Media that drives the next conversation.

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Increase the velocity of founder-led sales with strategic messaging, brand collateral, and high-impact content.
Move Pipeline

High-Impact Content.

We identify specific opportunities to educate the customer, and produce deeply-researched and detail-oriented whitepapers, articles, video, and events. Create once, and fill your calendar for months.
Create Content that Travels
Show up Bigger

Brand Collateral.

Using your upcoming calendar as our guide, we strengthen and unify your presence across website, social, pitches, and conferences. Stand out at every event, and impress everyone who checks you out.
Build the Next Big Brand
Educate the Market

Strategic Messaging.

Drawing on research sourced from inside and outside of the company, we build the foundation for all company communications, paired with a quarterly roadmap that aligns the team and activates your network to take action on the company’s behalf.
Chart the Roadmap
Embedded Leadership

Media-fueled Growth.

Build a bridge to the first full-time marketing hire with an integrated strategy that infuses media into sales, fundraising, product, and hiring. You’ve built it. To grow, you have to tell the world about it.
How We Work

A great founder needs a great story, and they have to tell it as early and as often as possible.

Stephen Babcock started Intake Media to make storytelling an asymmetrical advantage for early-stage companies targeting government and regulated industries. 

Over two decades in VC, startups, and journalism, Babcock has worked with numerous founders to map their lived experience and product passion to where the market is heading  next. Today, he partners with early-stage founders to bring out the stories that will make them the topic of the next meeting. You have the vision. Together, we will it into the world.

Meet Stephen Babcock

Our services

Thought Leadership  

Blog. eBooks. Manifesto. Writing & Editing.

Whitepapers

Government Affairs. Category Creation. Product Marketing.

Events

Preparation. Execution. Follow-up Campaigns.

Social Media

Content. Calendar. Measurement.

Be Your Own Media

Newsletter. Interviews. Podcast.

Video

Filming. Editing. Campaigns.

Market Discovery

Interviews. Reports. Distribution.

PR

Media Kit. Press Releases. Media Outreach.

Conference Prep

Presentations. Booth. Collateral.

Sales

Decks. Emails. Hubspot. Follow-up Campaigns.

CMO

Messaging. GTM Strategy. Content Creation. Calendar.
As a busy founder, Stephen understands my individual "voice," and how to support both my long form writing, content I create, and helps me create content that I should be creating but otherwise wouldn’t because of time! He’s a self starter and very reliable.
Steve Massey
CEO of SysGit
Stephen is phenomenal to work with! He takes the time to go in-depth on our market, our business and our goals, and he uses that to create truly unique thought leadership content that is meaningful to the executives we’re aiming to reach, and available across many formats, like video, white papers, eBook, social posts, and more. Every piece of content he has created for us is high quality and reaches our buyers. We enjoy how collaborative he is with us so working with him feels like working with someone who is truly on our team! He’s great at identifying gaps and throwing out ideas that we never would have thought of. He is thorough, reliable, and overall a pleasure to work with!
Tina Bhatia
Co-Founder & Head of Business Development
Datalogz
We are building a brand new brand from scratch, and that requires a new voice and lots of content. I appreciate how Stephen uses his interviewing skills to get perspective from different members of the team and does the research. He understands how startups work from whiteboarding sessions to producing a video.
Evan Dornbush
CEO of Desired Effect

Not sure where to start?

Whether you’re pitching, selling, interviewing or hiring, founders have to nail the story, every time.

Through Media Training, you’ll learn to connect the message to the audience, communicate succinctly, and drive toward a follow-up. Intake Media will facilitate a 90-minute to half-day session depending on group size.

You’ll leave with a story and a plan to tell it, widely.

Book a 15-minute intro call