Date: 2026-09-30 5:00 PM EDT Attendees: Michael Houck (Rye Valley), Blake Stewart (Megaphone/Founding Journey), Haz Hubble (Pally, haz@pally.com) Granola (Michael’s capture): https://notes.granola.ai/d/1e98389a-a1dc-4bba-aa2b-3c8ec9e818e2 See also (Blake’s capture): https://notes.granola.ai/d/36becf10-b431-45f4-904b-47c4f057b36e
Summary
Discovery and pitch call with Haz Hubble, founder of Pally (pally.com), a prospect for Megaphone and Jolt services. Haz knows Jacob and Brett from Launch House; has 16K LinkedIn followers and ~7K on X. Content to date has been accidental/haphazard. He hit PMF in June after pivoting Pally to an iMessage agent with 70% month-2 retention. Now in full scale mode. Has investor options in play (“expect something big maybe soon”). Keen on Megaphone and Jolt; has an existing AEO/GEO agency handling Reddit for Pally so Lore is low priority unless scoped to personal brand only.
Big upcoming campaign: Pally signed Donna from Suits (the character’s actress), filming ~Oct 30, launch expected mid-November. Haz wants creator network amplification support for that launch.
Services Discussed and Pricing
- Megaphone (LinkedIn + X + newsletter): $5K/mo, 3-month minimum
- Jolt (TikTok, IG, YouTube Shorts): $6K/mo, 3-month minimum
- Lore (AEO/GEO/SEO): $4K first month, then ~$2,500/mo base
- Multi-service discount: up to 10%; additional 5% if annual after initial 3 months
- Campaign/creator amplification priced separately on-demand
Decisions
- No formal decisions made; this was a discovery/pitch call. Proposal to follow Oct 1.
Action Items
- Michael: send Haz strategy summary doc by Oct 1 (Megaphone + Jolt approach, creator network budget/promotion strategy, separate campaign pricing breakdown, full Lore/Reddit breakdown for reference)
- Michael: stay in touch as Oct 30 filming date finalizes; plan creator amplification for mid-November Donna from Suits launch (3 days notice needed to activate)
Notable Excerpts
Haz: “I’ve been kind of done that accidentally, I would say. I don’t think I’ve ever really like consciously thought about online content too much. …I guess the question I’m interested to explore is if I was a lot more intentional around this on both platforms like what could it be?”
Haz: “We have options, let’s just say that right now. So we’re working out what’s next, but um, expect something big maybe soon, one way or another.”
Haz: “We have between us, again, like confidentially right now, we’ve just signed - do you know Donna from Suits? …So she’s about to be - we’re going to do like a big campaign with her, we’re filming sometime in October, maybe at the end of October, like the 30th. So I’m expecting that to come out like mid-November and we’re going to put like real budget behind this.”
Michael: “No, it’s way less than you think. We handle literally everything except you sitting in front of your phone for like an hour a week reading scripts that we write. That’s it.”
Michael: “We have basically the world’s best Reddit team for marketing. …We have over 500 US-based accounts that have years and years of karma buildup, minimum 1,000 karma, and true relevance in various sub-niches.”