Storify Studio — The one true story only you could tell

First, here's how the market actually hears you. Most of what your company says about itself sounds about like this:

"A full-service, established firm. Certified, trusted, and committed to delivering excellence and real results for every client we serve."

Every word is true. Read it once more, slowly, and notice what you feel. → Nothing.

That blankness has been doing its quiet work for years: in every inbox that didn't open, every proposal that went cold. Here it is.

Twelve people committed to delivering what they sold you. It's late, and they are still working while the other companies head home, refining and preparing to deliver their best, because it's crucial to your company's success. They took the job everyone else called impossible. Not because they needed it, but because walking away from it felt worse.

Same firm. Same facts. You leaned in a little on that one, and you don't even work there.

So the only question that matters: which version have your customers been getting?
You already know. And you just felt, in your own chest, that it could be the other one.

The Way Out

You're not like your competitors, even though you may sound like it. Your story is just untold.

That feeling can be built on purpose, for every customer you have. You don't get a fill-in-the-blank template here. You get the one true story only your company could tell: excavated from how you already work, and engineered to hold its shape everywhere you put it. (How a full studio's worth of craft gets delivered without a full studio's overhead is our problem to solve, not yours.)

The way out was never a better argument. You cannot out-argue indifference, and you cannot buy your way past it with a louder version of the same silence. The way out is to let people feel the one true story that's already yours.

How It's Built

Excavated, then engineered.

Your story isn't invented and it isn't borrowed. It's excavated from who you already are, engineered to McKee/Storynomics structure, and built for your own customers to retell. Six disciplines, one story.

Discovery

We excavate the true story buried under your features, and find the moment your customer's life actually turns.

Architecture

We build the structural spine, with your customer cast as the hero and your company as the guide who helps them win.

Positioning

We sharpen the story into the one only you could tell, a line no competitor can copy.

Resonance

We pressure-test it against how attention, trust, and memory actually form. The part a template can't do.

The Build

We render the story across your site, deck, and channels, every word traceable to one idea.

The Quality Gate

Nothing ships until it passes the one law we never break: show, don't argue, that the story works.

The Investment

Come to evaluate us. Leave having felt it.

Begin with the feeling, about your own company, with your name on it, or run the full engine. Every door leads to the same place: a brand built on a story worth telling.

Start here

$500One-time, felt on you

The Story Audit

Send us how you talk about your company today: the site copy, the deck, the boilerplate you've read a thousand times. Then we put the proof where no one else will, on your own company, in one sitting. What that's like, we won't spoil. You leave with a story-sketch of your real company, on paper, yours to keep either way.

The full build

From $5,000Complete engagement

The Story Playbook

All six disciplines, start to finish, delivered as the Story Playbook: the one true story only your company could tell, its positioning, your voice, and every rendered asset, in your team's hands and built for your own customers to retell.

Keep it moving

$1,000Per month · 5 hours

Ongoing Assets

Once your story is built, keep telling it. Five hours of rendered content each month, every piece one more expression of your one true story; additional hours at $250/hr, always with your approval first.

Delivery, plainly: a 3-day Audit and a 2-week Playbook, conditional on your responsiveness, from a studio that takes a limited number of engagements each month.

Book the $500 Story Audit

Questions first? ken@storifystudio.com

The Bookshelf

Stories worth telling — ours, and our clients'.

Storify is built by a storyteller, and it builds storytellers. Below: the book behind the firm's own thinking, and the fiction we've produced for the authors we work with.

From the Founder

Senior Housing: The AI Gap

LITT Imprint · by Ken Leatherman

A practical playbook for senior-housing leaders closing the gap between AI promise and real implementation — and the thinking behind the studio's craft.

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Produced by Storify · Author Beatrice Black

The Haunting of Agnes Hayes

Fiction · Beatrice Black

A haunting tale of secrets that refuse to stay buried — produced and brought to publication by Storify Studio.

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Arseways: An Irish Tale of Sins, Scams & Secrets

Fiction · Beatrice Black

A wry, twisting Irish story of cons, characters, and things left unsaid — produced by Storify Studio.

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My Friend the Scarecrow

Fiction · Beatrice Black

A warm, gentle story about friendship found in an unexpected place — produced by Storify Studio.

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Client Story

"When I saw Storify bring my books to life — the covers, the editing, the book videos — I realized a dream."

— Beatrice Black, author of The Haunting of Agnes Hayes, Arseways, and My Friend the Scarecrow

The Podcast

Leadership in Tough Times

Conversations on leading through change, hosted by Ken Leatherman with Daniel Terry and Larry Briggs.

The Studio

Boutique by design.

Storify Studio is a brand-story studio in Newport, Oregon. We excavate the one true story only your company could tell, from who you already are, never from a template. We engineer it to McKee/Storynomics structure and build it so your own customers retell it. Word of mouth built your business; a true story is how it travels farther than your name.

Behind every engagement stand six disciplines, each with its own standard and its own veto. You work with one studio; your story clears the whole craft. And because trust is earned in the right order: no retainer before evidence. The fixed-price $500 Story Audit puts the proof on your own company first. Then you decide.

Newport, Oregon · storifystudio.com

About

Why we only ever tell true stories.

Before there was a studio, there were thirty years of rooms where the stakes were real. Storify's founder, Ken Leatherman, spent them in risk and operations, and since 2007 inside the senior-housing world, sitting with the people who run skilled nursing, assisted living, memory care, and in-home care through the seasons that decide whether an organization is still standing in the spring.

For years he walked those operators through the risk (the exposure, the claims, the numbers that should have kept them up at night) and watched it move no one. So one year he stopped explaining and built them a mock trial instead: a real courtroom, a judge, a jury, three days, an operator on the stand. Then he watched twelve ordinary people decide a life, and barely touch the medicine the whole room had braced to defend. They asked who'd been hurt. They asked about the family. He never got over it.

When he finally started Storify, it was to chase that same thing on purpose. So when a firm of engineers told us, flatly, that they had no personality (no story, just good work and a website nobody read) we didn't believe them. We stopped asking them to sell. We asked them to talk about the work they couldn't stand to do badly: the job everyone else called impossible, the thing they're still refining after every other company has gone home. Then we cut it together and played it back. The room went quiet. One of them said: I didn't know that's what we sounded like.

That was the moment. Not a number, a feeling, moving through a room of people who'd been certain they were boring. We've been after it ever since: the moment a company that was sure it had no story finally sees its own, and can't un-see it.

Not an agency with a services menu. A brand-story studio with a single craft: finding the one true story only your company could tell, and engineering it to structure so it holds its shape everywhere you put it. But the method is only ever the means. The moment is the point.

You probably arrived sure you're the exception, that story is for consumer brands and ad people, and your work should just speak for itself. The engineers were sure of it too. They were wrong in the best possible way. So, we'd wager, are you.

Book the $500 Story Audit Find out whether you're the exception. (You're not.)

Author · Founder of Storify Studio · Creator of the LITT Framework · Host, Leadership in Tough Times