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THE MAP

Most marketing talks to everyone. In trust-critical markets, that means influencing almost no one.

In fintech and enterprise B2B SaaS, the decision to buy, invest, partner with or regulate your business rarely sits with a single person.

It sits with a constellation of stakeholders, each with different priorities, different information needs and a different threshold for trust.

The enterprise buyer needs a business case. The procurement team needs evidence of security and compliance. The legal team needs reassurance on risk. The board needs confidence in the vendor's longevity. The regulator needs to believe you understand the rules and take them seriously. The media needs a story worth telling.

One message, however well-crafted, cannot do all of that at once.

 

 

The Map shows you who's in the room, what each of them needs to hear, and the most credible way to reach them.

Not by producing more content and hoping it reaches the right people. By building a precise, evidence-based picture of your stakeholder landscape and developing communications that are genuinely tailored to each audience, without contradicting your core narrative.

The businesses that do this well don't just communicate more effectively. They move faster. They close deals with less friction. They build the kind of regulatory and investor relationships that become a competitive advantage in their own right.

 

THE THREE STAGES OF THE RAISE

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MAP

Understand the full stakeholder universe

We build a complete picture of every audience that influences your commercial outcomes. Customers and prospects. Investors and boards. Regulators and policy makers. Industry analysts and sector media. Partners and ecosystem players. Employees and future hires. For each group, we define what they currently think about you (if they think about you at all), what they need to take the action you want and what barriers are in the way. Rigorous and evidence-based . 

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MATCH

Messaging that serves every audience from one core story

We develop the messaging architecture that speaks precisely to each stakeholder group without your brand becoming inconsistent or incoherent. Each audience gets a version of your story tailored to their priorities and trust thresholds, all anchored to the same core narrative. We identify the channels, formats and moments that give each message the best chance of landing and build the communications strategy to deliver it with the right frequency and the right credibility signals.

 

 

 

3

MOVE

Reach the right people and measure what changes

We execute the strategy creating and distributing the content, thought leadership, media, event presence and direct communications that reach your target stakeholders. And we track what's changing. In regulated markets, stakeholder relationships build slowly but compound powerfully. We monitor the signals that tell you whether perceptions are shifting: media sentiment, inbound quality, deal velocity, investor engagement and refine the approach over time.

 

 

 

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WHO IS THIS FOR?

The Map is for businesses where the path to growth runs through multiple audiences simultaneously:

 

  • Regulated sector businesses where regulator and policy audiences are as commercially significant as customers
  • Scale-ups entering enterprise sales where procurement, legal, compliance and board-level buy-in are all required before a deal closes
  • Businesses seeking investment where the investor audience is distinct from the customer audience and requires different communications
  • Companies navigating a rebrand, pivot or acquisition where multiple stakeholder groups need to be managed carefully and simultaneously
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WHAT YOU GET

  • A complete stakeholder map: every audience profiled by priority, influence and trust gap
  • A messaging architecture that serves every audience from a single coherent narrative
  • Channel and content strategy tailored to each stakeholder group
  • Targeted content, media, thought leadership and direct communications for each priority audience
  • A measurement framework that tracks perception change, not just reach
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Ready to reach the people who actually decide?

Get in touch and let’s map your stakeholder universe: hello@rowntreesquared.com