No one understands

what you do.

Because you haven’t decided yet.

I help ‘hard-to-explain’ companies stop losing business to simpler competitors.
By doing the research-led, customer-grounded positioning work that everything else depends on.

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Most products fit a lot of buyers.
And solve a lot of problems.

But when you try to say all of it, you end up generic.

  • ... at least on paper.

    McKinsey gets to do everything for everyone.
    You don't. Not yet.

    Your company must sing to your ideal prospect.
    Not just list them.

    You don't expect Michelin quality from supermarket sushi.

  • ... and still nothing lands.

    Copy is downstream of decisions. If you haven't made the decisions, no writer can save you.

    Third homepage of the year, and the conversion hasn't moved. You've been editing the symptom.

  • ... nobody's choice.

    You can't build something great without knowing who it's great for.

    Every decision splits the difference. The product becomes the average of everyone's requests.

    Adequate is your ceiling.

  • ... because people buy the story they can repeat.

    Deals close in the retelling. Your champion has to explain it to someone who wasn't in the room.

    She loved the demo. Her CFO didn't get it.
    The deal went to someone thinner and clearer.

Here’s the thing:

Positioning

is sequencing.

It's deciding which parts of your story come first.
And for whom.

What you lead with now isn't what you lead with forever.

  • Stripe was for developers, not CFOsand now owns enterprise.

  • NVIDIA was the gaming GPUand gained the credibility for AI.

  • Amazon was the online bookshopwhilst building everything else.

  • TSMC was the pure-play foundry and every chip designer followed.

None of them locked any doors.
Their positions opened them.

It’s about identifying and owning the context that makes you the obvious answer to exactly the right buyer.

That’s when they

understand you.

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I’m Will Murray,
a Scottish positioning strategist in The Hague
.

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Hard-to-explain products don't need hard-to-explain positions.

Positioning sits at the intersection of three things: what your business does differently, what the market actually needs, and where the real opportunity is – given where you are right now.

That's what my work finds, brings together, and puts into language that makes the right buyer recognise themselves immediately.

Companies put this off for years. With me, it takes 4–6 weeks.

But fast work isn't guesswork. I start with deep research: your market, your customers, and how your own team already talks about what you do.

We shape the direction together.

Then I sort everything – the team narrative, the website, the sales guides – that aligns the company around what we’ve found.

At the end, you have a clear position that holds up, a team pulling the same way, and the right people coming to you.

Let's talk. 20 minutes to stop circling.

Recent work.

  • AZTRA.ai logo

    Specific first. Open after.

    AI can do a lot. But try to speak to everyone and you speak to no one. AZTRA was doing serious work for enterprise clients in retail, CPG, and manufacturing. I positioned them as experts in those industries first, with the door held open for the ones to come.

  • Kalo logo

    Same story. Different angle.

    Sometimes positioning is just a different angle on the same story. Kalo had been selling itself as ‘a services provider’ for farmers. I repositioned the company as ‘a partner and technological enabler’ of Georgia's growing agricultural sector.

  • Billiwild logo in dark green

    Research picks the buyer.

    Billiwild's €1,000 vertical garden could have gone many ways. Research across Reddit, YouTube, and TikTok pointed to a buyer the category had missed. I built the messaging around the aesthetic that sells it and the fear that kills it: mould on the wall.

Testimonials.

Some musings.

A proper look
at your positioning.

Send me your site.

I'll come back within a week with the thing I'd change first.