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beautiful brand publishing

Shorthand is the owned media platform that engages and grows your audience with stunning digital publications using a fraction of the resources of other approaches.

Works with your existing content platforms

Shorthand integrates with your existing creative workflows and tech stack. Bring the power and simplicity of Shorthand to your CMS — WordPress, Drupal, Sitecore, AEM or other platforms — to delight your audience and your team.

Whether your Shorthand content is hosted by us or by you, our team of experts will work with you to create a trusted experience for your audience that leverages your existing SEO and domain authority.

Reduces your reliance on technical resources

Shorthand empowers your team to create high-end visual stories, freeing up your web designers and developers to work on bespoke projects. Shorthand ensures your digital publications render beautifully on any device, leaving your team to focus on crafting the narrative and conjuring the emotion that will captivate your audience.

Complies with industry standards

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.

Shorthand complies with the latest web accessibility standards, and our team of experts will help you ensure that your brand publications are accessible to all audiences.

Scales to the
largest enterprises

Shorthand is deployed at scale by some of the world's largest brands and institutions. Organise your users and stories using workspaces and teams. Easily assign roles and permissions. Shorthand supports SAML, SSO and SCIM for centralised user management.

Keeps your content effortlessly on-brand

Shorthand takes the pain out of keeping all of your stories and reports, across every team, beautifully on-brand. Create visual consistency by incorporating your logos, colours, fonts, and styles into a handcrafted custom theme.

Iconic brands and institutions trust Shorthand

The first story we did was on The Lancet, which is one of our publications. After posting that story, we immediately saw a threefold increase in the number of reads and a 50% increase in dwell time.

Paul Abrahams, RELX

The first story we did was on The Lancet, which is one of our publications. After posting that story, we immediately saw a threefold increase in the number of reads and a 50% increase in dwell time.

Paul Abrahams, RELX


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

Beautifully simple
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