An automation company with genuinely strong technology described itself entirely in jargon. Trade editors were willing to publish, but readers could not follow the result. Financial editors wanted the story and could not find an angle in.
The technology was genuinely strong. The problem: there was no benchmark. Tell a customer "precision to 0.02 mm" and they cannot tell whether that is good. Tell an investor "yield up three points" and they do not know what that means in this industry.
Jargon is not the fault. What was missing was translation.
We translated the technology into an industry story — trade media first, financial media second.