberg and Forbes.
See all case studies“Before 9-Figure Media, we had strong fundamentals and zero investor visibility. Within 8 months of working with them, we had Bloomberg coverage, Forbes feature pieces, and were fielding inbound calls from VCs we'd only dreamed about approaching. They didn't just get us press. They repositioned us as the inevitable company in our category.”
CEO, venture-backed fintech company · Client name withheld for confidentiality
How we work
Every engagement follows the same four stages. You see every pitch and every reply, and each placement makes the next one easier to earn.
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We map where your credibility is leaking: messaging, media presence and the competitive narrative.
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We build the story, the proof points and the outlet list with you, before a single pitch goes out.
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We pitch consistently, and you see every pitch and reply in a live tracker.
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Executive profiles, bylines and AI-search visibility make your position harder to challenge every quarter.
Editorial decisions belong to editors, and anyone promising a specific outlet is selling advertising. We commit to an agreed outlet list, every outlet pitched, and complete visibility of the results.
Research
Every quarter we measure what earns tier-1 coverage and what AI repeats about the companies in it. Free for founders, communications leaders and investors.
Questions
No. We guarantee the work: an agreed outlet list, every outlet pitched, and full visibility of every pitch and reply. Anyone guaranteeing a specific outlet is selling paid placement.
Never. Everything we secure is earned editorial coverage.
A senior lead from the first call onward. We don't hand accounts to junior staff.
First pitches go out within the first month. Most clients see tier-1 coverage within 90 days.
As ongoing advisory programs, or as fixed-scope projects such as our six-week Funding Announcement Sprint. We scope every engagement to the moment on the first call.
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About 9-Figure Media
There is often a gap between what a company has built and what the market believes about it. It shows up with the investor who has never heard the name, the customer who chooses a competitor they already trust, and the AI system asked for a recommendation.
For more than 20 years, our team has closed that gap: not with volume, but with positioning disciplined enough that investors lean in and customers arrive already persuaded.
Start a conversation
A 30-minute strategy call with a senior adviser. We'll tell you candidly whether there's a story, where it should run, and what it would take.
