The Silent Check
What decision-makers see before they call
The check is already running. Clients, candidates, and the people across the table look you up before they make the first move. The Silent Check is that same check, run once by you: ten questions about what a stranger finds when they look. At the end you get your findings, on screen, right away.
Keep an incognito window open: the first questions you run right in the browser.
The starting point
Why this check happens without you
Before anyone calls you, offers you a mandate, or applies to work with you, they have almost always looked you up first. Clients are no different from candidates. In our first calls with founders, the same pattern repeats: the people who matter have read whatever the first page of results shows long before they say a word.
What defines this check is its silence. No one announces it, no one tells you the result. You never learn what was found, or what the finding set in motion. Trust forms before the first conversation, on surfaces you rarely look at: the first page of your search results, your profile, the mentions of your name. The Silent Check is that same check, run once from your side.
The scope
Four axes, ten questions
Each question is about one surface where decisions about you get made. You answer from what you check yourself: in an incognito window, on your profile, across your own sources.
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Findability 3 questions
Can you be found, and what shows up first? The first page of your search results, read the way a stranger reads it.
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Profile substance 3 questions
Whoever finds you usually lands on your profile. A decision-maker reads it not as a business card but as evidence: photo, headline, text.
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Recency 2 questions
Everything on these surfaces carries a date, and whoever reads you reads the timestamps too. Standstill and abandoned channels.
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Consistency 2 questions
Last, they read across: do your website, profile, and press say the same thing? Versions, numbers, dates.
The stance
1 Bn+
Annual reach managed
55M+
Combined followers across our mandates
15+
Years in marketing, 8 of them in personal branding
Visibility without self-promotion
Self-promotion is a choice, not a duty, and this check does not argue for it. It only shows what the people checking find. A well-kept picture asks for no stage and no weekly post, only facts that hold and surfaces that are not left to go stale. Your findings at the end of the check spell that out.
The check happens, with you or without you. The Silent Check changes one thing only: you see the result first.
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The result
No gut feel. A finding you keep.
At the end of the ten questions you get your own findings: on screen right away, and saved as a PDF from there.
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Your finding, named
Whether the check reads you as consistent, contradictory, neglected, or invisible. With a score across all ten checks and your weakest axis.
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The reading, without drama
What a finding costs you in a check, and what it plainly does not mean. A finding here is no verdict on your professional substance.
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Concrete moves for your surfaces
All four axes, ordered by your result: Findability, Profile substance, Recency, Consistency. Upkeep, not an editorial calendar.
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Your next 14 days
Three steps to put the picture right before the next decision-maker looks.
10 questions · about 8 minutes · findings on screen right away