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Public Relations Consultants Who Earn Coverage, Build Reputation, and Make Executives Visible
A public relations consultant for B2B, fintech, PE-backed, and consumer brands. They run media relations, executive visibility, thought leadership, and reputation and crisis work, partner-aligned and senior.
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A public relations consultant for B2B, fintech, PE-backed, and consumer brands
Why teams hire a Chameleon public relations consultant
Earned coverage, not bought attention
A public relations consultant earns media on the merit of the story. We build the narrative, the proof points, and the journalist relationships that turn a company into a quoted authority, rather than paying for placement that audiences discount. Earned coverage compounds trust in a way advertising cannot.
Senior operator from day one
You work directly with a practitioner who has run press programs for two decades, not a senior strategist on the pitch and a junior account executive on the day-to-day. Chameleon Collective is a senior-only collective with no account-management layer between you and the operator.
Media, executive visibility, and reputation as one program
Press relations, thought leadership, executive op-eds and LinkedIn, crisis readiness, and reputation management run as a single coordinated program instead of separate vendors that never align. One operator owns the whole earned-media surface.
What a public relations consultant actually owns
A public relations consultant owns the earned-media surface of a company. That is the narrative that explains why it matters and the press relationships that turn it into coverage. It is also the executive visibility that builds authority and the reputation work that protects all of it when the news cycle turns. When a company has a story worth telling but no senior in-house press function, a PR consulting engagement is the fastest path to a credible presence. It earns a durable place in the media that customers and investors actually read.
The first 30 days: narrative and media audit
The engagement starts with a diagnostic. What is the company actually saying, and is it a story a journalist would care about? Which reporters and outlets cover this category, and what have they written lately? Where is the brand mentioned today, and how does that compare to competitors? The output is a clean message architecture, a target media map, and a 90-day earned-media plan with the announcements and story angles that will earn coverage on merit.
Earned-media programs that compound
The core of the work is the ongoing earned-media program: proactive pitching, trend-driven commentary, data-led stories, contributed articles, and the announcement calendar that gives reporters a reason to write. Done well, each placement makes the next one easier, because a track record of credible coverage is itself a reason for a journalist to take the call.
Executive visibility and thought leadership
Most PR engagements include building the visibility of the founders and leadership team: ghostwritten op-eds and LinkedIn posts, award submissions, speaking and panel placement, podcast bookings, and analyst briefings. A recognised executive voice is one of the most durable assets a company can build. It is work that a senior operator does directly rather than handing to junior staff.
What our public relations consulting engagements cover
Most engagements bundle four to seven of these workstreams, scoped against the company's news flow and goals.
- Media relations and press strategy. Target media mapping, proactive pitching, journalist relationship building, exclusive coordination, and the press calendar that keeps a steady cadence of coverage.
- Narrative and message architecture. The master story, proof points, and audience-specific variants that every press release, pitch, and executive talking point operates against.
- Executive visibility and thought leadership. Ghostwritten op-eds and LinkedIn, contributed articles, award submissions, speaking placement, and podcast bookings that build individual authority.
- Announcement programs. Product launches, funding rounds, partnerships, hires, and milestone news, packaged and timed to earn the coverage they deserve.
- Crisis communications and reputation management. Pre-built statement libraries, message trees for likely scenarios, sentiment monitoring, and senior counsel during active issues.
- Analyst and influencer relations. Briefing programs for industry analysts and the creators and commentators who shape category opinion.
- Measurement. Share of voice, message pull-through, quality of coverage, and the earned-media metrics that show whether the program is moving perception, not just generating clips.
How We Compare
| Feature | Chameleon public relations consultant | PR agency on retainer | Junior in-house PR hire |
|---|---|---|---|
| Scope breadth | Media + executive visibility + reputation + crisis as one program | Press-centric; thought leadership and reputation often extra scope | Whatever the hire was trained for; typically narrower |
| Seniority on day one | 20+ years of earned-media operating experience | Senior strategist on pitch; junior account exec on day-to-day | Typically 3-7 years; building media relationships in real time |
| Media relationships | Personal journalist relationships the operator brings with them | Agency relationships, shared across the client roster | Built from scratch over the first year |
| Executive visibility |
Frequently asked questions
Common questions from founders, CMOs, and communications leaders evaluating a public relations consultant.
A PR agency gives you a senior strategist on the pitch and usually a junior account team on the day-to-day, with relationships shared across the agency's full client roster. A Chameleon public relations consultant is a single senior operator who does the work directly. They bring their own journalist relationships, and own media strategy, executive visibility, and reputation as one program. For most companies that means more senior attention for a comparable or lower monthly cost.
No, and you should be wary of anyone who does. Guaranteed placement is advertising, and audiences discount it. Earned coverage is won on the merit of the story. That is why we invest first in the narrative, the proof points, and the relationships that make a journalist want to write. We commit to the program and the activity; the coverage follows from doing that work well.
Three to twelve months. Engagements built around a specific moment, such as a launch, a funding announcement, or a reputation issue, often run three to six months. Ongoing earned-media programs that build authority over time run on a quarterly review cadence for as long as they keep delivering.
Most engagements run $8K to $20K per month at two to three days a week, quoted as a fixed monthly fee after a scoping conversation. The lower end is a focused single-stream program, such as an executive-visibility push. The upper end covers media relations, thought leadership, and reputation work in parallel. Compare against a PR agency retainer of $10K to $30K monthly plus activation fees, or a full-time senior PR hire at $80K to $140K loaded annually.
Yes. Many engagements include crisis readiness from the start: a statement library, message trees for the scenarios most likely to hit, and sentiment monitoring. When an issue is active, the same senior operator who runs your earned media provides direct counsel. They already hold the relationships and the context to respond fast and credibly.
Yes, and it is one of the highest-return parts of the work. Ghostwritten op-eds and LinkedIn posts, award submissions, speaking and panel placement, podcast bookings, and analyst briefings build an executive into a recognised voice in the category. A senior operator does this work directly, at the altitude executive visibility requires.
Directly. Chameleon Collective is a senior-only collective with no account-management layer. The public relations consultant is the person writing the pitch, building the media plan, ghostwriting the executive op-ed, and picking up the phone when a story breaks.
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