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.

2 landings by Claudine Mercer.

• Business narrative writing
• Pitch deck tools reviews

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  Press Release AI: What A Real Copy Desk Would Change

  August 16, 2026

  Press release AI tools draft fast. They also invent quotes and bury the news in paragraph three. Here is what a copy desk fixes before you file it.

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  Is NovelAI Free? What Founders Pitching VCs Use Instead

  July 3, 2026

  NovelAI writes fiction and roleplay. It does not write your Series A deck. Here is what NovelAI free actually gets you, and where founders go instead.