Built on scenarioDNA’s Culture Mapping methodology, StoryEngine helps researchers examine relationships among signals, cultural codes, actors, tensions, competing interpretations, and possible futures while preserving evidence and researcher judgment.
StoryEngine is scenarioDNA’s AI-assisted cultural research and intelligence platform for semiotics, narrative analysis, cultural foresight, and structured inquiry.
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Three toolkits. Nine assistants.
StoryEngine Sandbox is scenarioDNA’s AI-Assisted modular intelligence platform for cultural research and strategic foresight. It helps researchers structure relationships among signals, codes, actors, tensions, and competing interpretations before moving toward strategic conclusions. Like knolling for research, it arranges disparate material into a working structure so patterns and contradictions become easier to examine. It does not replace evidence gathering or researcher judgment. It provides a structural and relational layer for working with them.
Custom Skills for ChatGPT Plus, Claude and Perplexity Computer extend the research process across evidence gathering, analysis and internal workflows. Subscribers are provided these skill plugins after sign-up.
Data and chat histories remain private per subscriber. Subject to platform terms, usage limits, and fair use. Note: Accessing StoryEngine is a two-step process: complete subscription, then create account to enter.
If you are an academic or public-interest researcher you may qualify to join our StoryEngine Research Circle to access these toolkits and plugins for free. Learn more here.
Subscription gives each user access to all nine assistants and custom skills for ChatGPT, Claude and Perplexity Computer.
The Intelligence Toolkit includes Cultural Intelligence Primer, Diagnostic Assistant, and Contrarian Assistant. They help researchers frame a question, distinguish evidence from assumptions, identify hidden pressures, and challenge premature conclusions.
The Innovation Toolkit includes Brand Decoder, Packaging Analysis Assistant, and Regional Codes Assistant. They examine how identity, semiotic codes, category expectations, and place-based meanings shape opportunities for brands, products, and experiences.
The Narrative Toolkit includes Culture Mapping Assistant, Speculative Futures Assistant, and Crisis Simulator. They examine how meanings interact, migrate, and become narratives, scenarios, risks, future possibilities, and signals of critical cultural change before they harden.
Our new custom Skills for ChatGPT Business, Claude and Perplexity Computer extend that structure into the rest of the research process. A StoryEngine analysis can move into deeper evidence gathering and comparison, then into stress testing and synthesis. The logic that produced the analysis governs each of those steps, and it holds in all three environments even though the models behave differently.
Used in scenarioDNA’s Cultural Research Practice
StoryEngine extends methods scenarioDNA uses in cultural intelligence, semiotics, narrative analysis, and strategic foresight. We use the same research logic in commissioned work to examine changing cultural codes, emerging narratives, category shifts, and possible futures.