Side door
01 The Campaign

Walk in ready.

A private counterpart for senior leaders. This is the first campaign taking Pulse to market. Target buyer: VP+ operators, founders, COOs, and Chiefs of Staff at complex orgs. Phase 1 is message and audience validation, not scale. Thirty-day window, disciplined spend, single success metric.

Audience VP+ leaders Channel LinkedIn primary Goal 8-12 leaders using Pulse on a real moment
02 The Hero

The lead execution.

One image, one line, one CTA. This is the first thing the market sees.

Hey Borton Pulse - hero widescreen campaign ad
Hero · widescreen 01-ads / hero-widescreen
Persona Founder / CEO Format Widescreen Placement LinkedIn sponsored content

Supporting executions.

Three angles · three personas

Each one targets a specific buyer and a specific moment. Pair every execution with the persona it speaks to so the targeting logic is visible at a glance.

Good people still miss each other - campaign ad
Good people · 1:1
COO / Chief of Staff
The hardest ten minutes of your week - campaign ad
Hardest ten · 1:1
VP+ Functional Leader
03 The Product

The product behind the ads.

Proof the product ships. The four surfaces a beta leader sees in week one.

Pulse · Context Weave

The signals, woven.

Four streams converge into a single read on the room. The diagram is the logo of the product.
Pulse · Room Brief

Walk in ready.

A quiet pre-read for the next room. Surfaces what's worth saying and what's been left unsaid.
Next · 1:1 with Marcus
Thu · 2:00 pm · 30 min
  • Lead with the board timeline Marcus raised it in 2 of the last 3 meetings - he's waiting for you to name it.
  • Acknowledge Jenny's pricing pushback Third pass in three weeks. Not a pricing problem - a scope confidence problem.
  • Close on one decision, not three Marcus's energy debt is high. One clear ask lands; three will scatter.
Pressure point
Board timing concern - unsaid in the last two 1:1s. Surface it first; don't let it sit.
Energy debt
72%
Walk in ready
Pulse · Map

Org friction - patterns over time.

The concerns that keep returning. Named, tracked, and shown before they compound.
Pricing 3× pushback
Cross-functional handoffs
Priority ambiguity
Change fatigue
Pulse · Trust Architecture

Private by design. Yours by default.

Every layer of the system earns the trust of the room before it's allowed inside.
Private by design
Your counterpart runs in an isolated workspace. No shared context, no cross-tenant leakage.
Encrypted memory
Every conversation wraps end-to-end at rest and in motion. Keys rotate weekly.
Never trained on your data
Borton's models learn from nothing you say. What you share with Pulse stays with Pulse.
Your signal stays yours
Export any brief, delete any thread, revoke any connection. One click, no ticket.
04 The Landing

Where the click goes.

The landing scene above the fold. The invocation, the promise, the offer, and a live product moment in a single screen.

heyborton.com
Hey Borton / Pulse

Context before the conversation.
Clarity in the room.

A private counterpart that listens across your week and hands you the read on the next room before you walk into it.
Private by design Encrypted memory Never trained on your data
Pulse · Room Brief

Next · 1:1 with Jenny

Fri · 10:30 am · 45 min
  • Open with the pricing reframeThird pass in three weeks - name it before she does.
  • Surface the board-timing concernMarcus's worry, Jenny's lever.
  • End with one decision, not three
Pressure point
Pricing 3× pushback - not a pricing problem, a scope confidence problem.
Primary CTA: Walk in ready → beta application. Six fields. No demo required.
05 The Offer

Apply. Onboard. Use it on a real moment.

The conversion event is not a form fill. It is a VP+ leader who applies to the private beta, picks a real upcoming conversation, and uses Pulse to prepare for it. That is the unit of market signal this campaign is built to produce.

Step 1 · Apply

Six-field application.

Name, work email, company, role, first moment, what is coming up in 14 days.

Step 2 · Onboard

Founder-signed email.

Reply within 24 hours. A 20-minute first-prep session to set up the first real moment.

Step 3 · Use

Real room, real prep.

The leader walks into a real conversation with Pulse. That is the win.

06 The Plan

Thirty days. One signal. Clear kill criteria.

This is a validation test, not a scale plan. LinkedIn is the only cold channel. Meta is a retargeting probe. X runs founder-led and organic. Every dollar is spent to answer one question: do the right leaders use this on a real moment?

