If you’re a lifelong learner looking to expand your writing craft, this app will feel like home.

The experience is intentionally designed to be accessible and engaging for everyone whether you’re a CEO, doctor, lawyer, teacher, founder, nonprofit leader, student—or none of those things at all.

People are multifaceted and don’t fit into a box that’s easy to label. But there’s still so much value in being able to learn from each other. That’s the point of what you’ll find here.

We’re building a supportive, inclusive space where people grow through diverse perspectives. If you value positive, constructive discourse, you’ve found the right place on the internet.

The app also works beautifully for friends, families, and teammates who want to write together.

Designing for true global inclusion means being thoughtful about pricing in a world shaped by deep inequities.

So, we’ve created a mix of free and paid offerings. Over time, should funding permit, we hope to be able to offer scholarships.

We regularly seek community input on pricing to help ensure it remains accessible, fair, and grounded in real needs.

Over time, should funding permit, we hope to be able to offer scholarships.

You’ll find this app to be unlike any classroom or workshop where you may have learned writing in the past. There is no pressure, and you will never be held to any standard.

Sessions are short and easy to fit into real life. There’s no pressure to perform. There are no endless feeds. There’s nobody trying to confine your thinking to a small box.

You’re in an environment tailored to your success.

We will never compete for your attention. We listen closely to your feedback to adapt and build upon the experience.

Kind of. But probably not what you’re used to.

Our community operates more like a newsroom or bulletin board than a traditional social network. Think: Early internet, before real-time algorithms and ad supported business models started clamoring for your attention.

You’ll be able to share your writing with our team through a form, which we will curate and publish.

This approach is meant to help slow down the pace of information while also ensuring a degree of moderation, trust, and safety.

We are a small, family-owned publishing business run by husband-and-wife team, Justin & Ritika Strauss.

We’ve built a braintrust of fellow business owners.

About Ritika

For over 15 years, Ritika has worked as a writer, editor, publishing consultant, corporate trainer, and writing coach alongside executives, technology companies, investors, and global media outlets.

More recently, with her graduate training in experimental design, she has found her skills to be directly transferrable to responsible AI implementation, working with ahead-of-the-curve organizations to establish new precedents.

Her work has been featured in and cited by Fast Company, Forbes, UNESCO, The Globe and Mail, Investopedia, The Next Web, and other prominent media.

Beneath all of that has always been one simple dream: to create a writing school that welcomes many diverse perspective in a safe, collaborative, and thoughtful space. As a child, she was a martial arts student and teacher, and she benefitted highly from training in a dojo where many generations came together to practice.

Ritika, along with her co-founder Justin, have distilled years of curriculum-building research and creative practice into toolkits that people not only use but enjoy.

What motivates her, ultimately, is the desire for a more inclusive financial system, one that makes upwards economic mobility, multigenerational prosperity, and a stable financial existence a reality for more people around the world.

About Justin

An engineer and AI systems developer in his professional life, Justin as more than 20 years of experience building technical architecture in the discipline of Natural Language Processing (NLP).

Before he found this path for himself, he was an award-winning photographer and creator of Poetry Vault, a social network that he built in the early 2000s—all before before platforms like Facebook, MySpace, Instagram, and Twitter came into existence.

Before co-founding Storyhackers, Justin was an epidemiologist and executive-track data scientist for two of the largest healthcare organizations in the United States. During this time, he developed a natural language processing algorithm to identify and classify cancers and other abnormal findings within clinical text reports. His other areas of storytelling expertise include market research, geospatial analysis, product development, and multimedia production.

He believes in creating technology that advances societal progress.

Yes. We work with many different types of organizations.

You can learn more about our services here.

You can book an editorial coaching session with our team within our app.

We are building an expansive library of writing courses, in partnership with extremely talented practitioners and teachers globally.

We are open to funds via grants and other forms of investment to accelerate this vision.

If you resonate with what we’re building, we are open to hearing from you.

We are on the lookout for collaborators and hiring intermittently, as funding permits.

If you’re interested in potentially becoming an instructor or editorial strategist on our platform, please fill out this form here.