Ghostwrite founder and executive LinkedIn posts, using AI to draft faster while keeping their real voice.
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Founders and executives know a consistent LinkedIn presence drives deal flow and hiring, but few have the time or writing discipline to do it themselves — and AI drafting genuinely cuts the time cost of doing this well.
$500-3,000/month per client for 8-12 posts; premium executive ghostwriters charge $3,000-8,000+/month. A solo operator with 4-8 clients realistically nets $6,000-15,000/month.
A strong writer who's good at extracting someone else's real opinions and stories in an interview, not just prompting a generic AI voice.
Anyone planning to skip the interview step and write purely from AI prompts — readers increasingly spot and discount that.
Cheap AI ghostwriting tools now let busy executives draft passable posts themselves in minutes, which compresses the low end of this market — you need a real strategy-plus-voice offer, not just typing speed.
5 steps to your first paying customer
Get real stories, opinions and voice notes from the client rather than working off generic prompts — this is the actual differentiator versus AI-only output.
Done when You hold a recorded interview transcript with at least three real stories or opinions in the client's own words, not generic prompts.
Watch out: A rushed intake interview shows up immediately in generic-sounding first drafts.
Feed transcripts and past posts into your AI drafting process so output reflects the client's actual voice and stories.
Done when Your first AI-assisted draft is built entirely from the interview transcript and past posts, with no generic filler paragraphs.
The rest of the playbook: what to charge, what you need in place before you take money, where the first customers come from, and what each step costs.
Free forever · no card · 30 secondsAnyone can use the same AI tools; your moat is the relationship and the quality of your interview/editing process, which a copycat has to rebuild from zero with each new client.
Build a reputation in one specific founder/exec community for referrals
Package strategy consulting alongside writing so you're not easily replaced by a cheaper writer
A small ghostwriting practice doesn't typically sell as an asset — the exit is usually folding clients into a broader personal-branding or PR agency, or hiring writers under you to scale.
Same idea, different rules. One playbook, with the facts that actually differ overlaid per market.
No local licence needed for remote freelance work invoicing overseas clients.
Register as a sole trader with HMRC once past the £1,000 trading allowance.
Strong market for serving international clients remotely; invoice with FIRC documentation for tax purposes.
Highest-paying clients tend to be here, especially tech and finance founders.
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