A content agency, Los Angeles

Most agencies make content nobody reads. We make content people share.

If your social feels like a graveyard of corporate posts nobody engages with, you're not alone. You're just hiring the wrong people. We're the agency that fixes that.

Work with us

— Why us

We've done this at scale. Not in theory.

200K+

Books sold across 8 languages

1B+

Social views on a podcast we co-founded that hit #1 on Apple

5×

Revenue growth on a product line at a private equity-backed company

360K+

Members in an online community we built from scratch

— The problem

You're paying for posts nobody reads.

You've hired social media managers before. None of them moved the needle. The content goes up, gets three likes, and disappears.

The "engagement" your last agency reported was your team and your mom. Your competitors are growing audiences. You're posting into the void.

You know content matters. You just haven't found anyone who can write the kind of content real people actually want to read.

— What we do

We write. You post.

Strategy and writing, delivered to you weekly. You handle posting and replying to your own customers.

Written social content

We write your LinkedIn, Instagram captions, Instagram Stories, TikTok, Threads, and X posts in a voice that actually sounds human. No "thrilled to announce" energy. No emoji-stuffed corporate filler. Delivered to you ready to post.

Newsletter & long-form

We write the newsletter your customers actually look forward to opening. Substack, Beehiiv, or your existing email tool. Written like a person, not a marketing department.

Monthly performance review

Each month, you get a written breakdown of what posts worked, what didn't, and what we're testing next.

— Who we work with

Consumer brands who'd rather be interesting.

Coworking spaces

Gyms & boutique fitness

Restaurants & hospitality

Retail & e-commerce

Wellness & beauty

Real estate brands

Services with personality

Lifestyle businesses

— Who we are

Built by a marketer who's actually sold things.

Cory Althoff is the author of The Self-Taught Programmer, The Self-Taught Computer Scientist, and the forthcoming Self-Taught Marketer: The Definitive Guide to Marketing Without a Team. His books have sold 200K+ copies in eight languages.

He co-founded The Really Good Podcast, which got one billion views on social media.

As Senior Vice President of Product Marketing at CompTIA, he 5x'd the revenue of his product line.

He started this agency because he kept seeing small businesses pay good money for content no one wanted to read. So he built Hard Stop.

Education USC Marshall School of Business, MBA

Based Los Angeles, California

Past SVP, Product Marketing — CompTIA

Press Forbes, People Magazine, Yahoo

Let's make people stop scrolling.

We work with a small number of clients each quarter. Tell us about your business and what you're trying to build. We respond within two business days.