Build your white paper with Shorthand

Drive more engagement, showcase your impact, and get better results for your content — no code required.

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The world's leading brands trust Shorthand

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Accessible by everyone

Make sure your white paper can be discovered and enjoyed by everyone in your audience, including those who can’t read or access PDFs.

  • Unlike PDFs, Shorthand content is search-engine friendly, meaning they are discoverable in Google.
  • Add your third-party analytics tool and get real data on how your annual report performs.
  • Ensure your white paper can be read by everyone, including those using screen readers.

Invite the entire team

White papers take a village. Shorthand provides a collaborative workspace, which means you can invite writers, designers, editors… even managers.

  • Grant access to those who need it with granular permission controls. With concurrent editing, allow multiple people to work on the same white paper at once.
  • Shorthand offers free webinars and onboarding support from our expert Customer Success team.
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Responsive visual storytelling

Build gorgeous visual stories that can be read on small phones, giant monitors, and everything in-between.

  • Delight the over 50% — and growing — of web users on mobile devices. Don’t punish your readers with pinching or zooming.
  • Your Shorthand white paper automatically works on all screen sizes, with in-app guidance on how to optimise your media.
  • Easily check content on all screen sizes prior to publication with Shorthand’s preview feature.

No developers required

Build your gorgeous white paper for the web — without writing a line of code.

  • Include breathtaking data visualisations to showcase your impact, including maps, graphs, and charts.
  • Embed over 100 third-party applications into your annual report. All it takes is cutting and pasting a URL.
  • If you have developers on hand, write custom HTML and CSS to make your annual report truly special.
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Check out these stunning reports and white papers — built with Shorthand

Penguin

Penguin

The Hamilton Commission

The Hamilton Commission

Gowling WLG

Gowling WLG

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Shorthand delivers amazing results for Honda. In our first year, our dwell time was up 85%, and the click-through rate was up 47%.

Nick Bennett, European Brand Marketing Section Manager, Honda

We compared content created with Shorthand to our regular news content and found 142% higher page views, 50% more time on page, and 7% more pages viewed per session.

Andrew Youngson, Communications Insight Manager, Imperial College London

Learn more about white papers with Shorthand

How to write a white paper

How to write a white paper

10 examples to inspire your next annual report

10 examples to inspire your next annual report

10 white papers that aren’t PDFs

10 white papers that aren’t PDFs

Ready to try the immersive white paper platform used by The World Bank, Penguin, and the University of Oxford?

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