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Content that sells,
not content that fills.

Content marketing built on the questions your buyers actually ask, written answer-first so Google ranks it and ChatGPT can quote it. Every piece ships with its brief, target query and internal-link plan, so you know why it exists.

Plan priced in 48 hours · First piece inside 14 days

  • Hello Peter
  • Gruber Logistics
  • Delhivery
  • Thomson Reuters
  • Qatar Airways
  • Grundfos
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  • BERD
  • Yale University
  • Kuwait Police
  • Dubai Police
  • Panasonic
  • Infosys
  • Kia
  • Hitachi
  • Orange Business Services
In one answer

PixelCrayons' content marketing service builds topical authority: a mapped set of the questions your buyers ask, answered by pages Google can rank and AI engines can quote. Every piece ships with its brief, target query and internal-link plan, and is reported against traffic and pipeline rather than word counts. The published SaaS case, written up in full, shows +127% organic traffic growth in five months; that's the number we ask to be judged on. Direct for brands, white-label for agencies.

The operating record

Judge the record,
not the adjectives.

Outcomes tied to real engagements, not averages.

21 yrs
Years in continuous delivery
100+
Agency partnerships
2,500+
Projects delivered
30+
Countries served
2+ yrs
Average partner retention
14 days
NDA to first deliverable
340%
Revenue growth · 7 months
Client outcome: eCommerce
+127%
Organic traffic · 5 months
Client outcome: SaaS
85%
Faster delivery · zero churn
Client outcome: via agency partner
Clutch — 4.8 / 5 ratingGoodFirms — 4.7 / 5 rating
Google Partner
Meta Business Partner
Shopify Partner
Where the work happens
ShopifyWooCommerceMagentoWordPressWebflowKlaviyoGoogle AdsMeta AdsGA4Next.js
  • +127% organic lift on the published SaaS case
  • Every piece ships with brief + internal-link plan
  • Topical map agreed before the first word
  • Answer-first structure both engines can quote
  • Plans priced in 48 hours
  • First piece inside 14 days
Proof

The map, worked
until it paid.

Two SaaS professionals mapping content and search architecture in a modern office
SaaS · UK
Direct engagement

B2B SaaS: a topical map from a standing start.

The site had thin content and no coherent structure, so the engagement started with the map, not the calendar. Question clusters sequenced by commercial value, answer-first pieces briefed against it, internal links wired on publish day. Organic traffic up 127% in five months, with AI Overview citations on money queries.

+127%
Organic
5 mo
Elapsed
Read the full case
Every piece, in writing

What the engagement
actually buys.

01

A topical map before the first word

The full set of questions your buyers ask, clustered into topics you can credibly own and sequenced by commercial value. Every piece we ever publish traces back to this map: no orphan posts, no content produced because the calendar had a gap. Without the map, you pay for pieces that never had a job.

First
02

A brief with every single piece

Every piece gets a brief before drafting starts: target query, search intent (what the searcher is trying to do), the answer it must give, sources to draw on, and the internal links it sends and receives. It is the same promise our SEO service makes, because it is the same discipline: you can audit exactly why each piece exists.

Every piece
03

Answer-first writing for both engines

Each piece opens by answering its own question in a form an engine can quote verbatim. It then earns the depth underneath: structure that serves a human skimming, Google ranking and an AI model deciding what to cite. One draft, three audiences.

Per calendar
04

Internal links, refresh and pruning

New pieces are wired into the map on publish day. Older ones are refreshed when their answers age, and pages that never earned their place are consolidated or cut. Authority comes from a tended library, not an ever-longer archive. An archive nobody tends drags the good pages down with it.

Quarterly
05

Reporting tied to pipeline

A monthly view connecting pieces to rankings, sessions and enquiries, including where AI engines cite you, so the calendar is judged on what it earns, not what it weighs.

Monthly
First 30 days

Audit to authority,
one cluster at a time.

01
Days 1 to 2

Content audit

Everything you've already published, inventoried and scored: what ranks, what's cited, what's cannibalising what, and what should never have shipped. Plus a baseline for every metric we'll be judged against.

02
Week 1

The map, priced

A topical map covering the clusters worth owning, sequenced by commercial value, with a publishing calendar and itemised price. You approve the plan before a word is drafted.

03
Weeks 2 to 4

First pieces shipped

Briefs approved, first pieces written, edited and published, wired into the internal-link plan from day one. Quick refreshes of your best existing pages ship alongside.

