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Filed at sunrise TUE · 26 MAY 2026

TUE · 26 MAY 2026

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In healthcare, the brand is the
promise. Earn the promise.

Patients, hospital boards, and health systems do not buy on the brochure — they buy on the name they already trust with the stakes. The organisation quoted on the shortage, the breakthrough, or the cost is the one the sector decides to believe.

Thirty minutes. No deck. No pitch. No charge.

Where the healthcare story gets told

Healthcare is a trust market —
and trust is earned in print.

Every healthcare organisation says the same three words: quality, access, outcomes. A patient choosing care, a system choosing a vendor, a board choosing a partner — they cannot tell you apart on the spec sheet, so they fall back on the only signal that matters with stakes this high: which name have I seen the sector trust.

The chart is read before the brochure

That trust is not bought with a paid campaign that ends with the budget. It is built when a reporter writing about the shortage, the breakthrough, or the cost of care calls you for the number — when your chief medical officer is the named source on the story the whole sector is arguing about.

The proof is in your own data right now. Outcomes for the cases everyone else avoids. Time-to-treatment in the markets no one will serve. What your clinicians say in the surveys no one publishes. Each is a story a health reporter is hunting for and cannot get from your competitors. Most organisations file it under compliance. The ones the sector trusts recognise it as the most valuable un-pitched story they own.

One sector. Four rooms.

Healthcare is not one buyer — it is providers, staffing, payers, and the technology rebuilding all three. The office finds the one true sentence for each. Whichever room you sit in, the work begins with your data and ends with your name in print.

For the provider

Health Systems & Providers.

You are fighting for patient trust and board confidence in the same year margins are thinnest. We turn your outcomes — the cases you win that others won't take — into the angle that puts your CMO on the page the sector is reading.

CEO · CMO · Marketing · Foundation

For the operator

Staffing & Services.

In a market of interchangeable firms, the one quoted on the workforce shortage is the one hospitals remember. We mine your fill and retention data for the number no competitor can claim.

Founder · VP Growth · Ops

For the builder

Payers & Health-Tech.

Your category is loud and your sales cycle is long. An earned story in the trade a CIO reads becomes the proof point in every deck after. We find the claim your usage data can defend and no rival can match.

Founder · CMO · Comms · Clinical

What an earned placement does for a desk.

18
Placements earned
In a single quarter
3
Trade-tier outlets
Becker's · Modern Healthcare · STAT
1
Un-ignorable number
Pulled from the outcomes data

The pattern repeats across the sector. We spend the first weeks finding the figure no competitor can claim — a shortage closed, an outcome that beats the benchmark, a cost story that contradicts the headline — and the rest placing it where the deciders already read. The specialty changes. The mechanism does not.

★ Illustrative of the pattern. Client specifics confidential. ★

The office holds the same two articles, whatever the industry on the masthead —

Two things. Done without compromise.

We do not run your patient marketing or write your blog. We build the conditions under which a board, a system, or a patient already trusts your name before the decision. The method fits on a single page, and it does not bend for the vertical.

★ Tenets of the office ★

The Two Articles of Earned Authority

Adopted at sunrise. Held for the healthcare desk.

Art. i

Find the angle inside your outcomes.

Buried in your data is one true sentence about the future of care that no competitor can claim and no editor can refuse. It is almost never the thing in your investor deck. We sit with your clinical and operations teams until we find it, and then we sharpen it until it cuts.

Art. ii

Place it where the sector reads.

A claim in a press release is still a press release. We do the unglamorous work — the research, the pitch, the follow-up — until the right reporter at Becker's or Modern Healthcare runs the story. Then we do it again, until your name is the answer when the sector asks who is getting it right.

— 701am, est. at sunrise

Office of Earned Media
7:01

What changes when the sector trusts your name.

We do not sell deliverables — we change your position. Here is what it is worth when the press, the board, and the patient already know who you are.

7:01
i.
The outcome

You are the name they already know.

When a board, a system, or a patient is deciding, your name is no longer one of four on a list — it is the one they have already seen the sector trust. The decision starts in your favour.

  • Recognised before the first meeting
  • Trusted where it counts most
  • Chosen when the stakes are highest
ii.
The outcome

The deals come to you.

When your CMO is the named source on the shortage or the breakthrough, the buyers you were chasing start the conversation themselves. Earned authority turns outbound into inbound.

  • Inbound from buyers you pursued
  • Shorter, warmer sales cycles
  • A pipeline that compounds
iii.
The outcome

Authority that outlasts the campaign.

A placement is not a moment — it is an asset. The story the sector cites about you keeps working in every deck, every board meeting, every recruiting call, long after the work is done.

  • Proof that never expires
  • Credibility in every room
  • A position competitors can't buy

Why founders choose 701am.

There is no shortage of agencies that promise coverage. There are very few that will sit with you, find the one true thing, and stake their name on placing it.

Founder-led

You work with David.

Not an account manager, not an intern on a template. David sits with you himself, finds the angle, and runs the pitch — the same operator who has built and grown businesses, not just talked about them.

One hour. One desk. One person accountable.

An operator's eye

We read what others miss.

The angle no competitor can copy is almost never in your deck. It is in the operations and outcomes data most agencies never think to read — and finding it is the whole game.

The story hiding in your own numbers.

Nothing invented

Only what is true.

We never fabricate a number, a quote, or a claim. Earned authority that cannot survive a fact-check is not authority — it is a liability. Everything we place is real, and that is exactly why it lands.

No invented stats. Ever.

A note from the office

There are a thousand organisations promising better care. There are perhaps a handful who can get a reporter to call them first when the sector's biggest question is being written. We are built for the second problem. If that is the one keeping you up, the sunrise call is free.

— David at 7:01

What people say about David.

David is a key piece to company growth. His SEO insights are next level. He is always on top of the new trends that impact website performance and takes initiative. But above that, David is a great leader and great person to work with!
Alison Tobin Insurance Editor
I have never learned so much from someone I worked with. He was always an inspiration to me. He's the hardest worker I have ever met. No idea how he finds the time to accomplish all he does in a day. Couldn't have more respect for him.
Sara Routhier Senior Director of Content at Quote.com
David's expertise in SEO is incredible. He has the ability to jump between SEO strategies and tactics to drive substantial growth while managing and leading high performance teams. He's an impactful (and essential) person to have on your growth team!
Meredith Kokos AI-Driven SVP of Growth | Scaling PE & VC-Backed B2C/DTC & B2B Companies

★ Recommendations from people who have worked with David. Words unchanged. ★

★ The work begins at 7:01 ★

Ready to be the name the sector trusts?

Thirty minutes. We listen, find the angle hiding in your outcomes data, and tell you straight whether we can make your organisation impossible for the sector to ignore.