An AI infrastructure company
Executive communications, 2024–2025
Name under NDA — a European cloud provider spun out of a large internet company, launching into the AI training market
Six months embedded with a newly-independent European cloud provider through their PR partner, as the writer between the engineering team and the communications team. The company had a dense body of product work — AI training infrastructure, a flagship European data-centre buildout, a platform story spanning compute, data, and tooling — and needed that work to land in English with the technical press, with enterprise practitioners, and under the bylines of named executives.
The value wasn't the press release — anyone can write a press release. It was sitting between the engineering side and the comms side, translating what the team had actually built into what a CTO needed to hear about it, and doing it at the pace a multi-market launch calendar could absorb. Byline drafts in the morning, engineering review at lunch, press-ready copy by the end of the day.
The engagement covered the launch of the company's European cloud strategy: executive bylines placed in trade publications; press releases coordinated with the announcement cycle; and the deeper technical explainers that sit behind the announcements — the practitioner-level pieces enterprise buyers actually read before they place a GPU order.
Every launch landed complete.
Coordinated byline, release, and explainer on each major product announcement across the engagement, including the flagship data-centre news.
One consistent register across named leaders.
Different engineers, different product areas, one coherent technical voice in public — the thing that's hardest to do through a PR firm, and the thing this engagement existed to deliver.
Re-engaged twice.
Scope extended once mid-project and again at the six-month mark. The honest read on that: when the engineering team trusts the writer, the comms calendar moves faster.