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An editorial system helping hospitality leaders get found, chosen and booked.

For independent hotels, restaurants and cultural venues in the AI era. A clear, consistent editorial approach across your website, your press and your AI answers.

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Your words concierge for the AI era
One editorial system.
Four ways we build it.
—01 Build — Editorial & AI Audit
—02 Grow — Editorial Intensive
—03 Scale — Editorial Engine
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St Michaels Resort
Firmenich
Hilton
81 Residences
1-Group
Monti
Bee’s Knees Singapore

To help independent hospitality brands cut through the noise and connect with intent, we built the Editorial System. Three parts, working together, so your brand is not just seen but chosen.

01 — Build
We audit it
A full picture of how AI currently describes you — and a clear roadmap for what to fix first.
—AI platform monitoring
—Citation audit and 30/60/90-day roadmap
02 — Grow
We build it
Brand positioning and AI visibility in one four-week sprint. One story, everywhere it needs to live.
—Brand positioning and tone of voice
—GEO implementation and copy rewritten
03 — Scale
We keep it alive
A monthly retainer that keeps producing editorial, pitching press, and checking AI accuracy.
—Monthly editorial output and PR
—Monthly AI accuracy check
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01 — Build
The Editorial & AI Audit
Entry point. Find out where you actually stand.
Most independent properties have never checked what AI is actually saying about them, or whether it’s even true. Build is a full audit of how you currently show up across the platforms guests now ask first, with a clear, written roadmap for what to fix and in what order, so you know exactly where you stand before deciding what to do about it.
Investment: Fixed at £1,500
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—AI platform monitoring across ChatGPT, Perplexity, Google AI
—Guest question mapping
—Citation source audit
—30/60/90-day roadmap
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02 — Grow
The Editorial Intensive
Four weeks. Your brand positioning and your AI visibility, built together.
Positioning and visibility are usually treated as two separate projects, worked on months apart by different people. Grow does both at once, over a fixed four-week sprint: your story defined and written down properly for the first time, and the technical groundwork laid so AI can actually find and repeat it correctly. You come out the other side with one story, everywhere it needs to live.
This is for you if
→You want your property described accurately, not just found
→You need one clear story that explains what makes you genuinely different, not another “boutique luxury” listing
→You want a partner who finds what’s real about a place, not one who writes generic copy on a template
→You want your website, press and AI answers to actually sound like the same property
Investment: From £4,500 · A deposit secures your four-week slot
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—Brand positioning and tone of voice
—Content pillars and story mapping
—GEO implementation across key pages
—Guest-journey and website copy rewritten
—Delivered in four weeks, start to finish
After the Intensive, you’ll be able to
—Point to one clear story, mapped against different channels
—Stop wondering what AI is actually saying about you
—Hand new copy straight to your team, ready to use
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03 — Scale
The Editorial Engine
Ongoing. Your story kept current, and kept in front of press and AI.
A story that’s right once doesn’t stay right on its own. AI models retrain, press cycles move on, and guest reviews keep adding new, unmanaged fragments to how you’re described. Scale is a monthly retainer that keeps producing original editorial, keeps pitching press, and checks AI accuracy every month, so the work from Grow keeps compounding instead of quietly going stale.
Investment: From £2,500 / month
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—Monthly editorial output
—Ongoing PR and press placement
—Monthly AI accuracy check
—Minimum term recommended, cancel after that
The Festive Booking Sprint
A seven-day sprint for properties who want Christmas and New Year to feel unmissable, not generic. Fixed at £1,750, four deliverables, roughly twenty minutes of your time.

Bookings are landing later this year, and guests are more cautious before they commit.

Most properties reuse last year's festive copy with the date changed. It reads like everyone else's, gives AI nothing distinct to repeat, and gives a hesitant guest no reason to choose you.

The sprint fixes that in seven days, for about twenty minutes of your time.

The Festive Booking Sprint
Fixed at £1,750 · Seven days · Twenty minutes of your time
—Atmosphere audit & definition
—Website & booking copy
—Social & email content
—Press outreach
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( Why editorial matters now )

Editorial is your growth engine, not a brand exercise.

Before a guest searches for you, they've already dreamed of you. Then a machine reads your story first, and decides how much of it survives the journey.

Editorial is three things at once: one voice, not a dozen individual ones. A persuasive case for why this property, not the one down the road. And a structure — a way of building that case so it holds together, the same way, everywhere it's told.

Most properties have none of the three. The website says one thing. The last press piece says another. AI stitches together whatever it can find, and nobody checked whether any of it agrees.

Get all three right, and AI can describe you accurately, guests arrive already persuaded, and you stop relying on discounts to win the booking a clear story should have already won.

“Hannah has a great talent at looking at the very start of the brand and crafting a narrative that helps unite people.”
Clare Woodford
Marketing Director, Hilton Worldwide
“An excellent understanding of our brand, and strong creative underpinned by sound strategy.”
Joseph Ong
President, 1-Group, Asia
Hannah Middleton, founder of Abovewater

Twenty years of strategic communications.

I help independent hotels become the obvious choice in an AI-first world.

If you feel your property is invisible to the AI tools guests now ask first, or that your story sounds like every other “boutique luxury” listing, it's not just you.

Search engines, AI platforms and the press are now where a guest first meets your property, long before your own website. Most independent hotels have never checked what those sources say.

I've spent over 20 years in strategic communications, across luxury hospitality and major independent brands including Hilton, The Westbury London, St Michaels Falmouth, Botanic Gardens Singapore, ITV and Diageo.

Whether you want a quick audit to see where you stand, or an ongoing partnership to keep your story current, I'd love to talk.

Hannah x

Tell us a little about the property and what you're working on. We'll reply within two business days to arrange a complimentary audit and a 30-minute conversation.

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