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Shorthand dashboard and user interface - Create stunning, high-end digital stories and immersive web experiences without code.

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Shorthand

Marketing & Growth

Revenue: $1M-$10M ARR

Create stunning, high-end digital stories and immersive web experiences without code.

Overview

Shorthand is a premium digital storytelling platform used by major media organizations and brands to create visually rich, long-form web content. It allows editorial and marketing teams to build immersive experiences featuring parallax scrolling, full-screen video, and interactive elements through a no-code visual editor, bridging the gap between standard blog posts and custom-coded microsites.

Founded year: 2013

Founder: Ricky Robinson

Team size: 26-100

Popularity: Used by thousands of major brands including BBC, UNICEF, and Harvard

HQ: Brisbane, Australia

Status: Active

Funding status: Funded

Customer type: B2B

Funding: $10M Total Funding

Pricing: Subscription

Tech stack: React, Node.js, AWS

Platform: Web

Integrations: Google Analytics, HubSpot, Mailchimp, WordPress, Adobe Fonts

What it does

Provides a visual editor for creating immersive, 'scrollytelling' web stories.
Features high-performance hosting with global CDN delivery.
Enables team collaboration and shared asset libraries for consistent branding.
Supports embedding of external interactive elements (maps, charts, forms).
Offers 'Shorthand Social' for creating optimized content for social media platforms.

Who it's for

Journalists and Media Houses
Content Marketing Managers
University Communications Teams
Internal Comms Professionals

Why it works

Visual Impact: Delivers the 'wow factor' of custom-developed sites with zero technical overhead.
Engagement: Immersive layouts lead to significantly higher time-on-page compared to standard CMS articles.
SEO Friendly: Content is output as clean, crawlable HTML that performs well in search rankings.
Ease of Use: Designed specifically for writers and designers rather than developers.

Founder story

Founded in 2013 by Ricky Robinson in Brisbane, Australia. Ricky, a computer scientist, saw a gap between the beautiful, custom-coded interactive stories being made by the New York Times and the capability of the average newsroom. He built Shorthand to democratize that level of visual storytelling for every creator.

Alternatives

Comparison overview

Ceros: More complex and design-heavy; Shorthand is the specialist for long-form, editorial storytelling.
ReadyMag: Great for art direction; Shorthand offers better tools specifically for media and enterprise communications.
Shorthand is the go-to choice for brands that want to tell deep, immersive stories without hiring a developer.

Social links

Website

YouTube