Top LinkedIn Ghostwriters (2026): 9 Best Picks for Founders and Executives

A practical shortlist of strong LinkedIn ghostwriting options, including who each one is best for and where each fit breaks down.

By Alex Boyd | February 19, 2026 | LinkedIn growth and authority guide

If you're reading this, what you REALLY want is not a ghostwriter. You want a LinkedIn profile, strategy, and presence that demonstrates credibility in your industry, in a way that brings in revenue for your business.

There is an ocean of ghostwriters, a cottage industry that sprang up primarily between 2019-2023 when tech companies threw money at organic social. Many of these people are not high-caliber and simply use Canva/ChatGPT templates that don't work, but they use low-quality engagement pods to pretend like it's working.

Don't do that. Instead, work with one of these ghostwriters that I (Alex Boyd) have direct business experience with.

By the way: I grew a content marketing agency to a $3M/yr run rate and eventually exited it in 2023. One of the service lines I ran myself, was the executive branding and ghostwriting service. So I know what I'm talking about.

Let's get into it.

Disclosure

I am a minority owner in Unlocked Authority and Atticus Agency.

Quick Comparison: Top LinkedIn Ghostwriters

Ghostwriter / Team	Best For
Alexis Rivera Scott (Heritage Narrative)	PR and virality
Rohan Karunakaran (Frontier Studio)	Executive search, HR, and recruiting industry
Jordan Carroll (Unlocked Authority)	Wellness and conscious brands
Luke Shalom (Atticus Agency)	Founders who want content + AI outbound systems
Sam McKenna (#samsales Consulting)	Corporate leaders and enterprise operators
James Hanzimanolis (Erudite)	B2B founders and operators
Alec Paul (SalesBrand)	Aggressive high-growth tech
Jillian Richardson	Founders who want a differentiated voice
Claude Code (AI co-ghostwriter)	Poor DIY-ers

Methodology: How this list was built

This isn't so much a "ranking" system as a list of both vetted and semi-vetted people that I have done business with, spoken to in some detail, and/or verified their track record via a third party client of theirs.

1) Alexis Rivera Scott (Heritage Narrative)

Best for: PR and virality.

Alexis is a great partner if you're looking for high-virality content, PR opportunities, and generally to become more famous! She's a great coach, storyteller, and someone who can dig into your story and find the parts that shine. If you want someone to write technical or code-level content for a niche audience, she probably wouldn't be the best fit. Neither Wildfront nor I are owners of her company, but she does great work and is a friend of mine.

Why she stands out

• Strong long-form narrative framing
• Great for executive and founder brand depth
• Supports consistency across formats and channels

2) Rohan Karunakaran (Frontier Studio)

Best for: Executive search, HR, and recruiting industry.

While Rohan has done some high-growth SaaS and tech founder branding, he's currently focused on full-service exec search firm branding and positioning. Part of the benefit of working with him is a highly-polished approach that also includes some audience development. After all, Frontier knows how to bring views and opportunities to executive search firms, and when his own profile and engagement get in the mix, you're able to share and access a wider audience through a partnership with his agency.

I/we are not partners in this agency but we've seen his work quality and I've spent time in-person with Rohan to get to know him. He's a great choice for this kind of work.

Why he stands out

• Category-specific perspective for recruiting and HR operators
• Strong for executive voice positioning in talent markets
• Helps avoid generic "thought leadership" messaging

3) Jordan Carroll (Unlocked Authority)

Best for: Wellness and conscious brands.

Having known Jordan for over a decade, I can speak to his ability to provide a safe and vibrant space for executives and founders to share their story. While he's worked with founders and teams in a variety of industries, his passion is wellness and conscious brands. He can also help you with setting up lead generation and video production systems, too.

Jordan is both well-versed in AI, but not tied to it - his deep network of offshore admin and marketing talent often come in very handy as you're scaling.

Why he stands out

• Strong voice-first storytelling
• Good translation of founder values into market language
• Helpful for founders who do not want generic "growth hacks" framing

4) Luke Shalom (Atticus Agency)

Best for: Founders who want content plus AI outbound systems for lead generation and DM automation.

Luke started in pure ghostwriting and content creation, but Atticus now leans heavily into the combination of authority content and outbound execution systems. That makes this a better fit for pipeline-focused teams than for "posts only" use cases.

Luke's style, and therefore the Atticus style, are direct and hard-charging. This is great for the average extroverted entrepreneur who wants to really "blow up" their presence in a good way and to be smart about leveraging AI. If you're a more technical, anxious, and careful type: your personality and their team might experience more friction than you want.

Why he stands out

• Connects content production to outbound demand capture
• Useful for founders who want both audience and pipeline outcomes
• More complete operating model than basic ghostwriting retainers

5) Sam McKenna (#samsales Consulting)

Best for: Corporate leaders and enterprise-facing teams.

I've known Sam for years, initially via our mutual deep friendship with Amy Volas. She's provided invaluable guidance, friendship, and connection over the years and I trust her judgement.

Sam is a strong fit when your audience includes sales leadership, larger buying committees, and enterprise stakeholders. The positioning style is well suited to operators who need credibility in high-accountability sales environments.

