About
Senior expertise. Digital and social depth. Real-world delivery.
Faur is a strategic communications consultancy based in Edinburgh, working across the UK and internationally. We help organisations clarify what they stand for, earn stakeholder trust, and deliver communications that perform across digital and social channels. Our work runs from boardroom-level counsel to campaigns built for national scale. If you need clear strategy, senior delivery, and a team that has done this at the highest level, that is our lane.
What we help with
Communications teams and their leaders are working under more pressure than ever: more channels, faster news cycles, tighter governance, and stakeholders who scrutinise everything.
Most teams are balancing some mix of: growing demand for content and responsiveness; approvals and governance constraints; reputational risk and stakeholder complexity; and the need to keep pace with how digital and social platforms keep changing.
Faur helps you move from intent to execution, combining senior communications leadership with hands-on capability across strategy, executive presence, social, and digital campaigns.
What we've delivered
- Communications strategies that leadership teams can stand behind, with messaging, audiences, channels, governance and measures of success
- Digital and communications audits with practical roadmaps: what to fix, what to stop, what to build next
- Executive communications and digital presence for senior leaders, including LinkedIn and thought-leadership programmes
- Social and editorial strategy for global brands, governing bodies and major projects
- Executive and interim leadership in complex environments, including turnarounds and service recovery
- Crisis readiness: frameworks, escalation routes, and governance that holds under pressure
- AI advisory: clear counsel on where AI improves communications work, and where it does not
How we work
Senior judgement and accountability stay with us throughout. Where AI improves the speed or quality of a piece of work, we use it; where it does not, we say so.
Our founder
Faur was founded by Michael MacLennan, a strategic communications leader with two decades of senior experience across brand, corporate and digital communications.
Michael's leadership experience includes work with Red Bull, Brunswick, Barclaycard, BBC, ITN, STV and The Herald. He founded the award-winning charity Covid Aid, which supported more than 385,000 people and raised over £250,000, and has since held interim executive roles, including interim chief executive of a national cancer charity. He serves on the board of ScotlandIS.
Michael founded Comms With AI, a separate brand developing practical AI tools for communications professionals, and in October 2025 completed Imperial College London's Machine Learning and Artificial Intelligence certificate with top-quartile performance. That work keeps Faur fluent in where AI improves communications, and honest about where it does not.
At the 2026 AI Comms Awards, Comms With AI won Gold for Best Innovation in AI Tools for Communications, and Michael was named AI Communications Leader of the Year.
You can find Michael on LinkedIn.
Our network
Faur is led by Michael MacLennan, and engagements scale through a trusted network of senior specialists across content strategy, design, public affairs, SEO, multimedia and web development, brought in by capability when the work needs them. No junior hand-offs, and no unnecessary layers.
Our areas of focus
Faur Strategy
Positioning, message architecture, stakeholder strategy, communications planning.
Faur Executive
Executive communications, executive social presence, thought leadership, leadership counsel.
Faur Digital
Social and editorial strategy, digital campaigns, multi-channel content programmes.
Faur Intelligence
Communications and content audits, channel and platform evaluation, measurement, and comms AI advisory.
The fastest way to start
Book a £300 Faur Bearings consultation: 45 minutes of senior counsel, followed by an 8 to 10 page advisory note with quick wins and a clear plan.
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