The simplest way to craft

captivating visual stories

How you tell your story matters. Deliver up to 10x higher engagement with Shorthand, the beautifully simple story design platform for the web.

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Loved by the world's most iconic brands

A proven brand
publishing platform

Shorthand powers the feature articles, digital magazines, proposals, internal comms, and annual reports of the world's leading brands, publications, and media companies. Whatever story you're telling — you're in great company.

Publish anywhere
on the web

Shorthand stories are beautiful in every browser on desktop and mobile. Publish to any web address, using AWS hosting, your CMS, Shorthand hosting, or direct embedding into your existing website. Or secure your stories with private and password-protected publishing.

Measure & move
your metrics

The most engaging stories on the web are built with Shorthand. Our customers see up to 10x higher engagement with their Shorthand stories than content created with their CMS.

With built-in, cookieless analytics, it's easy to measure results. Or, drop in your existing analytics tracking code, tag managers, and ad pixels — so you always know how you're performing.

Loved by the whole team

Streamline your workflows, and bring your editors, designers, and developers together in one collaborative workspace. Beautiful templates and powerful storytelling features free up your team to focus on what matters.

Scalable, on-brand
publishing

Scale your output across one team or your entire organisation — all while keeping everything beautifully on-brand. Create visual consistency by incorporating your logos, colours, fonts, and styles into a handcrafted custom theme.

Creative teams love using Shorthand

What attracted us to the tool was how easy it is to use. We wanted to be able to take locally produced content lying in front of us and have it on the web within 15 minutes.

Nick Bennett, Honda

What attracted us to the tool was how easy it is to use. We wanted to be able to take locally produced content lying in front of us and have it on the web within 15 minutes.

Nick Bennett, Honda


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Secure, accessible,
and enterprise-ready

With ISO 27001 certification and SOC 2 compliance, Shorthand is a proven enterprise solution and a trusted partner for customers in government and regulated industries.

We are also experienced in partnering with customers to help them meet and exceed modern web accessibility standards.

Code or no-code:
it's your choice

Shorthand provides a simple drag-and-drop editing experience. With as much or as little customisation as you like, Shorthand is a code-optional publishing platform. All business and enterprise plans come bundled with full access to custom CSS, HTML and JavaScript to give you complete control.

Get inspired

See how some of the world's most recognised brands use Shorthand to build engaging visual stories.