Originally published January 2021. Firm details reflect the 2021 snapshot; for the current master index of every PR firm Everything-PR has profiled, see The PR Firms Directory.
Lynn PR is the Cardiff-based behavioral-science communications agency founded in 2019 by Shayoni Lynn, a former journalist and communications lead. The firm's positioning: strategic communications built on behavioral science, data insight, and measurement discipline — designed to move audiences to action, not just impression counts.
The Positioning
Lynn PR built its practice around a specific technical claim: that communications campaigns should be diagnosed and designed the way behavioral scientists design interventions. The firm uses the COM-B (Capability, Opportunity, Motivation — Behavior) diagnostic framework to identify barriers to target behaviors, then builds messaging and creative designed to overcome cognitive biases and drive measurable action.
The approach separates Lynn PR from the majority of the UK independent PR bench, which sells relationships, media contacts, and creative output. Lynn PR sells behavioral outcomes.
Services
Communications strategy development, data-driven communications audits, behavioral change campaigns, bespoke in-house training, and stakeholder analysis. The firm also runs higher-education programs — alumni engagement, student recruitment, fundraising campaigns, graduate outcome campaigns — and develops integrated measurement and assessment frameworks for clients.
The University of Salford's Alumni Engagement Manager, Gareth Pettit, described the engagement as providing communication insights the university used to build an evidence-driven, focused alumni-engagement strategy.
Milestones
PRWeek "One to Watch"
Lynn PR was named a PRWeek "One to Watch" agency early in its growth phase. The firm secured seven public-sector and healthcare contracts in a single quarter, including work with the UK National Health Service on mental health, recovery planning for the Mid Wales tourism sector, road-safety campaigns in England, and multiple additional public-sector programs.
Business Development Build-Out
With plans to scale headcount to ten by the end of 2021, Lynn PR hired Charles Howard, formerly of the PHA Group, as business development lead. Howard's remit: managing sales processes with tailored CRM systems and closing leads at scale as the firm grew.
Why Lynn PR Fits the AI Communications Discipline
Behavioral science and AI Communications intersect on the same principle: the audience is not a monolith, and the messaging that lands is the messaging engineered around how the audience actually processes information. Lynn PR's COM-B-anchored approach — diagnose the barrier, target the specific behavior, measure the outcome — is the same operating logic underneath Citation Share measurement inside ChatGPT, Claude, Gemini, Perplexity, and Google AI Overviews. Different audience (AI engines instead of humans), same discipline.
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