A $1,500 one-time benchmark, scored across your Profile, Network, Content, and Client Wins. Built from years of running this exact research for Fractional Director clients — there’s nothing else on LinkedIn that goes this deep, using your own real data, from the ground up.
Before anyone reads your pitch, they read you. A serious B2B buyer’s first move is a LinkedIn search — your profile, your content, whatever proof of client wins they can find — long before they ever take a call. In B2B, nothing sells; trust buys.
And in an age where AI can fake almost everything else about an outreach, that search is one of the last places real trust still gets decided.
Most founders have never had that search actually audited. The Trust Authority Benchmark is that audit.
Most LinkedIn advice is generic — a checklist, a score nobody actually built for you. The Trust Authority Benchmark isn’t that. It’s the same research method run for clients paying up to $7,500 a month for the Fractional LinkedIn Strategy Director mandate — years of working with founders, built into one scored report, using your own real LinkedIn data and AI-assisted analysis, not a 30-minute read of what you tell us. Nothing else on LinkedIn digs this deep, this specifically, into what you’ve already built.
It’s also not a one-off. It’s built on the same platform, the same foundation, as the Strategy Director’s own scope of work — so if you ever step into that mandate, nothing here gets thrown away and redone. This Benchmark is the ground floor of that system, not a separate assessment of it.
Not every founder needs this — that specificity is what makes it a benchmark instead of generic advice.
Roughly 8 to 20+ years in, real client wins, a real reputation — where the trust already exists but isn't yet doing pipeline work for you.
Seed to Series A, in niches where buyers won't move until they trust the person behind the company, and there isn't yet twenty years of reputation to lean on.
Either way, this is as much about where you’re headed as where you’ve been — the Benchmark tends to matter most when one of these is true:
This is Human-Led AI at its most useful — the perfect blend of machine and human, each doing the part the other can’t.
The AI does what no person has time to do by hand: it reads your actual LinkedIn Activity data and your real network composition, scoring what’s there against your ICP in exact detail — content, connections, positioning. That’s the audit, done at a scale and speed a human never could.
Then the human part takes over — sitting with you live to build the exact ICP filters your business needs in Sales Navigator, deciding which findings are actually highest-leverage, and sequencing the 9-12 month course that turns a snapshot into a plan.
AI reads and scores the real data; a director decides what it means and what comes first. That blend, run at Director-client depth, is what makes this a benchmark, not just a report.
A score out of 100 — Profile, Network, Content, and Client Wins, 25 points each — scored on the same four-state scale (Built & Compounding / Built & Dormant / Started, Incomplete / Not Yet Built) used at every tier of this work. Alongside it, a separate read of where you stand against your own LinkedIn SSI — a second, independent benchmark, not folded into the 100.
A sequenced plan: which 2-3 moves matter most first, and why. Framed the same way everywhere else in this work — right-room conversations, a warming network, searched-founder status — never a revenue number.