Your StoryLab Journey

HERE'S EXACTLY
WHAT HAPPENS
NEXT.

Every step from agreement to installation — what to expect, when it happens, and who handles it.

Welcome
01
Welcome
Day 1
01
KickoffDay 1

Agreement signed — you're live

Your StoryLab engagement is now active. Within hours you'll receive a personal welcome from Zach, a 3-minute Loom walkthrough of the full process, and links to get started.

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Setup
02
Setup
Days 2–7
02
Action requiredDays 2–3

Onboarding form

Complete a quick Notion form capturing the story you want to tell, your customer's details, project timeline, and key messages. Takes about 5 minutes.

Action required
03
Action requiredDays 3–5

Brand guidelines

Share your logo, colors, and fonts via a separate form sent 24–48 hours after onboarding. Upload files or paste links from Drive or Dropbox — whatever's easiest.

Action required
04
MeetingDays 3–7

Story Strategy Meeting

We review the customer you've chosen, lock in the story angle, and map out what we're capturing on shoot day. You leave with a copy-paste email to invite your customer.

Together
Customer Activation
03
Customer Activation
Days 7–18
05
Action requiredDays 7–10

Customer invitation sent

You send your customer the invitation email — we write it for you. A one-pager explains what the shoot is, why it matters, and what they're committing to.

Action required
06
MeetingDays 10–14

Story Confirmation Meeting

Once your customer confirms, we lock the shoot date, location, and logistics. From here Tale manages all customer coordination directly.

Together
07
Tale handles thisDays 14–18

Pre-interview call

Tale connects with your customer to uncover the full story — the before, the after, the transformation. This shapes every question we ask on camera and ensures nothing important gets missed.

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Production
04
Production
Shoot day
08
ProductionShoot day

Shoot day

One day on location. 4–6 hours. We handle direction, lighting, camera, and audio. Your customer shows up and tells their story. You're welcome to be there — but you don't need to be.

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Post-Production
05
Post-Production
21 days
09
Tale handles this21 days

21-day editing window

Our editors build everything from the raw footage — hero film, 6 ad cuts, 15 editorial images, 4 objection-crusher clips, 8 static ad creatives, 1 carousel, 5 email sequences, 1 blog page, and your deployment playbook.

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10
DeliveryDay 21

Assets delivered

All 25+ production-ready assets land in your Dropbox or Google Drive. Every piece is pre-formatted for its channel — drag, drop, and deploy. Nothing needs to be resized or reformatted.

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Installation
06
Installation
Week 4+
11
Workshop~Week 4

Story Install Workshop

A live session mapping every asset to every channel — paid ads, sales deck, landing page, email, LinkedIn, retargeting. You leave with a specific deployment plan for your business.

Together
12
Your turn30 days

30-day deployment window

Deploy your assets across at least 4 channels within 30 days using the playbook. Implementation guarantee is in effect: if it's not live in 4+ places, we build new assets until it is.

Action required
YOU'RE DEPLOYED.

Implementation guarantee in effect. Questions at any point — reach out directly.

zach@taleagency.com