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Language has an operating system

It's called Narrative OS™. We build yours.

It's called Narrative OS.
We build yours.

See how it works

What language actually does

for founders, CEOs, and investment funds

Storied is a narrative infrastructure company. We build the coherence layer beneath your strategy, your fundraise, and the launch. Ownable language systems that turn your words into a governed code base for both humans and agentic AI. The one asset a competitor can't copy, because they can't see it.

Get investment, buy-in, and adoption. Storied advises founders, CEOs, and investment funds at moments of inflection: a new round, a new strategy, and a new phase shift. Our methods have sold billion-dollar initiatives, driven adoption across 100M+ users, and carried teams through the change that usually breaks them.

Michael Margolis
Narrative Architect
VC Operating Partner

NARRATIVE ADVISOR, META, 14 DIVISIONS, 2016-2023

FACULTY, GOOGLE UX LEADERSHIP PROGRAM, 2021-2023

WORKED WITH 350+ ORGANIZATIONS SINCE 2002

Michael Margolis makes a company's language as deliberate as its code.

He's the CEO and founder of Storied. Over 20 years, he's built strategic narratives behind major capital raises, differentiation, and change transformation. In addition, Michael also serves as an Operating Partner, Narrative at Veridical Ventures, an early-stage B2B venture fund. For seven years Michael was forward-deployed inside Facebook, now Meta, where he crafted investment narratives and product narratives for how billions of humans tell their story.

Today, Michael advises institutions such as the Milken Institute and the Rubin Museum of Himalayan Art. As an educator, Michael has delivered 500+ keynotes and trainings across 18 countries, and wrote the best-seller Story 10x: Turn the Impossible into the Inevitable.

Trained in cultural anthropology and comparative religion, Michael is a Buddhist and student of the dharma. As a techno-optimist he builds protocols that give humans and AI shared coherence. Michael lives in Los Angeles with his wife and two young daughters.

Michael Margolis
Narrative Architect
VC Operating Partner

NARRATIVE ADVISOR, META, 14 DIVISIONS, 2016-2023

FACULTY, GOOGLE UX LEADERSHIP PROGRAM, 2021-2023

WORKED WITH 350+ ORGANIZATIONS SINCE 2002

Michael Margolis makes a company's language as deliberate as its code.

He's the CEO and founder of Storied. Over 20 years, he's built strategic narratives behind major capital raises, differentiation, and change transformation. In addition, Michael also serves as an Operating Partner, Narrative at Veridical Ventures, an early-stage B2B venture fund. For seven years Michael was forward-deployed inside Facebook, now Meta, where he crafted investment narratives and product narratives for how billions of humans tell their story.

Today, Michael advises institutions such as the Milken Institute and the Rubin Museum of Himalayan Art. As an educator, Michael has delivered 500+ keynotes and trainings across 18 countries, and wrote the best-seller Story 10x: Turn the Impossible into the Inevitable.

Trained in cultural anthropology and comparative religion, Michael is a Buddhist and student of the dharma. As a techno-optimist he builds protocols that give humans and AI shared coherence. Michael lives in Los Angeles with his wife and two young daughters.

Michael Margolis
Narrative Architect
VC Operating Partner

NARRATIVE ADVISOR, META, 14 DIVISIONS, 2016-2023

FACULTY, GOOGLE UX LEADERSHIP PROGRAM, 2021-2023

WORKED WITH 350+ ORGANIZATIONS SINCE 2002

Michael Margolis makes a company's language as deliberate as its code.

He's the CEO and founder of Storied. Over 20 years, he's built strategic narratives behind major capital raises, differentiation, and change transformation. In addition, Michael also serves as an Operating Partner, Narrative at Veridical Ventures, an early-stage B2B venture fund. For seven years Michael was forward-deployed inside Facebook, now Meta, where he crafted investment narratives and product narratives for how billions of humans tell their story.

Today, Michael advises institutions such as the Milken Institute and the Rubin Museum of Himalayan Art. As an educator, Michael has delivered 500+ keynotes and trainings across 18 countries, and wrote the best-seller Story 10x: Turn the Impossible into the Inevitable.

Trained in cultural anthropology and comparative religion, Michael is a Buddhist and student of the dharma. As a techno-optimist he builds protocols that give humans and AI shared coherence. Michael lives in Los Angeles with his wife and two young daughters.

Narrative OS™

Language is the new code

A narrative protocol for the language your company and agents run on. We build and install it with you, then hand you the keys: governed, version-controlled, and extensible across every strategic output that moves the business.

Schemas

First principles, beliefs, and assumptions, what your AI reads and encodes before it writes.

Schemas

First principles, beliefs, and assumptions, what your AI reads and encodes before it writes.

Outputs

Make it canonical. Every deck, pitch, and town hall inherits the same message.

Outputs

Make it canonical. Every deck, pitch, and town hall inherits the same message.

Governance

One language across the organization: legible, durable, and defensible as you scale.

Governance

One language across the organization: legible, durable, and defensible as you scale.

AI amplifies clarity. AI amplifies confusion. It chews through any language you leave unattended.

AI amplifies clarity. AI amplifies confusion. It chews through any language you leave unattended.

Two decades into

a fifty-year project

Words create worlds. At enterprise scale, someone has to build them with purpose.

Storied exists to establish narrative as an operating system: for companies, industries, and every quadrant of life. The decades ahead bring problems that are ambiguous, shared, and exponential. The work that scales disruptive technologies and aligns executive leaders also applies to civic infrastructure.

Asymmetrical bets on structural reform. Climate tech policy for frontier science. Lifestyle medicine as a medical movement. The future of public libraries in the digital age. Narrative Intelligence in the age of AI.

24 years in, and the back half is the point. The challenge at the institutional level is the same challenge at the planetary scale. How do you coordinate belief across groups that don't share a common language? That's the work. That's why we've built Storied AI and Narrative OS. The thesis is that words are the new code, and that AI makes language computable at the enterprise scale. Why?

Because the stories we tell become the future we get.

  • "Michael is my 'Ambassador to Kwan'. As a trusted advisor, he's helped 4x our growth."

    Jeff Manson,

    CEO

  • "This created massive leverage for my teams. Captured hearts and minds, with coherence that scaled."

    Morgan Brown,

    VP of Growth Marketing

  • "You're like a high-priest rabbi. Exactly the group therapy that our executive team needed."

    Michael Hudes,

    CEO, LG Ads

  • "Michael is my 'Ambassador to Kwan'. As a trusted advisor, he's helped 4x our company's growth."

    Jeff Manson,

    CEO

  • "This created massive leverage for my teams at Shopify and Meta. Captured hearts and minds. Coherence that scales."

    Morgan Brown,

    VP of Growth Marketing

  • "You're like a high-priest rabbi. Exactly the group therapy that our executive team needed."

    Michael Hudes,

    CEO, LG Ads

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