
Storybuilding
Your Brand From Their* Standpoint

Strategic Brand Storytelling
Stop talking about you.
Understand your customers, and engage them through their story.
Improve your positioning and increase conversions.
* Customer, User, Investor, Donor, Partner, Supplier, Boss
“We have big growth ambitions.
Let’s not screw it up.”

Product Launch
You are launching a new product or service. You want nail its positioning to increase your chance of success.

Merger or Pivot
Your company is undergoing a significant change, such as a pivot or a merger. You want to start this new chapter in a strong way.

Rapid Growth
Your startup is growing. You want to clarify your positioning and lay the foundation for a strong brand.

Confusing Portfolio
You offer a variety of different products and/or services. You want to define a strong unifying story.
There must be a better way to talk about the value you deliver.

Same old story
You’ve been telling the same story for too long. Crafting relatable and engaging company stories is challenging.

Unclear Proposition
Your customers just don’t get it. You don’t effectively communicate your brand values and mission.

You talk about yourself
You don’t help your customer understand why it’s relevant to them.

Corporate Speak
You have a serious corporate positioning.. People just don’t trust the usual message anymore.
Imagine the impact of your customers really understanding your value.
It’s time to tell your customer’s story – in the context of your offer.
Storytelling is the hot trend.
But it is often not much more than a fresh coat of paint over the old story structure.
Storybuilding is much more.
It is a structured, customer-centric methodology for creating a compelling story that will guide your customer along the path to a strong relationship.
Discover Storybuilding
It is based on the 3 stages of consideration that every customer goes through when discovering a new offer: Recognition, Perception, and Projection.
You can lose them at each stage. You need to bring them through at their pace.

Recognition

Perception

Projection
Storybuilding is done in four steps.
You do a deep dive into your customer, company, and offer, and with those insights, you build your customer’s story with the right information at the right time.
It will be challenging.
But that’s the whole point.
It’s worth it.

Stakeholders (customers)
We take your customers’ standpoint to analyse their aspirations, challenges, trigger moments and more.

Organisation (company)
With your customer in mind, we analyse your company and offer to surface the information they need.

Storybuilding
We decide what is important – and what is less – and build the structure of your story.

The Story
With the structure well defined, we start composing the narrative, based on your company’s persona and tone of voice.
We help your team say what matters most.
In a way your customers actually hear.

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“Our team finally speaks the same language!”
It is easy and risk-free to work with us
1
Based on a structured call, we send you a tailored proposal
2
We roll out a series of workshops with your team
3
You are energized, aligned, focused and start deploying your new story
We don’t

Create taglines without a strategy,
Design trendy logos,
Build snazzy websites,
or
Skip the tough conversations

We help you build a story that’s real, useful, and impossible to ignore
Happy Clients
We have refined and validated with dozens of companies over several years.

Speqqle
Iris Crassee, Founder & CEO
“His framework is like a fast track to understanding what they truly need”

Chilax!
Sudharshini Ariarajah & Thomas Kropf Co-founders
“…helped us think outside the box, leading to a significant refinement of our value proposition”
Working with John at Standpoint was an excellent experience. Despite being conducted mostly through video conference, the process was seamless and highly effective. John’s expertise and innovative approach on storybuilding not only challenged us but also helped us think outside the box, leading to a significant refinement of our value proposition for our product, “Chilax!”—an innovative process documentation SaaS solution.
His insights were invaluable and we very much appreciated his dedication to support us throughout. We highly recommend John and Standpoint for anyone looking to elevate their business strategy and achieve meaningful growth.

Appik
Mathilde Igier & Anthony Peguet
“helped us to clarify our ideas and objectives to the essential”
Using these storytelling methods, John helped us to clarify our ideas and objectives to the essential. This approach has had a positive impact on the way we communicate and prospect for the projects we’re passionate about. His experience and listening skills have been a great help in defining the strategies of our development agency.

MCI Group
Karen Bhavnani, Innovation and Implementation Manager
“sparked open discussion and new ways of thinking about our assumptions”
John delivered a hands-on interactive business model workshop helping us in framing our thinking and identifying and evaluating the business potential of our new initiative.
John used varied group methods that sparked open discussion and new ways of thinking about our assumptions, the marketplace and key stakeholders. We recommend John for his expertise and his detailed approach to workshop preparation and delivery to meet outcomes.

