MinuteZero

Content writing

Articles your audience will actually finish reading.

Most content shops will publish six pieces a week and tell you that’s the work. We publish fewer pieces that land harder — gated by a voice doc built from your founder’s actual writing, edited in three passes by a human, and indistinguishable from your best in-house writer’s output. The job isn’t to fill a calendar. It’s to write something worth reading.

Driven by our SEO research, or by your prompt. Your call.

Two ways in

You can come with the topic. Or we can find it for you.

Most clients use both, eventually. Pick the one that fits where you are right now.

Path A

Driven by our SEO research

We did the research. We found the gap. We’ll write the cluster. This is the path most clients arrive at after they see the reconciliation list and want to execute on it without spinning up a separate writing team. The map informs the brief; the brief informs the draft; the draft passes through the voice doc; the piece ships.

Path B

Driven by your prompt

You already know what you want written. Maybe it’s a launch piece. Maybe it’s a founder essay you can’t get to. Maybe your VP of marketing keeps asking for “a really good explainer on X.” Send us the prompt, send us the voice references, and we’ll write the thing. Same quality bar. Same voice gate. No SEO scaffolding required.

What “quality” actually means

Three passes. One voice doc. Per-client persona.

Generic AI content is the floor of the industry. Beating it is mostly about process. Here’s ours, honestly described.

PASS 01

Substance

Does the piece have a real point of view? Are the claims defensible? Are the examples specific instead of vague? This is where most AI drafts fall apart and we rewrite, not edit.

PASS 02

Voice

Every client has a voice doc built from their founder’s actual writing — talks, blog posts, podcasts. The draft is rewritten against it sentence by sentence. Cadence, vocabulary, the specific things this brand does and doesn’t say.

PASS 03

Engagement

Does the lede earn the next paragraph? Does every section open with a sentence that pulls the reader forward? Does the piece end somewhere — or just stop? This is the final read-aloud pass.

Sample chapter excerpt

A paragraph or two of what comes out the other side.

Generic, not client-specific. The point is to show the texture — what shipping a piece through the three-pass pipeline produces, versus the default AI output that everyone has read too much of.

From a recent founder-voice essay

On why we stopped publishing a weekly newsletter

The honest version is that nobody was reading it. The flattering version is that we were “refining our channel mix.” The honest version is more useful, so let’s start there.

For three years we published a weekly newsletter because every B2B marketing playbook said we should. The open rate looked respectable, the click rate looked terrible, and the unsubscribe rate looked like a Manhattan rent ladder — one extra step every quarter. We told ourselves the metric to optimize was list growth, which is the metric you optimize when you don’t want to admit the thing isn’t working.

The week we stopped, three things happened. Our biggest client’s VP of marketing emailed us to ask where it had gone, which was nice. Two reporters DM’d to ask if we were okay, which was clarifying. And we wrote one long piece that took the full week instead of five short pieces that each took an hour, which was the part that mattered. The long piece got picked up by the trade publication that had been ignoring our newsletter for thirty-six months.

The lesson, if there is one, is that “more” is rarely the answer when you’re behind. The answer is almost always “less, but the thing that actually works.”

What lands in your CMS

Finished articles, ready to publish.

We deliver in the format your CMS wants — clean HTML, Markdown, a Google Doc, or a direct push if you’re on a platform that supports it. Internal links cross-wired, meta and schema written, alt text and OG image briefed.

PER PIECE

The article itself

Full draft, voice-gated, edited, ready to publish. Internal links to the cluster wired correctly. References cited where claims need backing.

PER PIECE

Metadata

Title, meta description, slug suggestion, OG image brief, schema type recommendation. Not afterthoughts — part of the deliverable.

PER ENGAGEMENT

The voice doc

Built once, used forever. Cadence rules, vocabulary preferences, what this brand says and doesn’t say. Yours to keep if we ever part ways.

Pricing

Quoted per engagement.

Volume and depth both matter, so a fixed price card would lie. We quote on the call after we understand whether you want a steady drumbeat of short pieces or a quarterly series of long ones — and whether you’re bringing the SEO research or having us do that, too.

Standalone

Content writing only

You bring the briefs (or use your existing SEO research). We write. Voice-doc gated, three-pass edit, ready to ship.

  • Voice doc built from your founder’s actual writing
  • Three-pass pipeline: substance, voice, engagement
  • Full metadata + internal-link wiring per piece
  • Either Path A (your SEO research) or Path B (your prompt)
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Bundled

SEO research + content writing

We build the map, do the audit, write the reconciliation, then execute on the writing. One shared intelligence layer. Bundle discount.

  • Full SEO research engagement (map, audit, reconciliation)
  • Content writing on the reconciliation list
  • One voice doc, used across all assets
  • Discount versus buying both separately
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Honest answers

The questions people ask before signing.

Is the writing AI or human?

Both, on purpose. Drafts are AI-assisted. Editing is human. The voice doc is the writer — the AI is the apprentice. If you want pure-human writing with no AI in the loop, tell us; it’s a different price point and we’ll be honest about it.

What you won’t get is generic AI output. The three-pass pipeline exists precisely so the finished piece doesn’t read like everything else on the internet right now.

How do you build the voice doc?

Talks, podcasts, blog posts, founder essays, internal Slack threads if you’ll share them. We read them and extract: cadence patterns, vocabulary preferences, the specific things this brand says (and doesn’t). The doc is one of the deliverables — yours to keep, yours to evolve, yours to give to a different writer if you ever leave us.

Can you write technical pieces?

Yes — including developer-facing pieces, fintech, healthcare, regulated industries. The voice doc handles tone constraints (no medical advice, FINRA-safe language, the specific things your legal team doesn’t want said). Where the topic requires source-of-truth review, we’ll set up a fast lane with your subject expert and build that into the timeline.

How many pieces per month?

Whatever the topic actually demands. Some clients want one long piece a month; some want six short ones. We’ll have an opinion based on what your audience reads, but the volume is yours to set. We’d rather ship one piece that lands than five that don’t.

What about revisions?

Two rounds included on every piece. In practice, most pieces ship after one round because the voice doc front-loads the alignment. If we’re on round three on multiple pieces, something is wrong with the voice doc and we’ll rebuild it.

Can I see a sample?

The chapter excerpt above is a real example, scrubbed. We’ll show more on the walkthrough call — live, because most published client work isn’t labelled as ours and we don’t want to break the illusion.

Show us the writing you wish was on your site.

Whether that’s a competitor doing it well, an old founder essay you loved, or just a vibe — bring it to the call. We’ll show you how the voice doc would capture it.

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