Risefoundation Freelance Services

Flexible expertise to help your ideas rise.

About Rise Foundation
Smart, simple deliverables-done on time.

The Arsenal

Discoverability Gap Audit

Most authors do not know exactly where their book disappears and why. This service looks at your book across Amazon, Goodreads, and search, then delivers a short, specific list of what is working against your visibility and what to fix first. No general advice. Just the real gap and the real answer.

Amazon Category and Keyword Repositioning

Before you spend a single dollar on ads, your book needs to be sitting in the right categories with the right keywords attached to it. Most books are not. This service goes into the metadata layer of your Amazon listing and corrects what is quietly suppressing your organic reach every single day.

Goodreads Listopia Placement and List Strategy

Goodreads has over 180 million readers, and the Listopia section is where highly specific reader lists live that feed directly into Amazon's ecosystem and AI recommendation systems. Authors cannot place their own books on these lists. This service handles the research, identifies the right niche lists for your title, coordinates legitimate placement through real readers, and builds an original list that puts your book beside comparable well-known titles.

Goodreads Profile and Title Record Correction

A messy or incomplete Goodreads record quietly tells readers to move on. Duplicate entries, missing details, wrong covers, and unlinked editions all suppress discovery. This service audits your live title page, corrects what is accessible, and flags exactly what needs your direct attention on the platform.

Cold Outreach Campaign to Targeted Reader Communities

There are already communities of readers online who would love your book. They just have not heard of it. This service identifies where those readers gather, whether in newsletters, forums, niche groups, or online communities, then runs a structured outreach campaign to put your title directly in front of them without paid ads.

Author Platform Consistency Audit

If a reader finds your book on Amazon and then goes looking for you on Goodreads or your website and gets a different story, they leave. This service checks every public profile you have, finds where your messaging conflicts or goes silent, and gives you a clear correction list so every entry point tells the same confident story.

Testimonials

Author of between these walls

Michael Newman

Risefoundation quickly understood my goals and delivered polished copy that matched my brand perfectly. Communication was clear and deadlines were met without stress.

     
author of uncertain lives

Joram Piatigorshy

This is all very helpful and makes sense. I would spend a lot of time and not achieve as good a result attracting readers as you would.

     
Independent consultant

Patricia K.

The messaging work made a huge difference-my website finally sounds like me, and inquiries increased within weeks. Highly professional and easy to work with.

     
 
 

How It Works When You Work With Us

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Team

Emily Brown

Founder & CEO — Rise Foundation

Emily built Rise Foundation around one truth: great books and great stores fail not because the work is poor but because nobody positioned them correctly. She leads a team of visibility strategists who research first, assume nothing, and deliver results a client can actually see. Every service on this platform exists because Emily found a real gap and built a precise solution around it.

Mary Martin

Visibility Strategist

A core member of the Rise Foundation team, trained in platform research, discoverability strategy, and targeted outreach. Every strategist on this team understands the full scope of our work and is equipped to handle your project from research through delivery with the same standard of precision and care

Allison Mccal

Visibility Strategist

A core member of the Rise Foundation team, trained in platform research, discoverability strategy, and targeted outreach. Every strategist on this team understands the full scope of our work and is equipped to handle your project from research through delivery with the same standard of precision and care

Danielle Brown

Visibility Strategist

A core member of the Rise Foundation team, trained in platform research, discoverability strategy, and targeted outreach. Every strategist on this team understands the full scope of our work and is equipped to handle your project from research through delivery with the same standard of precision and care

Team

Lauren Mitchell

Visibility Strategist

A core member of the Rise Foundation team, trained in platform research, discoverability strategy, and targeted outreach. Every strategist on this team understands the full scope of our work and is equipped to handle your project from research through delivery with the same standard of precision and care

Ella Madsen

Visibility Strategist

A core member of the Rise Foundation team, trained in platform research, discoverability strategy, and targeted outreach. Every strategist on this team understands the full scope of our work and is equipped to handle your project from research through delivery with the same standard of precision and care

Elena Katz

Visibility Strategist

A core member of the Rise Foundation team, trained in platform research, discoverability strategy, and targeted outreach. Every strategist on this team understands the full scope of our work and is equipped to handle your project from research through delivery with the same standard of precision and care

Gabriella John

Visibility Strategist

A core member of the Rise Foundation team, trained in platform research, discoverability strategy, and targeted outreach. Every strategist on this team understands the full scope of our work and is equipped to handle your project from research through delivery with the same standard of precision and care

Book A Strategy Call

Caroline Miller

Senior Visibility Strategist — Available for Strategy Calls

Caroline is the first person you speak to when you are ready to understand exactly where your book or store stands and what it would take to change that. She brings a clear, structured approach to every conversation, asks the right questions, and makes sure you leave with a precise understanding of what Rise Foundation can do for your specific situation. If you have been sitting on the fence about where to start, a conversation with Caroline is where that clarity begins.