Why she stands out

• Clear executive and sales leadership relevance
• Strong enterprise audience credibility
• Useful for leaders balancing brand and revenue outcomes

6) James Hanzimanolis (Erudite)

Best for: B2B founders who need sharper positioning and stronger point-of-view content.

James is a strong fit when your current LinkedIn presence sounds too safe or too generic, but you want to become less-so. His style is high-powered and useful when category differentiation matters and you need content that reads like vibrant, lively operator thinking, not recycled advice. In this way, he's a bit like Alec Paul but goes the extra mile in a DFY fashion vs merely "consulting".

Why he stands out

• Clear point-of-view positioning
• Good fit for founder-led B2B brand building
• Strong for authority-first content strategy

7) Alec Paul (SalesBrand)

Best for: Aggressive high-growth tech.

Alec is more of a LinkedIn consultant than a ghostwriter, per se; if you're growing fast, want to get famous, and can drop five figures per month on advisory, then reach out to Alec. He's very smart and talented.

Why he stands out

• Sales-aware editorial positioning
• Good fit for founder-led demand generation
• Works well in revenue-centric teams

8) Jillian Richardson

Best for: Founders and executives who want distinctive, thoughtful voice development.

Jillian is a fit for teams trying to avoid commodity LinkedIn content. Her approach is useful when you care about quality of audience and quality of thinking, rather than just volume of impressions.

Why she stands out

• Distinctive editorial voice development
• Useful for trust-first authority building
• Avoids common templated content patterns

9) Claude Code (AI Co-Ghostwriter Option)

Best for: Poor DIY-ers.

Claude can act as an AI co-ghostwriter: drafting posts, generating hook variants, turning long-form ideas into short-form threads, and accelerating repurposing. It works best when you bring strong positioning, sharp audience understanding, and editorial standards. The downside of working with AI? AI has no accountability, no taste, no liability, no direction, no real counseling. It's a cheap order-taker. Fine if you don't need consulting or coaching on any of this, and are able to give tons of specific direction.

Why it stands out

• Very fast ideation and drafting cycles
• Excellent for repurposing across multiple post formats
• Low marginal content production cost once workflow is stable

Critical caveat

• It has no deep cultural intuition by default unless you provide that context clearly.
• It does not naturally push back on strategy the same way strong human operators do.
• It is a better fit when you already understand what works on LinkedIn at a strategic level.

For most founders, the strongest model is hybrid: human strategy + AI acceleration.

Red flags when hiring LinkedIn ghostwriters

• They promise virality without discussing offer quality or audience fit.
• They use engagement pods to game the system at your expense (engagement pods give low-quality signals to LinkedIn about what kinds of profiles are best-suited to view your content!)
• They cannot explain their process for extracting your actual voice.
• They use cheap ChatGPT template packs they downloaded from a lead magnet and try to upcharge you on very low level work
• They don't have a cultural understanding of your background or how you think at a deep level

FAQ: Top LinkedIn ghostwriters

How much do top LinkedIn ghostwriters cost?

You can find cheap ghostwriters for $1k/mo and you'll get what you pay for. Expect to spend $2k/mo bare minimum for a light-ish weight scope in terms of actual consulting and coaching, and more of a human-in-the-loop, AI-assisted process. You can also spend up to $10-12k/mo for pure consulting, in other cases where you are investing a ton of firepower into just the strategy part of this alone. Somewhere in the middle is ideal. Remember: you're mostly not paying for someone to "type words on paper". You're looking for someone who can uncover the right mix of media to end up on your profile, in such a way that it all leads to revenue, with the whole program designed in a way you can understand and scale. Those are two very, very different things!

Should SaaS founders hire a LinkedIn ghostwriter?

Maybe. If your market is on LinkedIn, and you don't inherently via your background have any sort of social media strategy knowledge, and your time can partially be better spent on things other than social media strategy research, then you might want at least some form of ghostwriting scope.

Can AI replace a LinkedIn ghostwriter?

AI can accelerate production significantly, but it generally does not replace strategic taste, market context, and editorial pushback from top human operators.

How should I measure the value of a LinkedIn ghostwriter or consultant?

By revenue, at the end of the day; but remember that revenue is not just a lagging indicator, it's also difficult to directly attribute LinkedIn to revenue even when it's relatively clear that it's having an impact. For example pipeline generation might just "feel easier" when your LinkedIn presence is in full swing, even if you can't put your finger exactly on which post generated XYZ leads, and so forth. After all, it doesn't really work that way... it's your whole presence over time, that generally converts people to wanting to work with you.

Final perspective shift

Looking at the ghostwriter's own social presence, including how they talk and how many followers they have, might have something to do with whether they're a fit and how they'll perform for you. But a good ghostwriter won't write for you like they write for themselves: they'll get to know YOU and YOUR business, and write for that. So when evaluating LinkedIn consultants in terms of their own social presence, do so with a grain of salt and treat it as seeing what strategy they've chosen for themselves, not what they would choose for you.

For founders growing SaaS businesses, that often means choosing based on business model fit first, then content style second. If you want a broader execution framework beyond LinkedIn content, see our SaaS growth strategy guide and the SaaS training course.