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Playbook series 14

Build Your Own PR Agency

Replace a $10K-a-month PR agency with an in-house press office run by Claude, plus a list of 500 beauty editors.

Somewhere in your inbox is a $10K invoice for a month of PR work you mostly never see. This series takes that retainer apart line by line and rebuilds it in-house, with Claude running the drafting room.

Ten volumes cover the retainer unbundled, the angles editors buy, a Claude PR studio, the press kit, seven pitch emails written in full, how editor desks really work, seeding, a four-to-six-hour weekly operating system, the honest savings, and a list of 500 beauty editors and desks. Run it for your brand, or sell it as a service.

  • 10 volumes
  • Level: Intermediate
  • PR
  • Beauty
$99One payment for all ten volumes.
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The outcome

By the end of the series.

  • Rebuild every line of a PR retainer in-house
  • Pitch with seven proven emails, written in full
  • Get product on editors' desks within 48 hours
  • Run PR in four to six hours a week
  • Work a list of 500 beauty editors and desks
Who it's for

Built for doers.

For beauty and wellness founders paying (or considering) a PR agency, and for marketers who want to offer PR as a service.

  • Beauty founders
  • Wellness brands
  • Marketers
  • Agencies
  • Step-by-step guidanceGo from setup to execution with clear, practical instructions.
  • Templates & promptsReady-to-use resources that save you hours.
  • Real-world examplesLearn from how it is actually done.
  • Progressive learningEach volume builds on the last, so you can go deeper.
The volumes

10 volumes. One system.

  1. 01

    The Retainer, Unbundled

    Break down the $10K PR retainer and rebuild it in-house.

    Read the companion article

    Takes a $10K monthly PR retainer apart line by line (pitching, lists, releases, gifting, reporting) and shows how to rebuild each in-house with Claude, for your own brand or as a service you sell.

    Free
  2. 02

    The Newsroom & The Angle

    Find the angles editors buy and pitch them on the right calendar.

    Read the companion article

    The six angles beauty and wellness editors buy, a story bank that keeps you pitchable all year, a desk map of the outlets that matter, and an editorial calendar that pitches gift guides in July, not November.

    Included
  3. 03

    The Claude PR Studio

    Set up a Claude PR studio that drafts a week of pitches in one session.

    Read the companion article

    Replace the agency's junior coordinator with a Claude drafting room: one Project, four documents and five skills that write in your voice, refuse claims your rules forbid, and produce a week of PR material in one session.

    Included
  4. 04

    The Press Kit & The Assets

    Build the press kit, images and sample logistics editors need on yes.

    Read the companion article

    A press release that reads like news, a digital press kit, product one-pagers, an imagery library shot to editorial spec, and sample logistics that put product on an editor's desk in 48 hours.

    Included
  5. 05

    The Pitch Library

    Get the seven pitch emails that run a PR agency, written in full.

    The seven emails that run a PR agency (cold intro, launch, gift guide, trend comment, press request, exclusive, follow-up), written in full for beauty and wellness, with subject-line and personalisation rules.

    Included
  6. 06

    The Editor's Desk

    Learn how commerce desks, awards and press platforms really work.

    The unwritten rules: how gift guides and commerce content really work, how to work press-request platforms daily, which awards matter, and the etiquette that turns one placement into a relationship.

    Included
  7. 07

    The Seeding & Sampling Engine

    Run product seeding like media spend, targeted and tracked.

    Who gets product and why, the mailer worth building, tracking what seeding actually earns, and the discipline that stops generosity turning into budget leakage.

    Included
  8. 08

    The Machine

    Run your PR office in four to six hours a week, measured.

    A weekly PR operating system on four to six hours, a 25/10/1 cadence for press desks, a coverage log, a monthly report that replaces the agency call, and measurement of coverage in sales and in AI answers.

    Included
  9. 09

    The Money

    See the real savings, the traps to avoid and what's still worth buying.

    The before-and-after of firing the retainer, what's still worth paying for, the industry's expensive traps (wire blasts, pay-to-play awards, monitoring bloat), when to hire help, and where the savings should go.

    Included
  10. 10

    The Press List & The Launch

    Work a list of 500 beauty editors and desks and launch your press office.

    500 beauty editors, journalists and pitch desks across glossies, digital, wellness, trade, gift guides, newsletters and regional press, shipped as a working spreadsheet. Plus verification, send discipline and a 90-day launch.

    Included
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Read Volume 01 before you decide.

The Retainer, Unbundled: break down the $10K PR retainer and rebuild it in-house. Free, straight to your inbox.

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Series 14 · 10 volumes

All ten volumes, one payment.

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