LedeTime provides an AI‑driven platform for public relations professionals to quickly discover relevant journalists, generate tailored media outreach lists, and craft personalized pitches. Users can also simulate interviews with journalists to gain insights into their interests and past coverage, enabling more precise and efficient media outreach.
Funding
Funding not disclosed
Founders
Product
Problem
Public relations teams often spend extensive time manually searching for appropriate journalists, tailoring pitches, and managing outreach, which slows campaign execution and reduces the likelihood of securing media coverage.
Solution
LedeTime offers an AI-driven platform that automates the core PR workflow. The system quickly generates media lists from a database of over 50,000 journalists using natural‑language processing and real‑time news analysis. An interactive AI simulation reproduces journalist interviews, revealing each reporter’s interests and past coverage to help users assess fit. The platform then crafts personalized pitches aligned with those interests and enables bulk distribution to the selected journalists, streamlining outreach and accelerating the path to media placement.
Target Audience
Primary customers are PR agencies, corporate communications teams, and in‑house public relations professionals who need to scale media outreach while maintaining relevance and personalization.
Features
- AI-powered journalist discovery that builds high‑quality media lists in seconds from a curated database of 50,000+ reporters
- Simulated journalist interviews that surface individual interests, recent stories, and relevance to the user’s content
- Automated pitch generation that matches story angles to journalist preferences and produces ready‑to‑send copy
- Bulk pitch dispatch to targeted journalists with built‑in tracking of outreach status
- Real‑time news analysis to keep media lists and pitch recommendations up to date