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WESTCO copy
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Issue · No. 03 · Spring · MMXXVI

WESTCO.copy. FOR BRANDS WITH SOMETHING TO SAY.

WESTCO.copy. FOR BRANDS WITH SOMETHING TO SAY.

Filed by

Alex Padilla
Founder & Lead Copy

+  editors,
strategists, and one librarian.

We are a copywriting studio for founders, fashion houses and quietly-ambitious things — building brands that read out loud. Long-form when it earns it. Three words when it doesn't.

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§ 01 / Services Offered

THE KIT.

Six disciplines · one studio
01Voice

Brand
voice.

The full vocal-cord workup. How your brand sounds when it whispers, when it shouts, and on the day it has to apologize. Ships with a voice guide your team will actually open, and a lexicon they'll quote in meetings.

  • Voice Guidelines
  • Lexicon
  • Tone Matrix
  • Do / Don't
02Launch

Launch
copy.

Site copy, hero lines, the press release, the email your founder is too nervous to send. We write all of it assuming a person, with taste, on a Tuesday afternoon, is going to read it.

  • Homepage
  • Press
  • Email
  • Investor Deck
03Naming

Naming
things.

Products, companies, the haunted SKU nobody wants to inherit. 200-name long-lists, defensible short-lists, the one your CEO will pretend they thought of.

  • Brand Names
  • Product Lines
  • Tagline
  • URL Hunt
04Editorial

Long-
form.

Manifestos, founder essays, the slow-burn newsletter that becomes the brand. Reported, edited, footnoted.

  • Manifesto
  • Newsletter
  • Op-Ed
  • About Page
05Campaign

Camp-
aigns.

Headlines that fit on a billboard and arguments that fit in a thirty-second spot. We work alongside your designers, or we bring ours.

  • OOH
  • Social
  • Video Scripts
  • Print
06Rescue

The
rescue.

You wrote it yourself. It is fine. You hate it. We come in for one week, with a pen, and leave with the version you wanted in the first place.

  • 1-Week Sprint
  • Audit
  • Rewrite
  • Polish
§ 03 / The Manifesto

WE BELIEVE.

Re-issued annually
From the editor's desk

That a brand is a logo sentence. That copy is the part of design that is read out loud. That tone is the new typography. That the right word, set in the right place, on a Tuesday afternoon, can do the work of a media buy. That if it can be deleted, it should be. That the best writing sounds like a person you would trust to feed your dog. We are not here to fill space. We are here to fill the page with the smallest possible number of words that could only have come from you.

— Maren Westcott, founder
Westco Copy  ·  first published 2019  ·  revised whenever we're wrong
— Document W/C–019 · revised v.06
§ 04 / How we work

THE METHOD.

Four weeks · sometimes three
01

Listen,
at length.

Two long calls. We read every email your founder ever wrote. We ask what you wish you sounded like, and what you do not.

02

Argue,
on paper.

A first draft of voice, tone, and three sample pieces. Marked up by us, then by you. We don't write to please; we write to be true.

03

Refine,
in red pen.

Second pass. Cuts. New cuts. A line you forgot you wanted to read. The version that survives this round is usually the version that ships.

04

Hand it
over.

Final assets, a voice guideline your team will actually open, and a 30-day window where we answer texts about commas.

§ 05 / Get in touch
WRITE TO US.
COPY@ALEXWESTCO.COM

Or send us
a brief.

Three sentences will do. We read every one, we reply within forty-eight hours, and we never sell your inbox to anyone.

Studio

California · remote
working with brands worldwide

Availability

Open · taking two clients
for July '26.

Opens your email client · we reply within 48 hrs
Brief drafted. Hit send in the email window we just opened. ✓ Handed off
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