Everything from one shoot

A whole storytelling operation in one place.

Ingest footage, let Cue understand it, then cut, publish, and steward — with a human approving every step.

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Capabilities

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Ingest & auto-understandTranscribe, tag, and shot-type every clip
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Editroom & ClipsOne shoot into finished cuts and social clips
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Storyboard & YouTube PackPlan the shoot, publish the upload
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Donor Snacks & StoryBoostSteward givers, amplify what moves people
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Benchmarks~5,000 nonprofit channels, tracked daily
Cue · MCP + API

Your whole story library, readable by AI agents.

StoryOS exposes an open Model Context Protocol surface, so the tools your team already uses can read and act on the story graph — human-approval gates intact.

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For the mission economy

One platform, built for your world.

StoryOS ships as a purpose-built edition for each mission vertical — same engine, tuned to how you tell your story.

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NonprofitsTurn every shoot into a year of storiesNewsroomsBuild a YouTube library that compoundsFoundationsStorytelling across every grantee, in one placePerforming ArtsTurn every performance into a season of storiesNGOsMine decades of field footageUniversitiesOne system across the institutionStudios & agenciesRun every production on one systemPublic infrastructureDocument a public space's story
MedicalComing soonPatient, research, and care storytelling
Two journalists recording an on-camera interview — a local story being captured

StoryOS · Newsroom Edition

You have the stories. Build the library.

Independent newsrooms have the reporting, the relationships, and the trust. StoryOS turns that work into video and builds your YouTube library — the back catalog that compounds for years — with a person on your team approving every cut, so your credibility comes with it.

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The opening

Your community is already on YouTube. Be the newsroom that meets them there.

More than a third of Americans now get their news from YouTube — second only to Facebook (Pew Research Center, 2025). Of the 474 independent newsrooms on the LION Publishers list, only 26% publish video actively. The audience is there; the field is wide open.

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474newsrooms studied
26%publish video actively
72%absent from active video

Trust

Video your audience can trust.

Your credibility is the whole asset. StoryOS turns your footage into broadcast-ready video — Rough Cut, EditRoom, and the finishing engine — and a person on your team approves every cut. The trust you have earned carries straight into video.

  • A person approves every published cut.
  • No synthetic anchors and no fabricated footage.
  • Provenance and consent travel with every asset.
A community member photographed with care — the real people a newsroom's video is built on

Depth

Long-form is where trust is built.

You can't earn trust in sixty seconds. The 15- and 30-minute story — the interview, the investigation, the explainer — is where your audience comes to understand you and to believe you. YouTube is built for exactly that: the most-watched streaming service on American TVs and the world's second-largest search engine, where long interviews and talk shows now top the charts.

  • Long-form video is “the next big thing for young audiences.” — Nieman Lab, 2025
  • YouTube is the most-watched streaming service on U.S. TVs. — Nielsen, 2025
  • Short clips are the on-ramp; long-form is where you keep them.
A subject mid-conversation — the kind of person whose full story only a longer video can tell

Reach

One story, told in many places at once.

Turn a single piece of reporting into a YouTube cut, Shorts, social clips, and a video embedded back in the article. The video sends readers to your writing, and your writing sends them to the video. You reported it once; StoryOS multiplies it.

  • One shoot becomes a cut, Shorts, and social clips.
  • Embed the video back in the story it came from.
  • Publish on a cadence your team can keep.

Compounding

On YouTube, every story keeps working.

A social post fades in a day. A YouTube library compounds — views, subscribers, search traffic, and ad revenue that grow for years after you publish. Every story you add makes the channel worth more, and that audience becomes members and donors.

  • A back catalog that earns long after you publish.
  • Every story indexed and discoverable in Google search.
  • Reach that compounds into members and donors.
An audience gathered for a performance — the durable, growing audience a YouTube library builds

For every size of newsroom

Three ways in.

Start where your newsroom is today and move up as your video practice grows. Every tier runs on the same StoryOS engine.

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Newsroom Lite

For a small shop getting onto video for the first time.

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Newsroom Pro

For a growing newsroom producing weekly and tracking reach.

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Newsroom Network

For a group of outlets or a foundation backing many newsrooms.

Free newsroom benchmark

See where your newsroom ranks.

Tell us your newsroom and we'll send where you stand against the 474 newsrooms on the LION list — and the cadence the leaders keep.

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