For Chambers of Commerce
Member launches, finally getting the airtime they pay for.
Press Pilot collects member news, helps you draft it in your house voice, and pitches it to regional and trade press, so members see exactly why their fee was worth it this year.
The chamber shape
Hundreds of members. One comms lead. A renewal cycle that never sleeps.
Press Pilot is the system underneath the chamber: a single intake for member news, a journalist desk that respects regional and trade patches, and a per-member coverage record ready for the renewal call.
Member intake portal
Branded to the chamber. Members submit launches, hires, expansions, awards and events through one form.
Templated pitches
Pre-built sequences for new hires, expansions, awards, openings and policy positions. Personalise in minutes, not days.
Per-member coverage
Every clipping credited to the member who triggered it. The renewal conversation prepares itself.
Sector and region routing
Stories matched to the right journalist patch - manufacturing trade, regional daily, consumer lifestyle, or policy press.
Fee-band logic
Premium members get priority pitching queues and longer-lead support. The CRM knows, the team doesn't have to.
Board-ready packs
Quarterly chamber report, regulator submissions and AGM packs in three clicks.
A typical month
From member submission to renewal evidence.
- Wk 1Member submissions land through the portal. Drafts back to members for sign-off the same week.
- Wk 2Pitches go out, matched to the right regional and trade patches. Journalists reply, not the bin.
- Wk 3Coverage lands. Each clipping credited to the originating member in their dashboard.
- Wk 4Board pack and member updates produced from the same source of truth. No spreadsheet weekend.
The chamber reality
The fee renews on coverage members can see, not the events they didn't make.
Chambers of commerce sit on a goldmine of member news - hires, openings, expansions, awards, export wins, apprenticeships, policy positions - and almost never have the capacity to do justice to it. One or two comms staff are expected to be the regional newsroom, the member-services helpdesk and the events team's right hand, all before lunch.
Press Pilot exists to make the chamber feel ten times bigger than it is. Members submit news through a branded portal, the AI drafts in the chamber's voice, your team approves and pitches, the right regional and trade press get the right stories, and every clipping is credited to the member who triggered it. When renewal letters go out, members can see exactly what their fee delivered.
"We stopped chasing member news. The portal does it. We started chasing the coverage."
A day in the life
A Wednesday with Priya, Communications Manager at a regional chamber.
Priya is the only full-time comms hire at a 700-member chamber. Wednesday is her pitching day.
08.30
Skim the overnight intake. Six member submissions - a manufacturer's £4m investment, two new hires at a law firm, a brewery's export win, a charity partnership, a tech start-up's seed round. Drafts are already in the chamber's voice.
09.45
Light edits, then route. Manufacturing story to the trade press and the regional business desk. Brewery to drinks trade and lifestyle. Tech to the regional digital titles. Each pitch sequenced with the right embargo.
11.15
A premium member calls - they've just landed a big customer they can't yet name. Priya tees up a holding draft and an embargo plan inside Press Pilot, ready for when the announcement clears legal.
12.30
Lunch read of the renewals dashboard. Three of next month's renewals have had zero coverage this year. Priya flags them, asks the membership team for a story-mining call.
14.00
Coverage from yesterday's pitches is landing. Regional daily picked up the investment story, drinks trade ran the brewery piece. Both auto-credit to the member dashboards.
15.30
Drafts the chair's weekly note to members. Press Pilot has already pulled the top five member coverage wins for the week. Priya writes two paragraphs around it.
16.45
Quarterly board pack - half-done by the system. Priya adds a narrative top and bottom, exports the PDF, sends to the chief exec. Then leaves for a member event with the team.
What Priya sees
A renewals-friendly view of member coverage.
Dashboard
A quiet summary of this month's comms activity.
↑ 6 this month
↑ vs 41% avg
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Three member submissions point to the same labour-market story.
Bundle them into one multi-voice release? Estimated opens: 38 journalists across business and regional desks.
Give your members a reason to renew, in coverage.
A 30-minute demo, tailored to your organisation. No slideware. We'll use your real partner list and show you what week one would actually look like.
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