ACTAGIS
Jeff Primus, CEO
“exceeded our expectations and allowed us to significantly increase sales”
Starting ACTAGIS, we knew that digital channels are indispensable to business development. Standpoint has exceeded our expectations and allowed us to significantly increase sales.
It would be hard to find a better service!

Bluebotics
Matt Wade
“define our customers’ key challenges in a way that speaks to anyone”
John has become a valued marketing partner for BlueBotics. We worked with him to update our brand messaging in the Storybrand style. Instantly respected by our entire team, he both carefully guided and brought a fresh (but relevant) perspective to these brainstorms. He helped us to define, in particular, our customers’ key challenges in a way that speaks to anyone. We’ve since used John’s consultancy to stress-check our plans for our messaging rollout and I can imagine this won’t be the last time we enlist his expertise.

Linalis
Christophe Monnier, Directeur
“listening and delivering valuable results”
Most consultants are good at talking, John is all about listening and delivering valuable results. Our Value proposition workshop was straight to the point and allowed the management team to agree on common goals.
Later, we contacted Standpoint to help us with our website copywriting and content creation. Once again, John delivered great content in no time.

1959 Advisors
Serge Ledermann
“Returns from customers and prospects are excellent and business is boosted”
John quickly understood the needs of my company: understanding the business model, analyzing the profile and needs of customers, the quality of the message, and sensitivity to the “touch and feel” of the digital vector. Returns from customers and prospects are excellent and business is boosted.

TieTalent
Jovana Rotula, Marc Trillou, Founders
“coming up with creative solutions”
John is a great coach for our team. He helped us on the general strategy, digital marketing and communication areas. Always thinking outside of the box, listening carefully to our challenges and coming up with creative solutions. John is not a talker, he is a real doer.

Gmelius
Florian Bersier, Founder
“consolidate its market approach”
Coaching a startup is hard! John quickly found a way to help Gmelius consolidate its market approach and processes in various fields going from marketing to human resources. He is a very smart and committed person who is always ready to lend a sympathetic ear.

Quantreex
Rahman Belyan
“offers simple, pragmatic and clear advice”
John always tries to understand even the most complex projects. He identifies with the client and offers simple, pragmatic and clear advice. Sensitive and human, he offers a new perspective on the good development of the product. Thank you.

ENVOY
CEO
“shepherded me to a place where my message is a lot clearer”
I’m pleased to have worked with John at Standpoint on my storytelling and strategic positioning.
We conducted multiple sessions via video and that format worked above expectation, really powerful and efficient use of time.
John went deep into my companies situation. He clearly understands tech, product and the business challenges that a company like mine faces.
John then has a real knack for synthesising this context, applying a couple of really powerful frameworks, and has shepherded me to a place where my message is a lot clearer and customers will find it a lot easier to listen….an easy story is a better story! Thank you John, I look forward to working with you again.

Avoid

Inconsistent messages

Constantly reinventing your strategy

Customers misunderstanding your offer or positioning
We deliver more than a powerful story

Marketing Foundation
This story, carefully crafted around the value you deliver to your customers, can become the foundation of all your marketing.

Enhanced trust

Increased Focus

Team Alignment
How should we work together?

Narrative Diagnostic: Assess your current story
Rapidly assess how the organization’s story is told today, where it fragments, and where gaps exist.
Identify why campaigns fail to connect, helping teams avoid wasted spend and missed engagement.

Story Spine Workshop: Build the company's story
Define the company’s story spine that aligns leadership and sets the foundation for all messaging.
Build the shared narrative that improves targeting, sharpen positioning, and create the foundation for stronger client engagement, which improves downstream conversion.

Narrative Readiness Pack: Turn the story into a plan
Translate the strategic narrative into a usable guide for teams and partners.
Ensure agencies and sales/marketing teams can engage prospects consistently, improving first-touch connection and downstream conversion.
Or start small… for free.
Get a fresh pair of eyes on your brand.
Choose a free session.

Recognition
In just one hour, you’ll see your audience with new eyes—and walk away with 2–3 story shifts that make your message resonate instantly.

Different Category
In this session, we’ll uncover what truly sets your brand apart—whether you’re stuck in the wrong category or ready to create a new one.

Projection
We’ll test whether your customers can actually picture themselves in your brand’s story—or if it’s still too abstract to stick.