04
Month 2+

Publish & compound

The cycle begins: brief, publish, interlink, refresh, report. Clusters complete one by one, and authority built on one topic makes the next cheaper to win. That's the point of the map.

Inside Prism

Your engagement, week to week,
in one workspace.

Every marketing engagement runs in a Prism workspace you log into: requests, approvals, tasks and the weekly review, with the cost of each channel beside the leads it produced.

  • 01

    Requests and approvals

    One queue, one owner, one due date.

  • 02

    Weekly review

    Each decision recorded, with the expectation attached.

  • 03

    Cost per qualified lead

    Fully loaded. Unmeasured spend shows as unknown, never zero.

Works best wired in

Content is one part
of the machine.

Content earns most when the system pulls with it. SEO fixes the foundations your pieces rank on; answer engine optimisation makes sure AI engines can cite them; CRO turns the traffic into revenue. Unsure of your foundations? Start with SEO. Looking for a B2B content marketing agency for a long sales cycle? Pair this with B2B marketing, which maps the buying committee each piece is written for.

Questions

Frequently
asked.

It depends on cadence and competitiveness. Two pieces a month in a niche B2B category and ten a month against funded competitors are different programmes, and pretending one price fits both helps no one. Every proposal itemises exactly what ships: pieces per month, the briefs behind them, refreshes, internal-link work and reporting. Original research, design and photography are quoted separately, never hidden in the price. That way you compare deliverables rather than vague hours. You'll have a written, priced plan within 48 hours of the first call, and the initial content audit is free.

Honestly: months, not weeks. Bottom-of-funnel pieces (comparisons, alternatives, pricing questions) can earn qualified traffic within weeks because the competition is thinner and intent is high, which is why the map sequences them first. Broader topical authority typically shows meaningful movement between months three and six and compounds after that. The monthly report tracks leading indicators along the way: impressions, positions, AI citations. That way you can watch the compounding start before it reaches revenue. Anyone promising page-one results in a fortnight is selling you something other than content marketing.

We use AI the way our writers use any tool: for research, outlines and first-pass drafts where it genuinely helps. But every published word is worked and approved by a senior editor. Subject-matter depth comes from interviewing your team, not from a model's guesswork. Nothing ships unreviewed. Content that AI engines will quote has to be more accurate and more original than what those engines generate themselves.

SEO covers the whole discipline: technical health, authority building and content together. This service is the content layer on its own: the topical map, the briefs, the writing, the interlinking and the refresh cycle. Run it standalone if your technical foundations are already sound, or inside a full SEO engagement if they aren't. It also carries answer engine optimisation (AEO) throughout: answer-first structure, question-form headings and clean schema. That's what lets ChatGPT, Perplexity and AI Overviews quote what you publish. Either way it's the same team and the same standard: every piece briefed, every brief auditable.

You do, fully and permanently. Every piece, brief, topical map and internal-link plan produced during the engagement is your property, delivered in your systems. It stays yours if we ever part ways. There's no lock-in by hostage-taking: the map is documented well enough that another team could pick it up tomorrow. That's precisely why partners tend not to. For agency partners the same applies one step up: the work belongs to you and ships under your brand. Your clients never learn we exist.

Yes. A large share of our content work ships under partner agencies' brands: your templates, your client calls, our writers and editors. It's NDA-backed, with a contractual commitment never to approach your clients and a 12-month post-engagement blackout. 100+ agencies work with us this way. The average partnership runs past the two-year mark.

A topical map: the full set of questions your buyers ask, clustered into topics you can credibly own and sequenced by commercial value. Then a brief for every piece, with its target query, search intent, the answer it must give and its internal links. Nothing is drafted until both exist.

The differences you can check are practical, not stylistic. Ask for a topical map before any writing starts, so every piece has a job. Ask for a brief with every piece, naming its target query and internal links. Ask who owns the work if you part ways, and whether reporting ties pieces to rankings and enquiries. We work to all four: map and briefs first, monthly reporting, and every piece stays yours.

Find out what your
content should be doing.

Send us your site. Inside 48 hours you get a priced, itemised proposal built on a free content review: what ranks, what cannibalises what, and the clusters worth owning first. Keep the audit whether or not we ever work together.

48-hour turnaround · First piece inside 14 days · NDA standard

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