Bayonle

Senior Visibility Strategist — Available for Strategy Calls

Bayonle handles project alignment and ongoing client conversations throughout the Rise Foundation process. Detail oriented, direct, and genuinely invested in the outcome of every project he is part of, Bayonle makes sure nothing falls through the gaps between the brief and the final delivery. If you have questions mid-project or want to talk through your options before committing, Bayonle is who you want on the other end of that call.

Customers

Percentage

96%

Average Client Review

81%

Returning Customers

76%

Projects Capacity

F.A.Q

If the deliverable does not match what was agreed at the start of the project, it gets corrected. Rise Foundation does not disappear after delivery. The goal of every project is a client who understands exactly what was done, why it was done, and what to do next. If something is unclear or not what was expected based on the agreed scope, that conversation is always welcome and always handled directly.
No. Anyone who guarantees specific sales numbers or bestseller status before doing the work is not being honest with you. What Rise Foundation guarantees is verified research, accurate platform corrections, and outreach built on real data rather than guesswork. The work is designed to put your book in front of the right readers through the right channels. What those readers do once they find it depends on the book itself, which is the part you already handled.
The work speaks through the clients who came back. Several of the authors and store owners in our review section returned for multiple projects, not because they felt obligated to but because the first project delivered something they could see and measure. Beyond that, every service we offer is built around a specific, verifiable outcome: a corrected listing, a confirmed Listopia placement, a completed outreach sequence. You always know exactly what you are getting before the work begins.
It depends on the service. A Discoverability Gap Audit or Amazon Category Repositioning produces a deliverable within days and the platform changes take effect immediately once applied. An outreach campaign to targeted reader communities runs over weeks and builds momentum progressively. A Goodreads Listopia placement is a longer play that compounds over time as votes accumulate and the list gains traffic. Every timeline is communicated clearly at the start so you know what to expect and when.
Yes. The research process before any outreach or audit begins always includes understanding the book's genre, its reader community, its comparable titles, and how it currently sits across every relevant platform. Rise Foundation has worked across fiction, nonfiction, memoir, military history, literary fiction, chronic illness narratives, and indie titles across multiple subgenres. The strategy is always built around your specific book, not a one-size approach borrowed from a different genre entirely.

You can start with a single service. In fact the Discoverability Gap Audit exists specifically as a starting point because it shows you exactly where the problems are before you commit to anything else. Many clients begin there and then decide which additional services make the most sense based on what the audit reveals. There is no pressure to buy everything at once and no package required to get started.
Every service produces a concrete deliverable. Audits produce a written report with specific corrections and priority actions. Outreach campaigns produce a researched sequence of contacts with a clear timeline. Platform corrections produce documented changes to your live listings. You are never left with a vague strategy deck and a bill. Before any project begins you will know exactly what is being delivered, in what format, and by when.
Neither of those things disqualify a book from gaining visibility. Backlist titles are actually one of the strongest use cases for this work because the platform errors that have been suppressing them for months or years are often simple to correct once someone looks closely. Niche books benefit most from the targeted approach Rise Foundation uses because the goal is never to reach everyone. It is to reach the specific readers who are already looking for exactly what your book offers.
Rise Foundation operates as a remote team. Every project is handled by people who work closely together, understand the work deeply, and know exactly what each service requires to be done correctly. Communication with you stays clear and direct throughout. You receive updates as the work progresses, a full delivery with documentation of everything completed, and a clear picture of what comes next. You are never passed around or left waiting without knowing where things stand.
Most book marketing fails because it is built on assumptions rather than research. Campaigns go out to the wrong audience, Amazon listings sit in the wrong categories, and Goodreads records are incomplete before a single reader ever arrives. Rise Foundation starts by confirming exactly where your book is invisible and why, using live platform data, before recommending anything. Nothing is recommended that has not been verified against your specific title and its current public presence.
A publicist focuses on media coverage and press placements. A marketing agency typically runs paid ad campaigns. Rise Foundation does neither of those as its primary service. The focus here is platform positioning, discoverability, and targeted outreach built entirely on verified research. That means no paid placements, no PR retainers, and no ad spend required from you. The work is strategic and specific rather than broad and expensive.
Rise Foundation is a real consulting practice run by a real person. Every audit, every outreach campaign, every platform correction, and every strategy document is researched and written by hand based on live verified data pulled during that specific session. No automated tools generate your deliverables. You work directly with someone who has studied your book, checked your actual platform presence, and built a strategy around what is genuinely missing, not what a template assumes.

Contact

  • Manhattan, New York, NY, United States