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Communications Engine
A 30-day communications engagement for a clearer message, a usable content system, and practical tools your team can carry forward.
Explore the Communications EngineServices / a clearer signal
Communications work that helps people lean in.
Cairnwire brings strategy, story, and connection into the same conversation—so the work sounds like you and reaches the people who matter.
What we do
Six ways to make the signal clearer.
The right mix depends on the question in front of you. Start with one need, or bring us the whole knot.
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Strategic communications
Clarify the position, priorities, and audiences that should guide your next chapter.
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Public relations
Build thoughtful relationships with the people, publications, and communities that shape the conversation.
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Storytelling
Find the human throughline in the work and turn it into stories people can understand, remember, and share.
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Content development
Develop useful, distinctive content—from messaging frameworks to editorial direction and public-facing copy.
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Audience engagement
Create ways to listen, invite participation, and keep the relationship moving beyond a single campaign.
A clear place to begin
Choose the shape of support that fits.
Start with one defined service from the published menu, or explore the broader Communications Engine engagement.
Individual fixed-price service
One focused communications need
Choose one clearly bounded project from Cairnwire's published fixed-price menu, such as a communications audit and recommendations, when its scope matches the communications question in front of you.
Review fixed-price offersBroader defined engagement
Cairnwire Communications Engine™
A human 30-day communications engagement and transformation for a clearer message, a usable content system, and practical tools for carrying the work forward.
Project offers / direct next steps
Choose a defined starting point for the work.
These are recommended starting prices for clearly bounded projects. They give you a useful way into the work; Cairnwire confirms the final scope and fit before work begins.
Fixed-price comparison
Compare scope, fit, and starting price.
Each entry uses the offer catalog’s published details. Choose an inquiry or continue to checkout for a fixed-scope project.
Communications audit and recommendations
- Published scope
- A focused review of current communications with a prioritized set of recommendations for next steps.
- Best fit
- Organizations that need a focused review of current communications and prioritized next steps.
- Starting price
- Recommended starting price: $650
90-day communications strategy
- Published scope
- A practical 90-day direction-setting document with priorities, audiences, messages, and an action sequence.
- Best fit
- Organizations that need near-term priorities, audience-aware messages, and an actionable 90-day direction.
- Starting price
- Recommended starting price: $1,800
Comprehensive communications plan
- Published scope
- A fuller communications plan that connects organizational context, audiences, messages, channels, and implementation guidance.
- Best fit
- Organizations with broader organizational, audience, channel, and implementation needs.
- Starting price
- Recommended starting price: $3,500
Messaging framework and audience guide
- Published scope
- A reusable message foundation with audience-specific guidance for consistent, context-aware communication.
- Best fit
- Organizations that need reusable language and distinct guidance for communicating consistently with multiple audiences.
- Starting price
- Recommended starting price: $1,500
Social media strategy and 30-day content calendar
- Published scope
- A channel direction and 30-day calendar with content prompts, themes, and practical publishing guidance.
- Best fit
- Organizations that need channel direction, content prompts, and practical publishing guidance for the next month.
- Starting price
- Recommended starting price: $950
Campaign development and launch toolkit
- Published scope
- Campaign framing, core messages, audience considerations, and launch-ready communication tools.
- Best fit
- Organizations preparing a defined campaign that needs framing, core messages, audience considerations, and launch-ready tools.
- Starting price
- Recommended starting price: $2,500
Press release with basic media list
- Published scope
- One press release draft plus a basic, relevant media list for the story or announcement.
- Best fit
- Organizations with a specific story or announcement that needs a release draft and a relevant starting media list.
- Starting price
- Recommended starting price: $650
Feature article or impact story
- Published scope
- One polished feature or impact story shaped from supplied context, interviews, and supporting materials.
- Best fit
- Organizations with supplied context, interviews, and supporting materials that need one polished public-facing story.
- Starting price
- Recommended starting price: $450
Website copywriting, up to 5 pages
- Published scope
- Copy for up to five agreed website pages, shaped around the organization, audience, and intended user journey.
- Best fit
- Organizations shaping a defined set of website pages around their audience and intended user journey.
- Starting price
- Recommended starting price: $1,750
Email nurture sequence, 5 emails
- Published scope
- Five connected email drafts with a clear sequence, audience context, and suggested calls to action.
- Best fit
- Organizations that need five connected email drafts to guide a defined audience toward clear calls to action.
- Starting price
- Recommended starting price: $900
Stakeholder or partner outreach toolkit
- Published scope
- Audience-aware outreach language and reusable tools for communicating with stakeholders or partners.
- Best fit
- Organizations coordinating communication with stakeholders or partners and needing reusable, audience-aware outreach tools.
- Starting price
- Recommended starting price: $1,500
Annual report writing and content organization
- Published scope
- Editorial structure, content organization, and writing support for an annual report built from supplied materials.
- Best fit
- Organizations assembling an annual report from supplied materials that need editorial structure, organization, and writing support.
- Starting price
- Recommended starting price: $2,500
Community engagement or outreach strategy
- Published scope
- A context-aware strategy for listening, outreach, participation, and communication across a defined community.
- Best fit
- Community organizations and other place-based organizations that need a context-aware approach to listening, outreach, participation, and communication across a defined community.
- Starting price
- Recommended starting price: $2,750
Conversation first
Multi-stakeholder communications initiative
A scoped conversation for complex work involving multiple audiences, partners, phases, or communication needs.
$5,000–$7,500+ range
Before you choose
A few practical answers.
How the purchase and inquiry paths work, in plain language.
The Cairnwire way
Start with the people and place.
Good communications are not poured over an organization from the outside. They grow from what is already true: the history, the ambition, the questions, and the people who make the work matter. We bring an outside perspective without flattening that context.
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Let's find the clearest way forward.
Tell us what you are trying to make clearer, and we will start with a thoughtful conversation.