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COVER STORY

Your story
deserves the front page.

By youMay 22, 2026 · 6 min read

A full PR operation in one product. The precision, taste, and discipline of a senior strategist at a great boutique agency, running your campaign from brief to coverage.

the attention tax

Everyone's sending more.
Nobody's landing more.

0%

of journalists delete pitches that miss their beat.

Up from 73% in 2024. Beat fit is the gate every pitch has to pass.¹

0 in 10

journalists can spot a generated or templated pitch.

Most of them frequently. The rest often enough that it's not worth the risk.²

0%

the reply rate on cold pitches for a working beat reporter.

Sending more just adds to what they ignore.³

¹ Muck Rack, State of Journalism 2026. 1,044 journalists surveyed January to March 2026.

² Cristy Brusoe, 100-journalist pitch-detection survey, 2026.

³ Industry baseline; Muck Rack 2026 + persona research.

manifesto · no. 01

The ones who break through
aren't louder. They're sharper.

Hijack runs your campaign the way a senior strategist actually runs one.

I

Precision on who gets pitched.

II

Discipline on what goes out.

III

Care on the follow-up.

IV

One voice across every step.

You don't have to explain PR to Hijack.

Hijack already knows.

how it works

How a Hijack campaign runs.

Eight steps. One voice across all of them.

STEP 01

Brief

You tell Hijack what the story is. Hijack tells you what's worth telling, and what isn't ready yet.

// readinessRECON
78/ 100 · Promising

Strong product story with a defensible novelty claim. Soften the scale assumption before pitching climate-science desks.

Novelty
82
Data Strength
79
Relevance
74
Emotional Pull
58

STEP 02

Draft

A press release in your voice, written for the story you brought.

REYKJAVÍK · APR 18, 2026

Fieldnote debuts Moss, an outdoor jacket spun from atmospheric carbon.

Fieldnote today introduced Moss, an outdoor jacket that uses shell polymer captured from the atmosphere by its two-year partner Aria Carbon.

humanizer: passed

STEP 03

Q&A

Every hostile question rehearsed before the call. The answers feed back to tighten the release.

HIGH

"At consumer scale" is doing real work in your headline. What's the unit volume on the first production run?

MED

Aria Carbon hasn't released peer-reviewed efficiency data. How should a reader weigh your carbon-negative claim?

LOW

How does Moss compare on durability to a standard synthetic shell at the same weight?

STEP 04

Newsroom & media kit

Your release and assets ready in one place. Set it public, private, or embargoed. Offer exclusives right from the page.

// moss · press kitembargoed
  • Moss · hero imageJPG · 4.2 MB
  • Product shots (×3)JPG · 11.8 MB
  • Life cycle assessmentPDF · 842 KB
  • Spec sheetPDF · 216 KB
  • Founder biosPDF · 128 KB
lifts apr 18 · 08:00 GMT2 exclusive requests pending

STEP 05

Intelligent journalist matching

A shortlist of journalists who actually fit. Handpicked, not blasted.

// match shortlist3 of 248

Mara Lindqvist

Fast Company

94%

Jens Kowalczyk

Wired

89%

Priya Menon

Bloomberg Green

87%

STEP 06

Personalized pitching

Each pitch is written to one journalist. Their beat, their recent coverage, and the angle that fits.

To: Mara Lindqvist, Fast Company

Subject: Fieldnote's carbon-negative jacket, with the full LCA

Mara,

Your February piece on Aria Carbon picked at the scale question better than anything else I've read. Fieldnote's been sitting on the answer, and I wanted you to have it first.

Moss ships April 18. Shell fabric is woven entirely from polymer Aria Carbon captured from the atmosphere over the last two years. First production run: 4,200 units across three colorways. LCA is attached, Reykjavík-to-Asia shipping broken out on page four.

Our founder Sofia and Aria's Lukas are around for a joint call this week if the numbers check out.

STEP 07

Deploy

Your release goes live on The Wire. The shortlist gets their pitches. Journalists can request an exclusive straight from the page.

The Wire · by Hijacklive
moss · moss-leaf colorway · ss26

REYKJAVÍK · APR 18, 2026 · 08:00 GMT

Fieldnote debuts Moss, an outdoor jacket spun from atmospheric carbon.

Fieldnote today introduced Moss, an outdoor jacket that uses shell polymer captured from the atmosphere by its two-year partner Aria Carbon.

42 views·6 reading now
request exclusive

STEP 08

Signals

Replies, embargo lifts, exclusive requests. All in one inbox, with Gmail wired in so threads live with your campaign.

// signals · inbox4 new

9

replies

2

exclusives

1

embargo lift

38m

fastest reply

  • M

    Mara Lindqvist

    reply

    Fast Company

    "LCA looks solid. Thanks for the media kit, this is in the running for Monday."

    38m
  • J

    Jens Kowalczyk

    exclusive

    Wired

    "Any chance of a solo on the LCA numbers? I'd run it as a standalone."

    1h
  • P

    Priya Menon

    embargo lift

    Bloomberg Green

    "Can we shift the lift to Monday 09:00 GMT? Our climate desk is packed Sunday."

