Guests and partners

Three ways in, all narrow

The letter carries no display advertising and no paid placements. What it does carry is other people's operating experience.

01 · Interview

Publish what you rebuilt

A 60-minute conversation, edited into an article under your name. Best when you have rebuilt something and can describe how: an operating model, a hiring function set up from scratch, an internal mobility programme, an AI pilot that did or did not pay off. Also welcome: you ran two models and can say which one you would choose again.

  1. 0160-minute call, recorded
  2. 02Draft back within ten days, yours to correct
  3. 03You approve every figure before it publishes
Propose a conversation

02 · Data

Bring a dataset

If you hold benchmark data on cost, capacity, salaries or location economics and are willing to have it examined properly, there is a letter in it. Attribution in full, methodology published, conclusions mine.

  1. 01Raw or aggregated, both work
  2. 02Method and n published with the piece
  3. 03No review rights over the analysis
Send the details

03 · Write it yourself

Submit a draft, get an editorial read

If you would rather write than be interviewed, send the piece. Every submission goes through the same editorial check as my own letters. Not a taste test, a content standard. Most drafts come back once with questions before they run.

What the editorial check asks

01Did you run this, or did you read about it?

02If there is a number in it, can it be sourced?

03Does a reader get something to reuse on Monday?

04Would it read the same without your employer's name?

051,200–2,000 words, no jargon, no vendor pitch.