Audience
Founder / CEO, COO / Chief of Staff, VP+ Functional
Channels
LinkedIn cold, LinkedIn retargeting, Meta retargeting ($40/wk), X founder-led
Budget
$9–14K over 30 days
Target
8–12 leaders using Pulse on a real moment
Kill
  • Fewer than 5 qualified applications by day 30
  • CPL > $400
  • Landing page conversion < 1.5%
Hold
  • 5–12 applications, 1–2 using product
  • CPL $150–400
  • Landing page conversion 1.5–4%
Scale
  • 13+ applications, 3+ using product
  • CPL < $150
  • Landing page conversion > 4%
07 Launch Kit

Everything packed for launch.

The ad smoke test kit bundles the creative, palette, type, copy, and production briefs into a single versioned download. It's the campaign above - ready to run.

Download the kit v1.0.0 · 27MB Private·versioned·production-ready

What's inside

9 sections · v1.0.0
  1. 01
    Ads
    4 hero concepts + size variants + HTML templates.
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  2. 02
    Logos
    SVG + PNG at every size.
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  3. 03
    Fonts
    Inter + IBM Plex Mono + install script.
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  4. 04
    Palette
    JSON, CSS, TXT + preview sheet.
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  5. 05
    Typography
    Spec + live specimen.
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  6. 06
    Copy
    Headlines, body, CTAs, captions, subjects.
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  7. 07
    Brand system PDF
    Placeholder - export from /studio.
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  8. 08
    Guardrails
    Voice, do-not-do, overlay rules.
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  9. 09
    Production
    Targeting, measurement, motion, landing spec.
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08 Appendix · Brand System

The system under the campaign.

Palette, typography, voice, and photography direction. Reference layer. Every ad, landing scene, and product surface composes from here.

Brand Principle

Voice, system, posture.

Voice
Hey Borton - the invocation, the relationship, the way you summon your counterpart.
System
Pulse - the signal layer. Every product surface, chart, and weave lives here.
Posture
Calm, intelligent, built for high-stakes work. Signal over noise. Never a co-pilot. Always a counterpart.
Palette

Warm credibility with one confident signal.

Coral
#E26B57
--coral
The single accent. CTAs, the Pulse mark, pressure flags, chart highlights. Never body.
Peach
#F2C8B1
--peach
Secondary warmth. Tinted surfaces, soft dividers, photo underlay, gentle chart fills.
Shell
#FAF7F4
--shell
The canvas. Every surface starts here. Never pure white - Borton is warm by default.
Charcoal
#1F1F28
--charcoal
All body text, primary marks, campaign dark mode. Carries the weight so coral doesn't have to.
Slate
#8A8A90
--slate
Metadata, timestamps, secondary lines on charts. The quiet layer beneath charcoal.
Ratio
~68% shell · 18% charcoal · 8% peach · 4% coral · 2% slate. Coral earns every appearance.
Typography

Inter, across the system. Four weights doing four jobs.

Display
Inter · 600 · 60–72 / 1.04 / −0.028em
Homepage hero, campaign posters, the invocation line. Tight tracking. Never two displays on one surface.
Context before
the conversation.
Heading
Inter · 600 · 32–40 / 1.1 / −0.02em
Section heads in product and on web. Paired with a small coral eyebrow above for wayfinding.
Next: 1:1 with Marcus - Thursday 2:00 pm.
Body
Inter · 400 · 16–17 / 1.55–1.6
Default reading size. Charcoal at 82% opacity for long-form, full charcoal for short executive copy.
Jenny pushed back on pricing in the last three reviews. The board presentation lands Tuesday. Marcus hasn't said it, but the timing is the thing he's actually worried about - bring it up first.
Label
Inter · 600 · 10.5–12 / 0.14em / UPPER
Eyebrows, metadata, chart legends, signal chips. Always tracked, always in slate or coral.
Signal · Pressure point · Board timing concern
Photography Direction

Contemplative. Candid. Never posed.

People mid-thought. Warm natural light. Negative space where copy will land. Borton's subjects are always in the middle of a real decision - not performing one.

Signal over photo
The Pulse overlay is the brand. Photography carries warmth; coral rings and signal chips carry the system.
Candid, not posed
Two people mid-sentence. One listening, one thinking. Shadow-rich interiors, no conference rooms.
Contemplative
Subject in the middle of a decision - not performing one. Eyes on the page, not on the lens.
Product in context
Pulse shown in the hand, not on a marketing screen. The brief is the hero; the phone is the bezel.
Negative space
At least 40% of frame open for overlay copy. Warm directional light, never studio flash.
Horizons, not headshots
Backs to the lens, faces to the view. Borton's subjects are always looking at what's next.
Light
Warm, directional, natural. Morning window or late-afternoon interior. Never studio flash, never ring-lit.
Subject
Mid-career operators. Not actors. Not laughing. Not on a video call. Caught between thoughts.
Do not
No conference rooms. No handshakes. No whiteboards. No laptops facing camera. No stock "team" shots.