Storybuilding Narrative Audit

A verdict on your story, with the evidence attached

The free Scan tells you something is wrong and roughly where. The Narrative Audit is the one that tells you what to do about it, quoting each page. Machines gather the evidence; I read it and make the call.

CHF 2’500.
Credited in full against the Narrative Charter if the verdict is that your story needs rebuilding.

Without a verdict, most teams rewrite the homepage, then rewrite it again, and nothing changes. That is the expensive way to find out where the problem was.

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Reading a company's story against the evidence

What you get

A written report, and a live session where I walk you through it and you argue with it.

The written analysis

Your story read across Recognition, Perception and Projection — what your audience can recognise, what they make of it, and whether they can picture themselves in it. Read and judged by me, quoted back with receipts rather than asserted.

The verdict

A formal call on whether your story should be sharpened or rebuilt. The Audit is the only thing I do that is allowed to use the word — the free Scan gives you a reading, and says so.

The homepage rewrite

Your story written at three altitudes, with the tagline read and the category claim examined. Not suggestions. The actual words, so you can see the difference rather than imagine it.

The channel roadmap

What your other channels — LinkedIn, your blog, your videos, wherever you publish — are doing to the story. Engagement is read as evidence, not as a scoreboard: a post that travelled tells you something about the story, not about the post.

How the machines retell you

A scored answer to whether the AI engines your buyers now ask first retell the right story about you, with the fixes attached.

SEO tools measure visibility. The Audit measures the story.

The machines gather. I decide.

Any AI will write you fifty pages about your website in an hour. They will read well and decide nothing. The Audit uses machines for what they do better than people — reading everything, forgetting nothing, flagging what does not fit — and keeps every judgment with a person: me.

What the machines do

  1. Gather

    Every page you publish, your LinkedIn and your other channels, and the answers five AI engines give when a buyer asks about your field.

  2. Cut and sort

    Your site cut into hundreds of passages, each one placed against the fifteen elements of Recognition, Perception and Projection, with a first reading and the exact quote behind it.

  3. Flag

    Anything muddied, thin or contradictory is raised for a person to look at, not smoothed over.

Here the software stops. It cannot assemble the report until a person has decided every flagged reading — it is built to refuse.

What I do

  1. Check

    I go through every flag, and agree with it or overrule it.

  2. Read

    I read the evidence element by element, write what it means for your business, and score each lens myself — before I see what the machine would have scored.

  3. Decide

    I name the story you are actually telling, give the verdict — sharpen it or rebuild it — and write the rewrite myself.

Back to the machines

  1. Assemble

    The report is built: every judgment laid out in order, in a document made to be read, with each verdict linked to the evidence under it — one click from a call to the quote it rests on.

What I do, with you

  1. Defend it

    In the live session you push back, and I justify every call with the quote on the page.

Before anything leaves, every quotation in the report is checked mechanically against the page or the answer it came from. The machine checks my receipts; I check its judgment.

The shape of the report

It reads your site the way a first-time visitor does — as a story — through three lenses: Recognition, Perception and Projection. This is the shape of the one I ran on my own company.

Each mark is one page. My own audit, August 2026: 55 pages, 4 parts, 11 chapters, 42 sub-sections. The Executive Summary opens it, before Part One.

44

published addresses read, nineteen of them in full

162

answers from four AI engines, read one at a time

13

rivals the machines name in my place

74

citations traced to pages that no longer serve the story

Part one

How a person reads you

The scorecard, the three lenses, and the homepage rewritten from what they find.

6 chapters · 29 sub-sections · 25 pages

Part two

How a machine reads you

Your buyers now ask an engine before they ask you. This part measures the answers it gives back.

1 chapter · 9 sub-sections · 11 pages

Part three

Where your story travels

The same story told across your channels — and what changes on the way.

1 chapter · 4 sub-sections · 6 pages

Part four

What to do about it

Everything above, turned into a sequence of specific changes and a final reading.

2 chapters · 7 pages

One finding, from the audit I ran on my own company

Asked for me by name, the AI engines find me in 35 of 39 answers, and describe the method accurately. Asked the question a buyer actually asks — who helps a leadership team whose story no longer fits — they return me in 10 of 162.

And the fix, in the same chapter

Every one of those 35 answers carries citations — the engines are describing what they can fetch today, not what they learned once. That makes it a web problem, fixed in weeks rather than over the slow clock of reputation: 47 of the citations point at addresses of mine that serve nothing at all, and redirecting them is a morning's work.

Every score is a reading, not a grade — the value is in the “why” beside it and the fixes it points to.

The verdict, and the two roads out of it

Most diagnostic work ends with a document and a handshake. This one ends with a decision that has somewhere to go, whichever way it falls. The verdict is mine. No model is asked to make it.

If the story holds

Sharpen it

The story is right and the telling has drifted. The rewrite and the roadmap are the work — you take them and use them, and there is nothing further to buy unless you want help keeping it true as you publish.

If the story has reached its ceiling

Rebuild it

Told perfectly, this story still would not win. The Narrative Audit then becomes the first phase of the Narrative Charter rather than a separate purchase, and the CHF 2’500 comes off the Charter price.

Which means the Narrative Audit cannot dead-end. Whichever way it falls, you leave with work you can act on, and a clear next step rather than a document.

What the Narrative Audit will not do

It will not change your story. It reads what you have, judges it, and perfects the telling of it — and if what you have is the wrong story, it says so plainly rather than polishing it.

Changing the story is the Narrative Charter, and it is a different kind of work: your team in the room, over weeks, until they own what comes out.

Knowing which of the two you need is what the Narrative Audit is for.

Telling the difference between two kinds of work

What it costs

CHF 2’500

A fixed price for a fixed deliverable — unlike the Charter, the Narrative Audit is the same piece of work whoever you are, so it carries one number and no conditions. If the verdict sends you to the Charter, the full CHF 2’500 is credited against it, so choosing the Narrative Audit first never costs you anything except the time it takes.

And if it does not work, you do not pay. That is not a figure of speech —it is written down.

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I will tell you whether the Audit is the right place to start. No pitch. No obligation.

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