    2h
  • D

    Daniela Otero

    reply

    The Verge

    "Quick one before I commit: is there a second colorway we haven't seen?"

    4h
gmail synced · 3 threads open
reputation · four pillars

Strong

hijack reputation

Your reputation, measured on four things that matter.

Every brand in Hijack carries a public reputation badge, scored across four pillars on a rolling 30-day window. From Solid onward it shows up on every press release you publish and in every journalist's inbox on /wire. That's how journalists tell a repeat-earner apart from a cold blast.

Precision

How often the journalists you pitch actually reply.

Trust

Whether you honor embargoes and follow-up commitments.

Craft

Voice depth, Recon scores, and published releases.

Partnership

Pacing discipline and reciprocity with journalists.

// tier ladder
Building
Solid
Strong
Exceptional
voice contract · proprietary

Sounds like you.

Every brand in Hijack has a Voice Contract. It's a tone profile Hijack learns from how you already talk, and keeps to on every word it writes for you.

// live · press release openervoice preview

Today, Fieldnote introduces Moss, a new outdoor jacket made from atmospheric carbon, with Aria Carbon, shipping May 2 in three colorways.

the humanizer · proprietary

Nothing ships that reads as AI.

Nine in ten journalists can spot a generated pitch. The Humanizer is our gate against that. Every draft we write gets reviewed the way a journalist would read it, and sent back until it passes.

what gets returnedai · 74/100

We are excited to unveil our latest groundbreaking innovation that will revolutionize how the outdoor industry thinks about materials.

// what tripped it

Template opener
Banned: excited, groundbreaking, revolutionize
Tricolon rhythm
humanizer
what shipshuman · 8/100

Moss is the first outdoor jacket we know of made from carbon we pulled out of the sky. We're glad to finally show it to you.

// what it has instead

Specific opener, earned voice
Plain language, varied rhythm
Blind-read pass at 8/100
the details

All the bits nobody else thought about.

Small things, in the places where PR work actually gets stuck.

// screenshot · dashboard

Dashboard

Every campaign you're running, one glance. Status visible without anyone having to ask for an update.

// screenshot · media-kit

Media kit builder

Your assets in one place. A public page when you need it. No more chasing logos late at night.

// screenshot · publishing

Publishing with embargo controls

Your story stays yours until you release it. Select journalists can request an exclusive right on the page itself, without a single back-and-forth email.

// screenshot · signals

Signals

Reply to a journalist right inside Hijack. Gmail is wired in so your threads live with your campaign. Journalists can reach you in one click, straight from the release.

// screenshot · analytics

Analytics

Reply rate. Response time. Per journalist, per outlet, per campaign. Whatever the next question is, the answer's already on the screen.

// screenshot · learning

A product that sharpens over time

Hijack learns your voice, your beats, and the angles that land for you. Every campaign you run feeds back into the next one.

intelligent journalist matching

The shortlist, with the reasoning shown.

Every name on the list is here for a reason. Beat. Outlet. Seniority. Region. Past replies. Hijack shows you the math behind each pick.

// fit score · breakdownMara Lindqvist
  • BEATBeat fit+28

    Her February piece on Aria Carbon picked at the scale question nobody else would.

  • OUTLETOutlet match+22

    Fast Company · sustainability & design desk.

  • SENIORSeniority+18

    Senior staff writer. Right rung for a product story at this scope.

  • REGIONRegional precision+14

    EU coverage, Reykjavík-based launch.

  • REPLYReply history+12

    Replied to three of the last five climate briefs we placed in her inbox.

∑ fit score94%
M

Mara Lindqvist

Fast Company · Sustainability & Design

// recent

"The scaling problem nobody wants to talk about" · Feb 2026

fit

94%

J

Jens Kowalczyk

Wired · Climate tech

89%

P

Priya Menon

Bloomberg Green · Consumer sustainability

87%

3 of 248 reviewedhandpicked

This is where every other step pays off. The matching works because everything before it fed it the right inputs.

the briefing

Rehearse the interview. Sharpen the release.

Hostile questions ranked by risk, with drafted answers. You walk into every call prepared. And the weak spots they surface come back to tighten the release itself, before it ships.

HIGH

"At consumer scale" is doing real work in your headline. What's the unit volume on the first production run, and does Aria Carbon's Reykjavík facility hold up if you double it next year?

MEDIUM

Aria Carbon hasn't released peer-reviewed efficiency data on its DAC process. How should a reader weigh your carbon-negative claim without it?

LOW

How does Moss compare on durability to a standard synthetic shell at the same weight?

modes

Built for how you work.

Company

Product launches, funding rounds, partnerships, hires, research, events. Built for the beats and outlets that actually cover them.

Public figure

Book launches, album drops, show announcements, op-eds, personal milestones. For authors, artists, speakers, and executives with their own voice.

Your mode shapes how a draft starts, who you pitch, and how it sounds. You don't configure Hijack. Hijack configures to you.

pricing

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No seats, no surprise upgrades, no contact-sales routine.

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