Story Aligned Consulting
Choose the Right Consulting Plan to Protect Your Brand Story.
AI is helping your team create more content, more quickly than ever.
That can be a real advantage. But when content starts scaling faster than clarity, your brand can begin to lose its shape. Messages become less consistent. Voice starts to wander. The story that once made your company distinctive becomes harder to recognise from one piece of content to the next.
This is brand drift.
Sometimes the problem is diagnosis. You need to know whether drift is happening, how serious it is, and where it is showing up. That is what the Brand Drift Risk Audit is designed to do.
Sometimes the problem is identity. You need a clearer articulation of your brand story, and a stronger sense of the narrative material your content should be built on. That is what the Story Discovery Plan is for.
And sometimes the problem is implementation. You already know who you are as a brand, but you need a practical system that helps your team and your AI workflows stay aligned as content scales. That is the role of the Full Alignment Plan.
Story Aligned offers three consulting options, each designed to solve a different stage of that problem.
Brand Drift Risk Audit
US$5,750
This is the best first step for most companies.
The Brand Drift Risk Audit is a focused, outside-in diagnostic designed to identify where your content may already be drifting, flattening, or losing the qualities that make buyers trust and choose you.
This is not full story discovery. And it is not a full alignment engagement.
It is a fast, practical way to see whether AI-assisted content, multiple contributors, or scale pressure are beginning to weaken your brand story.
You’ll come away with a clear view of the risks, the most vulnerable areas, and what to do next.
What’s included:
- Review of a selected set of public-facing content assets over time
- Assessment of voice consistency, message clarity, and signs of narrative drift
- Identification of high-risk areas across channels
- Brief written findings summary
- 45-minute readout session with recommendations
The Story Discovery Plan
US$7,500
Most companies using AI to scale their content have never fully defined the story at the heart of their brand. Or they once had it — felt it, lived it, communicated it naturally — and have gradually lost sight of it under the pressure to produce more content faster.
The Story Discovery Plan changes that.
This is a focused engagement that goes deep on who you actually are as a brand. Your origin. Your beliefs. The moments that shaped you. The qualities that make your communication worth paying attention to. We gather story material from across your organisation, apply a rigorous evaluation process, and deliver a clearly written, professionally designed report — along with a structured Story Library your team can use from day one.
What’s included:
- Story Questionnaire distributed across your organisation
- SPICE Rubric™, evaluation of all story candidates
- Curated Story Library across six categories
- Full Story Discovery Report
- 45-minute readout session
The Full Alignment Plan
US$9,500
A standalone implementation engagement for companies that already have enough brand foundation in place and are ready to align Story, Narrative, and Voice into one practical system.
The Full Alignment Plan is designed to help your team create, review, and approve content with greater consistency, clarity, and confidence, especially as content volume grows and AI becomes part of the workflow. Rather than diagnosing drift or uncovering your brand story from scratch, this engagement turns the foundation you already have into a structured alignment system your team can actually use.
The engagement culminates in a practical set of working tools — including your CORE Rubric, Narrative Spine, Voice Framework, and Story Integrity Canvas™ — supported by clear review guidance and practical direction on how your team should apply the system internally after the engagement is complete.
What’s included:
- Story alignment
- CORE Rubric and Narrative Spine development
- Voice Framework development
- Story Integrity Canvas™
- Review and governance guidance
- How to apply the system internally
- 45-minute readout session
Who this is for
This work is designed for mid-market companies with growing content demands, multiple contributors, and increasing use of AI across marketing.
Especially useful for:
- CMOs and heads of marketing
- Brand and content leaders
- Teams under pressure to produce more without diluting what makes the brand distinctive
Why Story Aligned
I’ve spent 40 years helping businesses create persuasive, distinctive communication.
Now I help companies protect that distinctiveness as AI changes how content gets made.
When a brand loses its story, it does not just lose consistency. It loses the very thing that makes buyers notice, trust, and choose it.
Next Steps
Reach out to me, and we’ll set up a 30-minute Discovery Call to see my consulting service is a good fit for you, your team, and your goals.
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