Every draft checked for ethical storytelling.
Story Engine’s Ethical Storytelling Framework checks every draft as you write, so you can tell dignity-centered, solutions-oriented stories without slowing down.
Every team can start free with one interview and one piece.
Ethical Framework: 1 issue
Stories that respect the people in them.
Even careful writers slip into language that makes an organization the hero, or reduces a person to their hardest moment. Story Engine checks every draft as you write, explains anything that may not fit, and offers a better way to say it, so your stories stay true to the people who shared them.
AI that puts people first.
Good intentions aren’t enough on a deadline. The check catches what’s easy to miss.
Nine principles, every draft
Consent-based, dignity-first, asset-based framing, solutions-oriented, systemic framing, community-centered, participatory, cultural humility, and never fabricating facts or quotes.
A better way to say it
When a line doesn’t fit, the check says why and offers lines to use instead, sometimes in the storyteller’s own words.
Your team decides
Use a suggestion, ask for something different, or ignore it with a reason your whole team can see.
How the check works.
Every draft is checked
Whether Ellie wrote it or your team did, the line under the title shows how the draft does.
- Checks every draft
- No extra step to remember
Ethical Framework: 1 issue
See what to look at, and why
The check points to the sentence, says why it may not fit, and offers better lines to click and use.
- A plain reason for each issue
- Try instead: click one to use it
This leads with what Sarah lacks
“Facing eviction, Sarah is a helpless single mother of three struggling to get by.”
Try instead: “Sarah, a mother and neighborhood advocate, is organizing her building’s tenants after receiving an eviction notice.”
Fix it, or say why it’s fine
Use a suggestion, or ignore the issue with a reason. Reasons your team gives are remembered for the rest of your team’s pieces.
- Ignore with a reason your team can see
- Numbers with no source get flagged too
Included in every plan.
Ethical Storytelling Check
- A check on every draft
- 9 principles from our Ethical Storytelling Framework
- Suggested lines to use instead
- Ignore with a reason your team remembers
Free to start
Every team can start free with one interview and one piece.
Less when you pay yearly. See every plan on our homepage.
Guides to help you start.
Questions about Ethical Storytelling Check.
What is ethical storytelling?
Ethical storytelling means telling people’s stories with their consent, in a way they would be proud of: leading with their strengths, keeping the community at the center, and never inventing facts or quotes. Story Engine checks every draft against the 9 principles of its Ethical Storytelling Framework.
How is this different from a grammar checker?
A grammar checker looks at spelling and style. The Ethical Storytelling check looks at how people are portrayed: consent, dignity, asset-based framing, the community at the center, and no invented facts or quotes.
What is the Ethical Storytelling Framework?
Our guide to telling stories with consent, dignity, and the community at the center, in 9 principles. You can read it at story-engine.ai/ethical-framework.
Does the check stop us from publishing?
No. It shows what to look at. Your team decides.
Does it check drafts we write ourselves?
Yes. Every draft is checked, whoever wrote it.
Works with the rest of Story Engine.
Tell stories people are proud of.
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