Fixed-scope packages · 4 to 8 published piecesBy appointment · (203) 226-7744

About · Westport, CT

You want your name on the argument. Here’s who writes it.

Lyceum Letters is a ghostwriting studio for B2B founders and subject-matter experts. You give us 60 minutes of recorded conversation. We return 4 to 8 published pieces per fixed-scope package, each one under your byline, each claim traced to a source.

Book a 25-minute scoping call Read the house rules
A writer’s desk with a marked-up interview transcript, a voice recorder and a green editing pen

Colophon · the studio at a glance

Studio
7 N Ridge Rd, Westport, CT 06880
Format
Fixed-scope packages of 4 to 8 published pieces
Input
One 60-minute recorded interview per round
Byline
Yours. Copyright assigns to you on final payment
Visits
By appointment, in person or by video

Why “Lyceum”

The best sentence is usually in minute fourteen.

Most experts explain their work better out loud than on a page. The transcript shows it: the sharpest line sits between two false starts, and nobody writes it down. So Lyceum Letters begins with the recording, never with a blank document.

Talk first. Then write, from what was said.

From the recording the studio runs like a small press: interview, research against primary sources, draft, edit, fact-check. Every piece leaves in your name with its sources in the margin, from our desk on Ridge Road in Westport.

lyceum /laɪˈsiːəm/ · noun

  1. The grove in Athens where Aristotle taught, walking with his students and arguing out loud.
  2. A place where ideas are worked out in conversation, then set down.
  3. Our house method: the interview is the lecture; the article is the lecture notes.
Interview transcript pages pinned to a wall with the quotable passages underlined in green

Style sheet

Six house rules, applied to every draft.

These sit in the statement of work, next to the price. If a rule can’t be met for your subject, the quote says which one and why.

01

Every claim gets a source.

A figure, a date or a named study in a draft carries a primary source: a filing, a paper, or your own dataset. Secondary summaries don’t qualify.

You’ll see it asSource notes in the margin of every draft.

02

One claim per piece.

Each article defends one position you would repeat in public. Two arguments become two pieces, and two line items.

You’ll see it asA one-sentence thesis at the top of draft one.

03

Your verbs stay.

We keep the verbs, analogies and sentence length from your transcript, and cut the filler around them.

You’ll see it asRevision round one: you strike any line you wouldn’t say aloud.

04

Numbers carry their units.

Percentages name their base, dollar figures their year, durations their start point. “Most of the timeline” becomes a count.

You’ll see it as“Eleven of fourteen weeks,” never “a big chunk.”

05

Off-record stays off.

Anything you flag as off-record during the interview is struck from working copies of the transcript and never enters a draft.

You’ll see it asA redacted transcript back within 24 hours.

06

Adjectives must be footnotable.

“Leading,” “innovative” and “robust” are cut unless the draft can show what makes them true.

You’ll see it asA short cut-list returned with each draft.

Who touches your piece

Four passes between your voice and the page.

Each pass has one job and one hand-off, so you always know what’s in the file and what’s coming next.

1

Interview

One interviewer asks the follow-up you’d skip: the example, the number, the objection a skeptical buyer would raise. You talk; the recorder runs.

Hand-offRecording, plus a transcript with the 8–10 quotable passages marked.

2

Research

Every claim in the transcript is checked against a primary source: filings, papers, your own data. Claims that don’t hold are flagged to you, not smoothed over.

Hand-offA source sheet listing what was verified and what was dropped.

3

Draft

The writer drafts in your syntax from the marked passages, keeping about a fifth of the raw transcript. First draft lands by business day 10.

Hand-offDraft with source notes in the margin.

4

Edit & fact-check

Two revision rounds: a voice check, then a fact check. A second editor reads the final against the source sheet before anything ships.

Hand-offCMS-ready HTML, LinkedIn queue and newsletter draft.

Fit check

Who this works for, and who should call someone else.

A good fit

You have the expertise and an hour.

  • You can name the reader: job title, company size, the decision they’re making.
  • You can give 60 minutes per interview and two short review windows.
  • You can point us to two or three sources worth citing.
  • You want files you can publish the same day they arrive.

A poor fit

You need volume, or a position you don’t hold.

  • You want a piece written with no interview. We don’t draft from a brief alone.
  • You need 30 posts a month. Our packages top out at 8 published pieces.
  • You want claims published that we can’t source.
  • You want us to invent an opinion for you to sign. The byline has to be true.

Scoping call · 25 minutes · no charge

Bring the subject. We’ll bring the questions.

Tell us who you want to reach and what you’d defend in public. You’ll leave with a topic map for your first four pieces and a fixed quote in writing.

Call (203) 226-7744 Send the brief

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We reply within one business day.

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