Hugo van de Haar

Working together · Fractional Narrative Lead

Keeping the story in step as the market moves.

For founders whose story has to stay credible to investors, primes and agencies as the market moves.

What the month contains.

Procurement windows, defence budgets and funding rounds move through the year. This keeps your positioning in step, without the seat of a full marketing hire.

Every monththe briefing
A market briefing on your segment: what moved, and what it means for your story. Contracts awarded, budgets shifted, competitors repositioned, and which of those changes what you should be saying.
Every monthone piece
One substantive analysis under your name, researched and drafted with you. Your argument and your byline, with the research work done.
Before a momentupkeep
Positioning upkeep ahead of raises, trade shows and procurement windows, so the story that goes into the room is the current one.
In betweenon call
The messaging decisions that come up between all of that. A reply within one working day.

It works best after a sprint, when there is a positioning to keep in step. Without one, the first month goes on building it and there is less room for the rest.

A year, with the moments the market moves clustered unevenly above the line, and the standing arrangement running underneath all of them
procurement windows, trade shows and funding rounds the arrangement, running through all of it
A year across the page. Above the line, the moments the market moves: they cluster, then go quiet, then cluster again somewhere else. Underneath runs the standing arrangement, which is there for all of it rather than for one of them. The spacing is a rhythm, not a calendar.

The market moves whether or not your story does.

Contracts get awarded, budgets shift, competitors reposition. A story that worked last quarter goes stale without anyone saying so.

Fractional Narrative Lead

For founders whose story has to stay credible to investors, primes and agencies as the market moves

Monthly, in advance, and either side can end it with 30 days notice. No minimum term.

Standing role
€3,000 / momonthly · 30 days notice · excl. VAT
Book a scoping call

Nothing is locked in. If a month does not earn its keep, end it.

What is in, and what is not.

In

The monthly briefing, one analysis a month under your name, positioning upkeep before the moments that matter, and the messaging questions in between.

Not in

Running your marketing. No campaigns, no channels, no team to manage. This is the story, not the machine around it.

Press relations. No pitching, no media list, no coverage promised.

A seat. It is a standing arrangement, not a part-time employee, and it is priced as one.

From you

A call a month, and the things you would tell a colleague anyway: what closed, what stalled, what the next raise needs to say. Anything not already public stays confidential, indefinitely.

The three weeks that usually come before this, and the shorter read: the rest of the work.

A standing arrangement, ended with a month's notice.

It works best once there is a positioning to keep in step. If there is not one yet, say so on the call and we will start at the right place.