Inside My Two-Week Substack Intensive (What a Substack Consultant Actually Does)

This week I’m wrapping up with my most recent client for the Two-Week Substack Intensive, which is always a strange little goodbye. For two weeks straight I’ve been living inside someone else’s newsletter (their copy, their settings, their welcome email, their paywall), and now I hand back the keys and wave from the driveway.

If you haven’t heard me talk about it before: the Two-Week Substack Intensive is my sprint-style consulting offer where I’m your on-call Substack consultant for two weeks straight — strategy, coaching, execution, and deliverables, all customized to your goals. It’s the most hands-on way to work with me, and I only take one client a month.

I created it because after growing Make Writing Your Job to 42,000+ subscribers over three years (and $267,537 in gross annualized revenue, no paid ads), I kept meeting the same two kinds of writers. So let’s talk about both, because one of them should not buy this offer.

The Two Types of Substack Writers I Keep Meeting

The first type just needs the information. They can hold themselves accountable, they stay motivated with some community input, and given a good map they will happily drive the car themselves. Handing this person a premium done-with-you sprint would be like hiring a private chef to make toast.

The second type wants me in the passenger seat. Sometimes they want me driving for two weeks while they learn the route. It’s usually not about capability at all — their time is worth more than their learning curve, and they’d rather buy the shortcut.

I built an offering for each of them.

For the Self-Starters: Become a Founding Member of Sutoscience

If you’re the first type, a founding membership of Sutoscience ($550/year) is the move. Here’s what’s inside:

• The monthly Substack Lab — a mastermind that works like a writers’ group for Substack writers. Genuinely great writers show up every month to workshop their newsletters, get advice from the group, and keep each other moving.
• The Six-Week Substack Sprint and my other classes across both of my Substacks.
• All of my paid articles and Substack Live sessions.
• Founding-member-only replays of my live classes — including my upcoming one on how to write your romantasy novel using TV storytelling structure. (I’m! So! Excited! about this one.)

It’s the teach-yourself path, with backup. If you mostly need the playbook plus a room of people who get it, this is honestly all you need — and I would much rather you join the Lab than book an Intensive you didn’t need.

For Everyone Else: The Two-Week Substack Intensive

The Intensive is different. For two weeks, you get my full 40-hour work weeks pointed at your Substack: regular meetings, on-call access to me in between, and a sprint plan customized to what you’re trying to do — whether that’s building a revenue engine, lining your newsletter up with a book launch or coaching offer, or a goal that’s entirely personal.

And this is the part I want to be clear about, because it’s what makes the Intensive worth its price tag: it’s not just accountability and advice. It’s execution. I go through all of your copy. I go through every single setting and optimize it with you. I’ve set up Substacks completely from scratch, and I’ve taken existing ones through rebrands and upgrades that made them feel like new publications. I ~ love ~ this part.

What You Walk Away With

• A Substack that’s done-done: positioning, copy, welcome flow, paywall, and every setting audited and optimized — or built from zero.
• Content you can ship: sometimes I ghostwrite it, sometimes I edit yours, and we always map your content pillars and build a content calendar so the momentum survives after I leave.
• An AI marketing engine: I install systems that repurpose your long-form posts into short-form content for Threads, LinkedIn, X, and Bluesky, so the marketing side of your Substack runs without eating your writing time. (I’m transparent about using AI tools in my own business; this is the part clients ask me to clone the most.)
• Coaching on the goal itself — the strategy underneath the deliverables, so you understand why everything is set up the way it is.

Advice expires. Deliverables compound. That’s the whole philosophy of the sprint: two weeks from now you should be holding finished things, not a longer to-do list.

Who Books This (and Who Shouldn’t)

I’ve run Intensives for high-powered CEOs and for individual artists, authors, and creators, and I love working with that whole range on Substack. What they have in common isn’t a job title — it’s a season. They’re launching something, rebranding something, or done watching their newsletter sit at 80% built.

Because you get me on-call for two weeks, I only take on one Intensive client per month, and it’s priced accordingly: premium, quoted after we talk. If that’s not your season, the founding membership gets you the same playbook at self-serve pace, and my free growth guide and full-time Substack writer breakdown cost you nothing at all. No hard feelings, truly — I’d rather you buy the right thing.

Substack Intensive FAQ

What does a Substack consultant actually do?

A Substack consultant helps you with the strategy, setup, and growth of your newsletter. In my case that means auditing your copy and every setting, positioning, monetization strategy, content planning, and (in the Intensive) hands-on execution: ghostwriting, editing, rebrands, and marketing systems. My Substack consulting page has the full picture.

How much does the Two-Week Substack Intensive cost?

Pricing is premium and depends on scope, so I quote it after a call. I take one client per month, which keeps the on-call promise real. Fill out the form below and I’ll send current pricing and availability.

Can you set up my Substack completely from scratch?

Yes — I do this often. I also take existing Substacks through rebrands and upgrades, which is a surprisingly satisfying before-and-after to watch from the inside.

Is two weeks actually enough?

Yes, because the sprint is built to outlast itself. You leave with content pillars, a content calendar, finished copy, and a repurposing engine — the systems keep working after I’m gone. That’s the difference between a sprint and a retainer that never ends.

Want In? Here’s the Next Step

If you’re curious about the Two-Week Substack Intensive (or want to hear more about Sutoscience), fill out the form below — it lands straight in my inbox, and I’ll send you more information, current pricing, and my availability for my next client. You can also read more about my Substack consulting first.

Or skip the call entirely and become a founding member of Sutoscience today — the Lab meets monthly, and we’d love to have you.