The Long Read
A 1,500 to 4,000 word narrative biography written by a human editor after live interviews — origin, turning points, failures, doctrine. Structured with the semantic markup search engines actually parse.
The permanent record of modern enterprise
Every founder Few are read.
Search a company and you will find a logo, a funding round and a phone number. Search the person who built it and you will find almost nothing at all. 99Founder writes the missing chapter — a commissioned, permanently maintained biography of the founder and the business, engineered to rank.
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The gap
A company
without a story
is just a listing.
The internet is generous to consumer brands and merciless to everyone else. A directory entry. A registry filing. A LinkedIn page nobody scrolls. For most serious operators, the first page of search results is a stranger’s summary of a life’s work.
We fix that with the oldest tool available: a properly written, properly sourced, properly structured piece of long-form journalism — and the technical discipline to make search engines treat it as the authority.
Our method →linkedin.com › in › profile
A. Okonkwo — LinkedIn
Managing Director at Meridian Hydro. Lagos, Nigeria. 500+ connections.
registry.gov › filings › 2019
Company filing — annual return
Registered office address. Directors. Filing history for the year ended…
crunchbase.com › organization
Meridian Hydro — Company Profile
Meridian Hydro is a company. Founded 2011. Headquarters…
99founder.com › founders › amara-okonkwo
Amara Okonkwo: The Engineer Who Rewired a Delta
The definitive biography — from a borrowed generator in Port Harcourt to 340 megawatts of run-of-river hydro across three states. 2,800 words, fully sourced.
Illustrative example. Names and figures are fictional.
What arrives
Not a blog post.
A record.
Entity Architecture
Schema.org Person and Organization objects, consistent name-and-title citations, and internal linking that teaches the index who you are and what you are known for.
A Ranking Home
Published on 99founder.com — a domain built for one purpose, so the authority compounds across every profile we host rather than being scattered across the web.
A Living File
New raise, new plant, new appointment, new award — your editor updates the record within days. A biography that stops in 2023 is worse than none at all.
The commission
Five steps.
Roughly three weeks.
Every profile follows the same editorial path. You speak; we research, verify, write and publish; then we maintain it for as long as you hold the edition.
Discovery call
Sixty minutes with your assigned editor. We map the arc — where you started, what nearly ended it, what you actually believe about the business. We also agree what stays off the record.
Research & verification
Filings, press archives, patent records, court records, prior interviews. Anything we publish as fact is sourced. Anything we cannot source is written as attribution or dropped.
Keyword architecture
We map the queries that already carry your name and the ones that should. Headings, entity mentions and internal links are planned before a single paragraph is drafted.
Draft & two revisions
You read the full draft before anyone else does. Two rounds of revisions are included on every edition. Factual corrections are unlimited, always.
Publication & indexing
Published, submitted, structured-data validated, and monitored for ninety days. You receive a quarterly position report showing exactly where the record sits for your priority queries.
Editions
Three ways to be
remembered.
Every edition is a commissioned profile plus continuous maintenance, monitoring and revision. Pay month to month, or settle the year in one payment and save.
Most commissioned
Legacy
The founder & the company
₹9,999/ year
You receive
Both biographies — the businessman and the business — cross-linked as one entity.
- Everything in Personal + Business
- 5,000+ words across two records
- Cross-linked entity graph (founder ↔ firm)
- Knowledge-panel groundwork
- Unlimited factual updates
- Priority editor & 12h response
Business
The company
₹6,999/ year
You receive
One biography of the business — origin, model, milestones, market.
- 2,500+ word company biography
- Two interviews & one video profile
- Organization schema & entity setup
- Milestone timeline module
- Products, leadership & market sections
- Licence to republish on your own site
Personal
The founder
₹4,999/ year
You receive
One biography of the businessman — the person, the path, the philosophy.
- 1,500+ word founder biography
- One interview & one video profile
- Person schema & entity setup
- Two revision rounds
- Quarterly refresh & rank report
- Permanent archive listing
All editions include hosting, maintenance and takedown-on-request. No setup fee. Cancel a monthly edition any time; the published record stays live to the end of the paid term.
Talk to an editor →Compare editions
Included
Legacy
Business
Personal
Founder biography
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Included
Company biography
Included
Included
Not included—
Minimum length, in words
5,000
2,500
1,500
Video profiles
2
1
1
Cross-linked entity graph
Included
Not included—
Not included—
Editor response time
12h
24h
48h
From the archive
Recently filed.
A commissioned profile reads like a magazine feature and behaves like a landing page. Here is one we wrote about ourselves.
99Founder: The Company That Sells Founders Back Their Own Story
How a single observation — that the internet indexes companies but forgets the people who built them — became a publishing house for commissioned biography.
Read the profile →
The Founders
Biographies of the people behind the companies — the decisions, the near-misses and the doctrine that outlasts them.
Browse founders →
The Businesses
Company histories written as narrative — how the model was found, how it was financed, and what it actually does today.
Browse businesses →Editorial standards
Paid, but not purchased.
A biography is only worth commissioning if a reader believes it. These four rules are what make ours credible — and they are not negotiable, at any price.
Sourced or attributed
Every figure is traceable to a filing, a document or a named person. Where a claim rests only on your word, the text says so plainly.
Disclosed as commissioned
Each profile carries a visible commissioning notice. Concealed advertorial is the fastest way to lose a reader — and a ranking.
No invented praise
We do not manufacture awards, testimonials or superlatives. The story is made compelling by structure and detail, not adjectives.
Yours to withdraw
Ask, and the record comes down within one working day — no exit fee, no argument. Your life is not our asset.
Questions
Before you commission.
Does a paid biography actually rank?
It ranks the way any good page ranks: original long-form content, clean technical structure, a focused domain and time. What we control absolutely is quality, structure and maintenance. What nobody controls is the algorithm — so we report positions honestly every quarter and never sell a guaranteed number-one placement.
What is the difference between Personal, Business and Legacy?
Personal is one biography of the businessman. Business is one biography of the company. Legacy is both, written together and cross-linked so search engines connect the person to the firm as a single entity — which is what produces the strongest visibility.
Why is this a subscription and not a one-off fee?
Because a static article decays. Your subscription pays for hosting, ongoing optimisation, factual updates, competitor monitoring and quarterly reporting. A profile written once and abandoned loses ground within a year — the maintenance is the product.
How much do I save by paying yearly?
Roughly two months. Every edition is priced so that a year costs about ten months of the monthly rate. Personal is ₹499 a month or ₹4,999 for the year — a saving of ₹989. Business is ₹699 a month or ₹6,999 a year, saving ₹1,389. Legacy is ₹999 a month or ₹9,999 a year, saving ₹1,989. Yearly editions are billed once, up front. Switch the toggle above for US dollar pricing.
Do I approve the article before it is published?
Always. Nothing goes live without your written sign-off, and two revision rounds are included. Factual corrections after publication are unlimited and free, permanently.
Who owns the article?
You hold a perpetual licence to reproduce it anywhere — press kits, investor decks, your own site. We retain the right to host the canonical version on 99founder.com, which is what carries the search authority.
Commissions open
You built something.
Let it be found.
Tell us the name, the company and the queries that matter. We will tell you honestly whether a commissioned record is worth your money — and what it would take.