The press kit version. ARR. Headcount. Logo again.
Hey. This is the writing.
Nitish Chauhan
I write for people who already get the clap for money and title. The interesting part is the rest: how they actually think, and how that should sound when it hits a page.
Why a profile even exists
The product already has a website. This is about them.
Everyone already knows the revenue number. What they actually want, if you sit with them long enough, is for someone to notice the judgment. The taste. The call they made when the slide was still messy.
A specific story. Not "we obsess over customers."
How they actually operate. The feature they killed. The 80% they shipped.
What I actually do
I read the product. I listen. Then I write like them, not like a blog.
If I cannot see what the customer sees on the screen, I do not trust the sentence yet. That is the whole job, basically.
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Check the facts before the take.
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Sound like them on a Tuesday, not on LinkedIn.
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Pick three things to be known for. Not twelve.
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The screen and the buyer, in the same line.
Example: reading a product
I sat with Postey.ai and refused the homepage story.
Nobody paid me. I just wanted to know what the thing actually does. The long notes stayed private. What I would publish is the short version of how I think about it.
More of that kind of thinking, in the Library-
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Look at the live product first. Ignore TAM slides.
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Notice what the homepage promises vs what you can actually click.
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What is generic AI, what is glue, what is actually theirs.
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Where the user is helped, and where the product goes quiet.
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If they claim traction, treat it as a claim. Check pricing and metering.
The product, as a person uses it
If the screen is lying, I will not write a pretty lie on top.
Most "thought leadership" is vision. I start from friction. What did the user actually have to click. Where did attention split.
Sounding like them
They already argued this with themselves at 11pm. Start there.
I do not need a warm-up paragraph they would never say. Keep their metaphors. Name the thing. Cut the noise that will not make sense tomorrow, when the working memory has rebooted.
How the writing actually gets made
The useful hour feels like talking to a friend, not filling a form.
No recorder theater. We go forty minutes. They leave with language they did not have, and it still sounds like them.
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Same intensity. I am not shrinking because of the title.
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I will say the framing is wrong. It is not a power move.
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I keep their words. I do not swap them for consulting English.
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I pull the live insight out of the ramble. I do not throw the whole thought away.
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They stay the author. I disappear into the sentence.
If you want to poke around
Start here, then wander.
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LabsFinished essays and things you can click. I try to write like I am talking to a peer, not teaching a class.
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LibraryThe messy rooms. Notes, questions, trails. This is process, not the polished stack.
Jobs, for the record
Technical content and strategy Smartlead.ai and OneClick IT
That is it
You can send this URL. That is the point of the page.
If the post could have been written by anyone in the industry, I missed. If someone who knows them says "yeah, that is how they talk," we are done.
Nitish Chauhan. I research, I listen, I write the sentence they would actually say.
Structured knowledge and clear thinking.