Shorthand About Us

Shorthand is the platform that brands, publishers, non-profits, universities and others use to create the world's most engaging stories, annual reports, case studies and other content.

Trusted by everyone from the BBC to Business Insider, Manchester City to Honda, Amnesty International to the Red Cross, and Cambridge to Harvard, Shorthand elevates your stories and communications from the everyday to the exceptional.

Committed to the exceptional

With best-in-the-business time on page metrics, as measured by Chartbeat and our own customers, Shorthand stories are arguably the most engaging content type on the web today. Our product is thoughtfully designed to enable publishers, agencies, corporate communications teams and others to create memorable reading experiences that audiences can’t ignore, and that move them to action.

We promote style in support of substance, gravitas above gimmickry. We encourage our customers to strive for the extraordinary, and we support them in that pursuit.

Our beliefs & mission

We believe a world informed by powerful stories and linked by compelling everyday communications is a smarter, more progressive, more resilient world. So our mission is to connect the world's iconic brands to their audiences, their people and each other. We achieve this mission by undertaking extreme web innovation to create the leading platform for epic storytelling and collaboration for digital publishing teams.