Claudine Mercer

Senior copy editor based in London, now consulting for founders and growth-stage startups on investor-facing communications. Spent 9 years on the Reuters UK news desk and 4 years as a features editor at the Financial Times weekend section. Edits pitch decks the way she edits feature leads — cut the passive voice, kill the bullet, find the lede.

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• Jasper AI Alternatives: 4 Marketing-Copy Tools, Tested

  September 20, 2026

  Jasper AI trained your brand voice, then asked for a 12-month contract. We tested four Jasper AI alternatives on price, output quality, and whether they can write a lede a VC would actually read.