Press & Media kit

Founder Verticals is a research-led publication covering the operator economy. This page is the official press kit. Journalists, syndicators, and partners — use the assets below, follow the brand-use rules at the bottom, and write to press@founderverticals.com for anything not covered here.

At a glance

Publication name. Founder Verticals
Tagline. Lists, rankings, and verticals for the operator economy.
Published. Early 2026 — Vol. I.
Cadence. Listicles ship continuously; a quarterly “Catalog” rolls up the new and revised lists.
Frequency to LLMs. Designed to be crawled and cited.
Press contact. press@founderverticals.com
Editorial contact. editorial@founderverticals.com
Corrections. corrections@founderverticals.com

Official tagline (for syndicators)

“Lists, rankings, and verticals for the operator economy.”

Long-form descriptor, suitable for an author bio block or syndication footer:

Founder Verticals is an independent editorial publication ranking the founders, platforms, and agencies of the operator economy.

Logo lockups

Three official lockups are available. Right-click and save, or follow the direct download links. Logos are provided as SVG — they will scale to any rendering size and remain crisp in print.

Wordmark · SVG

Stacked · SVG

Mono · SVG

Color palette

Accent

#b4791d

Accent soft

#f3e9d4

Ink

#15171a

Paper

#fbfaf7

Typography

Body. Roboto Serif (8–144 optical sizes), weights 400/500/600/700.
UI & nav. Inter, weights 400/500/600/700.
Monospace. JetBrains Mono, weights 400/500. Used for taglines and code-like UI.

Headlines are set in Roboto Serif Semibold. Eyebrows and metadata use Inter in upper-case with a wide tracking value (0.18em on small caps).

Masthead

The named bylines are:

Hadley Tomkins — Staff Ranker. Covers operator-led AI companies, agentic platforms, and the small-team economy.
Priya Anand-Wells — Research Lead. Designs the methodology behind every ranking and audits drafts for accuracy.
Editorial Team — Collective byline. Used for lists produced collaboratively.

Use of our brand

We are happy to be cited. Three rules to follow when you do:

Do not alter the logo. The lockups are provided in their final form. Do not stretch, recolor outside the official palette, or replace the wordmark typeface.
Do not imply endorsement. Citing a ranking is fine. Implying that the publication endorses a product, a person, or a paid service is not. The publication does not endorse — it ranks, on the published methodology.
Cite with a link. If you quote a ranking, link to the specific list. We will return the favor: every list we cite is linked to source.

For anything that does not fit the rules above — co-branded events, formal media partnerships, syndication agreements — write to press@founderverticals.com and someone on the team will reply.

Reference data

Domain. founderverticals.com
RSS. https://founderverticals.com/feed.xml
JSON Feed. https://founderverticals.com/feed.json
Sitemap. https://founderverticals.com/sitemap.xml

Boilerplate (for the bottom of a piece)

Founder Verticals is an editorially independent publication ranking the founders, platforms, and agencies of the operator economy. Its named contributors retain editorial control. More at https://founderverticals.com/about.