I help organizations connect with their audience, build trust, and move people toward action — in fintech, cybersecurity, and anywhere complex ideas need to land clearly.
Whether your content needs a full rebuild, a strategic audit, or a stronger foundation from the start, I work across every stage — from diagnosis to final draft.
I review what you have, identify what's underperforming and why, and map out exactly what needs to change. No dashboards, just clear editorial judgment about what your content is and isn't doing.
Before writing a word, I figure out who the piece is actually for, what it needs to argue, and how it should be built. Strategy and execution from the same person, no handoff required.
Blog posts, guides, product pages, FAQs, written from scratch or rebuilt from weak drafts. Especially strong in complex, regulated, and trust-critical industries.
In any industry where trust matters, content that's vague, generic, or aimed at the wrong audience doesn't just underperform. Financial services, healthcare, technology, professional services: it actively erodes the confidence you're trying to build.
"The gap between 'we have content' and 'our content does something' is almost always a strategy problem, not a volume problem."
Every piece below started as a weak brief or an agency draft aimed at the wrong audience. The industries are fintech and cybersecurity. The skills transfer anywhere.
Agency draft targeted enterprise fraud teams. I rebuilt it entirely for SMB owners, cutting 9 sections to 4, reidentifying the audience, and making the Moneris CTA earn its place.
E-commerce · MonerisGeneric listicle with interchangeable descriptions. Rebuilt with a consistent "best for" framework, real template differentiation, and a CTA tied directly to the Moneris-Wix partnership.
Payments · MonerisDraft focused on the wrong threat type for the audience. I reframed around the actual SMB problem, built a tighter thesis, and structured it around how payment providers solve it automatically.
Cybersecurity · ExpressVPNCommercial landing pages for high-traffic VPN markets. Audience-specific positioning, trust-building structure, and conversion-focused copy for a globally recognized cybersecurity brand.
Mike was an absolute pleasure to work with. He has a real talent for taking rough drafts and turning them into something stellar, or creating engaging copy from scratch. His writing is always clear, conversational and of the highest quality, and it consistently helps our content stand amongst the competition.
Mike is a reliable, fast-learning writer who consistently delivers high-quality content in the cybersecurity/tech space and takes feedback with professionalism. He made my job producing content a whole lot easier, and I'd gladly work with him again.
Mike's a reliable, professional copywriter, truly a safe pair of hands. He delivers accurate, engaging copy across everything from conversion-focused sales content to informative articles. He always aligns with best practices. If you're looking for a skilled and dependable writer, I highly recommend him.
Mike is an excellent copywriter. Editing his work was never a chore and he stuck to our company guidelines and practices. He delivered engaging articles across a range of topics whilst keeping regular contact about timelines and any questions he had. He was a pleasure to work with and I'd highly recommend him.
"I don't hand off between strategy and writing. I do both, which means nothing gets lost in translation."
I help organizations connect with their audience, build trust, and move people toward action. I do this by making complex information clear, credible, and useful for the people who actually need to read it.
My background spans fintech, payments, SaaS, and cybersecurity, industries where vague content doesn't just underperform, it costs trust. But the skills I built there transfer to any organization that needs to communicate clearly in a regulated, competitive, or high-stakes environment.
I work across the full content lifecycle: auditing what exists, identifying what's broken and why, and building what's missing.
Based in the Greater Toronto Area. Open to full-time roles and freelance contracts globally.
Whether you need an audit, a strategy, or someone to build it from scratch, I'd like to hear what you're working on.
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