TheDraftist combines ad agency experience and English professor expertise to deliver thoughtful and persuasive prose, curated to fit your voice.

A boutique communications consultancy in Washington, D.C.

We provide prose on demand for discerning clients of cultural and national import.

Prose on demand.

  • We support sophisticated, long-term positions by crafting and executing comprehensive, multifaceted messaging strategies.

  • We deliver elegant—and successful—effort responses by combining vivid, practical writing with rigorous attention to compliance considerations.

  • We distill complex initiatives into concise, clear, and purpose-driven prose.

  • We leverage over a decade of focused rhetorical scholarship to help clients who have something to say, say it.

  • We have been published everywhere from scholarly journals to the Space Report. We can master your voice, no matter the medium.

  • Our academic work finds us deep in the recesses of university libraries, and we’re uniquely poised for fast and insightful investigation.

  • Communicating nuanced ideas takes time and precision—our combination of discipline and insight is here to help.

A few of our clients

It is, perhaps, inevitable that a student of the art of persuasion would found a communications firm. A Ph.D. candidate in English Literature, Ann built her career at the intersection of academia and public life. She founded TheDraftist in 2019 to serve the enterprises and individuals who seek a more tailored approach to strategic discourse support.

Based in Washington, D.C., Ann leverages cross-disciplinary strengths to compose precise, sophisticated, and effective prose. (At least, you’ve hung on this far, haven’t you?)

Our story


We’re interested in the practically effective communication of nuanced ideas.

Email hello@thedraftist.com to learn about how we’ve delivered success for our clients.

“Tell the damned story.”

— Tom Clancy

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